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The Theater of Epidaurus has 14,000 seats.

The theater mentioned above is actually the largest ancient theatre of the world.

Throughout the theater, music that was played was actually used for healing therapy.

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Plays that included rulers became controversial after the Peloponnesian War.

Menander, a Greek dramatist, created over 100 plays for New Comedy.

Flute music was super popular during this time to have in the plays.

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Wu Priests staged elaborate seances and some were seen as court performances.

The Han Dynasty (206 BCE) had performances that were more  widespread.

The Emperor of the Han Dynasty loved theatre so much, he held a festival with thousands of performers.

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Japanese Theatre- 14th Century to Present

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Japanese Theatre- 14th Century to Present

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The main type of theatre for Japan was Noh. Its origins started in the 14th century, and Noh is plays that were usually 10 pages long and they took 30 minutes to an hour.

Noh is also performed outdoors, so roofs were needed for performances.

For non-mythical origins, like the sun god was for theatre, there was sacred dance which was apart of Shintoism, the traditional religion for Japan.

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Sanskrit (India/Hindu) Theatre- 1500 BCE to Present

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Sanskrit (India/Hindu) Theatre- 1500 BCE to Present

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Going back to its origins, this was actually the first type of theatre in all of the world to allow women to perform.

The myth surrounding this is that the God, Brahma, created theatre as a religious message to the people.

The Golden Age for Sanskrit Theatre is during the 4th and 5th centuries, during the Gupta Dynasty.

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Middle Ages (Dark) Theatre- 1210 to Present

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Middle Ages (Dark) Theatre- 1210 to Present

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The two types of plays during the Middle Ages were Mystery Plays and Morality Plays, and these were the first European plays to unite religious and secular life.

The Clergy tried to make sure plays weren’t performed outside.

Cycle plays are a drama of the medieval universe, but are forced to be religious. Actors got fined if they didn’t know their lines.

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Italians made tragedies with happy endings, which they called tragicomedies.

The discovery of single-point perspective painting transformed theater sets.

From 1560, women were finally allowed on the stage in Italy.

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Elizabethan (Shakespeare) Theatre- 1450 to Present

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Elizabethan (Shakespeare) Theatre- 1450 to Present

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In 1558, Elizabeth 1 cracked down on religious and political plays, which ended cycle plays.

First Tragedy on an English subject, “The Tragedies of Gorboduc”, was performed in 1561.

In 1623 after Shakespeare died, his friends published his work, known as the First Folio.

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North American (Early) Theatre- 1716 to (idk)

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North American (Early) Theatre- 1716 to (idk)

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Many Indigenous communities practiced ritual performances (songs, dance, storytelling).

The first North American play was in Canada, previously called New France.

Some North Americans saw theatre as sinful and “too British”, and this caused some New Yorkers to tear a theater down.

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Broadway (Modern) Theatre - 1964 to Present

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Broadway (Modern) Theatre - 1964 to Present

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Hamilton won many awards (Grammy, Pulitzer Prize, etc.) and had 16 Tony Award nominations.

Hamilton was described by Lin Manuel Miranda as “the story of America then described by the people of America now.”

Neil Simon made a ton of award winning plays and was an award winning actor until his passing in 2018.