Transcript History of Theatre Timeline Notes

History of
Theatre
Timeline
Drama III/IV
Prehistory-600 B.C.
 Shamanism
 Ritual
 Dance
 Storytelling
600 B.C. – 1500 A.D.
 Origin
of Greek Theatre
 Golden Age of Greece
 Roman Theatre (1 A.D.)
 Medieval Drama
 Theatre in China
 Noh Drama
1500-1700
 Commedia
dell’ arte
 Rise of English Drama
 Shakespeare
1700-1850
 Theatre
in America
 Ballad Opera
 Middle-Class Audience
 “Laughing Comedy”
 Melodrama
 German Romantic Drama
1850-1900
 Henrik
Ibsen
 Bernard Shaw
 Anton Chekhov
 Special Effects
 Arrival of Cinema
1900-1940
 Constructivism
 Expressionism
 Eugene
O’Neill
 Lillian Hellman
 Epic Theatre
1940-1950
 Samuel
Beckett
 Arthur Miller
 Tennessee Williams
 Broadway Musicals
 Thornton Wilder