Theatre history

Greek theatre, picture, image, illustration

Music had been used to accompany poems during the medieval era. The Elizabethans taste for the Theatre was soon enhanced by the accompaniment of music. It was only a short step to combine the accustomed music with its accompanying verse with the exciting pageantry of the Elizabethan theatre. The importance of music to the Elizabethans was reflected in the plays of William Shakespeare who makes more than five hundred references to music in his plays and poems!

Our popular Drama and Theatre posters are a great way of engaging your students in drama and improving their understanding of important topics and skills.

The V&A's Theatre and Performance collections chart the fascinating history of theatre in Britain from the middle ages to today.

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Theatre of the absurd

bibliography for my theater history class. study focus on Portugal's theater history and writer Gil Vicente from the Renaissance.

Every carnival, regardless of its country origin or other characteristics, is traditionally associated with Venetian carnival masks.

Greek theaters had large semicircle amphitheaters for the audience and could be built into a hill. In the center of the amphitheater is an orchestra. Behind the orchestra is the skene which served as a place for actors to change masks and costumes. Passages were also frequently used in Greek theater to aid elaborate entrances and exits for the chorus.