live for an audience. The word theatre comes from the Greek theatron, meaning ?seeing

place?. The term drama, coming from the Greek word dran, meaning ?to do?. Theatre is

something seen and done(Cohen, 9). People and ideas combine to form the art of theatre.

The word theatre refers to everything involved in putting on a performance from the

echniques used by actors to give a good show to the building and making of the sets.

The business of theatre is woven together by many people?s hard work and artistic

Theatre is traced back through history to Athens, Greece in the fifth century B.C.

Four of the most talented playwrights of all time: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and

Aristophanes spawned from this period. Unity of ?myth, legend, philosophy, social

commentary, poetry, dance, music, public participation, and visual splendor? is what

these playwrights produced in their writings(Cohen, 59). The Middle Ages is the time

between the fall of Rome and the coming of the Renaissance. The theater of the Middle

Ages was ?profoundly religious? and often referred

themselves? during performances(Cohen, 20). During improvisation the actor and the

Theatre is a live performance played for an audience. It is also usually scripted

time. Protagoras expressed ?Man is the measure of all things?(Cohen, 116). The

such well known plays as Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, and Hamlet.

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