https://padlet.com/elisa_andreoni/84l1oms27xde en-us 2017-03-29 12:32:25 UTC 2017-06-07 13:09:03 UTC hello@padlet.com elisa_andreoni https://padlet.com/elisa_andreoni/84l1oms27xde/wish/163395923 The theatre is a collaborative form of art that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses, to present a real or imagined event . The specific place of the performance is named by the word "theatre" which comes from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing").]]> 2017-03-29 12:39:45 UTC https://padlet.com/elisa_andreoni/84l1oms27xde/wish/163395923 elisa_andreoni https://padlet.com/elisa_andreoni/84l1oms27xde/wish/163396771 The theatre was born in the city-state of Athens and it was part of a festival which honoured the god Dionysus. The plays were composed of verses and besides the lead player there was a chorus (between 12-50 players) who danced, sang or spoke their lines together.   
The three genres that emerged were:  

1. Tragedy (500 BC). Tragedies were often based upon myths from the oral traditions and were presented by actors.
2. Comedy (490 BC). Comedies were stage-plays with a happy ending. They could also be an imitation of ''the ridiculous'' (Aristotle thought that a comedy was a representation of laughable people). 
3. Satyr play. Satyr plays were an ancient Greek form of tragicomedy, they featured choruses of satyrs and they were based on Greek mythology.
   
   
   
   
   
   
    

]]> 2017-03-29 12:42:22 UTC https://padlet.com/elisa_andreoni/84l1oms27xde/wish/163396771 elisa_andreoni https://padlet.com/elisa_andreoni/84l1oms27xde/wish/163418702 The theatre developed and expanded under the Romans. Roman citizens began including plays to the Lectisternium ceremonies (consisting of a meal offered to gods and goddesses) to pacify the gods even more. In the following years actors began doing performances by acting out texts set to music and dancing.
Only the roman tragedies of two authors survived, one is an unknown author, while the other is the philosopher Seneca.
All Roman comedies that have survived were based on Greek subjects and were written by Plautus and Terence.

]]> 2017-03-29 13:41:51 UTC https://padlet.com/elisa_andreoni/84l1oms27xde/wish/163418702 elisa_andreoni https://padlet.com/elisa_andreoni/84l1oms27xde/wish/163428705 Medieval theatre included all drama produced in Europe over that period and it refers to a variety of genres, such as liturgical drama, mystery plays and morality plays. Medieval drama was very religious and moral in its themes and traditions. Churches in the Early Middle Ages began staging particular biblical events on specific days of the year to explain a new religion to an illiterate population.
Liturgical drama was a type of play acted in or near the church based on stories from the Bible and of the saints and it was in Latin.
Mystery/miracle plays were focused on the representation of the Bible's stories in churches (for example they were about the Creation, Adam and Eve, the murder of Abel, and the last judgment.) or of the life and miracles of a saint.
In morality plays the characters personified moral qualities (such as charity or vice) or abstractions (as death or youth) and moral lessons were taught.


]]> 2017-03-29 14:08:11 UTC https://padlet.com/elisa_andreoni/84l1oms27xde/wish/163428705 elisa_andreoni https://padlet.com/elisa_andreoni/84l1oms27xde/wish/163440422 Under Queen Elizabeth, the theatre was addressed to all social classes  (the nobles watched the same plays the commoners saw in the public playhouses.) With private theatres, drama was based on the tastes of an upper-class audience. Theatrical life was centred just outside London, but plays were performed by touring companies all over England and abroad (for example in Germany and in Denmark). Costumes were used to recognize characters and colours symbolized the social classes. The companies included only males and female parts were played by adolescent boys dressed like women. Performances also occurred in the afternoon since no artificial lighting existed. When the light began to fade, candles were lit so that the play could continue until its end.
Genres of the period included the history play, which was about English or European history, tragedy (the audience particularly liked revenge dramas) and comedy, especially city comedy.
Only a minority of the plays was printed and only about 20 were published in book form.
The Elizabethan theatre was influenced by ''commedia dell'arte'' companies. Commedia dell'arte was an improvised kind of popular comedy, played in Italian theatres by both men and women and based on love intrigues. Seneca's plays were widely read in Renaissance universities and they strongly influenced tragic drama in that time (he inspired William Shakespeare and other playwrights) He is regarded as the source and inspiration for what is known as "Revenge Tragedy". An example of revenge tragedy is Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy , in which there are some elements from Seneca and Machiavelli; another  well-known revenge tragedy is William Shakespeare's Hamlet .

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