Drama: the evolution of theatre in History

scandinavian drama and folk lore 15oo AD

Realisim russia 1800 AD

realisim russian theatre was constuced to introduce a more useful message and morals on public after experiencing cpious amounts of melodramas, comdies and disasters. this new drama developed into a way to pass political messages and a belif system began that stated science could fix societies every problem. this form of theatre had to fix with realisim that was fueled by darwins theory and the independent theatre movement which were alll heading in different directions.

native american folklore 1500th AD

Renaissance theatre 1500 AD

this theatre flourished in the elizabethan period that popularised plays for the average man. Buildings were constructed to maximaise crowd space and behind the scenes mechanisims. children were taught that impersonation of events and past writings improved their work which lead to actors such as Christopher Marlow or William Shakespeare who use earlier liturature such as latin to base their plays off of. the costumes were often heavy and dramatised and makeup was painted on and often posioned by the lead base.

nineteenth century drama 1800 AD

france and germany

Golden age theatre 1600 AD

Greek theatre 700 BC

twentith century theatre 1900 AD

Theatre that evolved from ealier dramas in spanish history is the golden age theatre, often now not taken seriously for its values that are abused or misunderstood although this was one of the most artisti times in spanish history.

just japenese theatre 1400-1600 AD

shang dynisty 1500 BC

medievil islamic theatre

Greek theatre began early on with a religion following Dionysus in song and frenzied dance praising their god and relishing on sacrificed meat. soon the priests add words to their songs and soon competitions for the publics consumption being where the best actor from each tribe are given a night to write the best tragities and comedies. the tradition of only men in theatre began in greece with their wide bowl shaped theatre arena being also a starting block that would be developed later by europeans.

passion plays and shadow puppest dominated islamic theatre. the passion plays where normally prefomed by members of the Shia a group of peacful muslims renacting islamic history. the shadow puppetry was popular with all of society and displayed most dramatic categories including elaborate, farcial or serious.

Passion Plays Orisis (also known as Wesir 2000 BC

The first evidence of plays preformed for knowledge or entertainment were found by the nile. A stone tablet forever etched with the plot of a play centred around the King Orisis who ruled wisely until violntly murdered and his body parts spread for miles. His wife and son avenged his death and took back his throne leading to a worshiped memory. This particular play was preformed annually in many cities with acting that must of been much like ours preformed but seemingly more realisitic because it was, the soldiers that depicted the battle scene between Orisis son and the enimeys often resulted in death from the injuries occured on stage. the preformance ended withOrisis being praised as a god and future events sugested slyly.

Sanskrit theatre 1-2 BC

Aláàrìnjó theatre 1900 AD

thailand theatre Ramekine 1700 AD

nigeriana traveling theatre that

Sanskrit plays belong to a fom of liturature that flourised around the 15th century AD but found found much earlier than that but little evidence survived since the exclusivity that watching a show was. from the outside drama looked to be heavily imbeaded with religion and supernatural elements although they were firmly rested in realisim. (talk about the simplistic ideals of Kalidasa,or Bhavabhuti greatists idealism.

latin america theatre 14th AD century including the conquest 15 ad

pre hispanic 16 Ad the spanish christian conquest. and now latin american stuff.

south african theatre 17 Ad

australian mythology theatre

traditons throughout africa all evolved from tribes and

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The evolution of drama through history

Nikita McHugh

in this presentation i have researched through all kinds of technology to find information that spans time and country. in this search i have concluded to look at theatre as the event rather than building.