Theater - Other

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In addition to acting, some other subject areas in theater include:

-Drama

-Stage management

-Dramatic criticism

-History of drama

-Theater management

-Musical theater

-Technical theater

...and many others. If you don't see the category you're looking for, ask us!

On a level appropriate for a student seeking college homework help in theater, a great online tutorial for drama/theater is offered by MIT's OpenCourseWare and is titled Foundations of Theater Practice.

Ancient Drama

In the ancient world, epic and tragedy were the highest forms of drama and dealt with only noble people.

Tragedy arose from religious ritual called chant/choral (in honour of Dionysius).  Drama was considered credible in the classical and mediaeval world. The word tragedy stems from the Greek word τράγος, meaning goat, generally thought to be because a goat was given as a prize or a sacrifice at the annual drama festival.  The oldest surviving play texts were penned by Aeschylus in the fifth century BC.

The whole point of tragedy was worship – encouraging a sense of awe in divine power and resulting in the process of purification, or catharsis.  This power was expressed through various gods representing different aspects of morality: marriage, justice, heroism and intelligence.

Human beings were seen as morally imperfect, capable of revenge, sexual licence etc., so tragedy charts human moral development against the will of the gods who were forever looming in the background observing our follies.

The ancient Greeks were not just concerned with telling a moral story but with projecting characters and their human problems.

The message was that you cannot escape the will of the gods and/or the divine plan.  The usual downfall of human beings was to commit:

Hubris – A wish to step beyond limits of one's own being

              Treating gods lightly

              Asking too many questions etc

Tragedy therefore explores the human condition and raises questions about our existence in the great scheme of things.

To read more about early classical theater, why not check out Mark Damon's page at USU.  You can also visit Scott R. Robinson's page at CWU, for a comprehensive tour of theater through the ages.

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