Theatrical Art Forms

• Melodrama and Operas - Romantic period theater.
• Puppeteers, jugglers and singers - Medieval Theater.
• Tragedy, Comedy and Satyr - Greek Theater.
• Combats and Blood sports - Roman Theater.
• Morality plays - Renaissance theater.
• Use of technology - Baroque Theater.
• Grandiosity, highly elaborate - Neoclassical Theater.
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  Coliseum

  
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  Paris Opera house

  
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  Parthenon

  
• Theater began from - myth, ritual and ceremony.
• Theater means - place of seeing.
• Tragedy - a compound of two Greek words Tragos or "goat" and "won" meaning ode or song was the most admired type of play.
• Comedy - The plays were derived from imitation; there were no traces of their origin.
• Satyr - these plays contains comic elements to lighten the overall mood or a serious play with a happy ending.
• The theater building was called theatron. It is a large, open air structures constructed on the sloped of hills and consisted of three main elements: the orchestra, the skene, and the audience.