The History of The Theatre

Greek Theatre, Roman Theatre and Medieval Theatre

During the second class, Dr Edwin had introduced us to the history of the theatre. Greek theatre had been originated by Aristotle (384-322 B.C). Sophocles was a greatest writer of tragedy. In his plays and those of the same genre, heroes and the ideals of life were depicted and glorified. Greek theatre in tragedy is easier to understand rather than Greek comedy. Besides Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euridipes also have become the tragedy play writers while Aristophanes had became the writer of the comedy plays.

Besides Greek theatre, there are also Roman Theatre and Medieval Theatre. Seneca had become the famous play writer for tragedy in Roman. Roman’s tragedy plays is very tragic. They use a lot of horror elements in their plays such as blood and kill act. While the Roman’s tragedy full of blood, the Roman’s comedy have a lot of emergence of Christianity.Difference with Greek’s and Roman’s theatre, Medieval theatre focus on the morality plays. The plays during Medieval’s era have a lot of messages to the audience.

From all those thing, I will sum up that every era of the theatre had brought the
difference impact to the world of theatre.