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Western theatre, history of the Western theatre from its origins in pre-Classical antiquity to the present. For a discussion of drama as a literary form, see dramatic literature and the articles on individual national literatures.
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- Hamlet by William Shakespeare. What doesn't this tragedy have? There's sublime poetry, rich psychology for characters of both sexes, a hefty dose of comedy to leaven the mood, and, depending on a director's interpretation, a crackling good mystery lying underneath the tale of "The Melancholy Dane."
- Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill. This autobiographical play about O'Neill's young adulthood scorches from start to finish. You can feel the rawness as soon as it starts, as a man—along with his two adult sons—strives to ensure that his wife remains serene after a stint in rehab for morphine addiction.
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee. The language of theater—not in the stagecraft sense, but in the actual dialogue sense—became something new with this lacerating 1962 drama.
- Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. "Attention must be paid." Indeed. Not just to Willy Loman and the sad realities of his life as a mediocre traveling salesman and the delusions that barely keep him afloat, but also to Miller's exquisite modern tragedy about an average Joe.
Jun 8, 2018 · Aristophanes was born about 450 BC, possibly on the island Aegina. His plays are the only examples of Old Comedy (comedy that focuses largely on political satire rather than human relations, the focus of New Comedy) that have survived in their complete form.
These six plays – Abraham, Callimachus, Dulcitius, Gallicanus, Paphnutius, and Sapientia – are the first known plays composed by a female dramatist and the first identifiable Western dramatic works of the post-classical era.
The earliest surviving texts of plays are seven tragedies by Aeschylus dating from the first half of the 5th century bce. Adding a second actor and reducing the chorus from 50 to 12, Aeschylus laid the foundation for an aesthetics of drama that was to influence subsequent plays for well over 2,000 years.
Jun 20, 2024 · Biblical plays. Western drama had a new beginning in the medieval church, and, again, the texts reflect the ritual function of the theatre in society. The Easter liturgy, the climax of the Christian calendar, explains much of the form of medieval drama as it developed into the giant mystery cycles.
The V&A's Theatre and Performance collections chart the fascinating history of theatre in Britain from the middle ages to today. From early dramatic forms, such as mystery plays and court masques, to the alternative and 'in yer face' drama of the late 20th century, via the patriotic wartime entertainment of the 1940s, and the foundation of ...
