Roman Comedy
Plautus
Theatrical Features
Modern
Frame
Stage
Greek Theater
Circular
Theatron
Seeing Space
Dionysus, Patron of Theater
Props and Masks and Costumes appear
First
Single Temporary Greek Wooden Stage
The theater of Dionysis
Steep Hill
Large Theater
Sacred Celebration
The Wooden "Sceade"
the first painted cere
Orkestra, actual stage.
Usually 3 actors, all roles
Odeon of Pericles
Tent-like roof
Likergous ordered the wooden theater rebuilt
Women were not allowed to perform on stage
Terence
Aristophanes
Old Comedy
New Comedy
Situation Comedy
Stock Characters
No Chorus
Meander 100 years before Plautus and Terence
Subtopic 5
First Major Roman Theater
Theater of Pompeii
Built as free-standing flat structure
Largest theater ever built
Crowned by Venusian Victory Temple
Characteristic
High Skeana, 4 stories tall
Richly decorated
three doorways
Grandeur and Spectacle
Seperated by Class
Seating was discriminating
Romans developed levels, sections, roads, and aisles
Arena System Programming
Terms
Theatron
Phylax Vases
Depictions of Early Theater
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Skene
Tent
Our word Scenery, Scene
Orchestra
Dancing Place
Chorus area
Circular Area
Changes the Romans made
High elaborate skene and stage
the Romans engineered a flat-ground theater
Roman Comedy
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Roman Comedy