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    Ancient Greek drama began as part of religious festivals honoring gods like Dionysus. These festivals spread from Athens to other Greek cities to promote shared identity. Originally, one person acted as performer, director, and playwright. Over time, strict rules limited actors to three and introduced non-speaking roles, increasing the chorus's importance. The three types of Greek plays were tragedy, comedy, and satyr plays which treated myths comically. Tragedy evolved from frenzied songs and developed formal narratives. Notable playwrights included Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Comedy also emerged, though its origins are unknown; Aristophanes wrote many surviving comedies, including Lysistrata

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    Ancient Greek drama began as part of religious festivals honoring gods like Dionysus. These festivals spread from Athens to other Greek cities to promote shared identity. Originally, one person acted as performer, director, and playwright. Over time, strict rules limited actors to three and introduced non-speaking roles, increasing the chorus's importance. The three types of Greek plays were tragedy, comedy, and satyr plays which treated myths comically. Tragedy evolved from frenzied songs and developed formal narratives. Notable playwrights included Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Comedy also emerged, though its origins are unknown; Aristophanes wrote many surviving comedies, including Lysistrata

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    Ancient Greek drama began as part of religious festivals honoring gods like Dionysus. These festivals spread from Athens to other Greek cities to promote shared identity. Originally, one person acted as performer, director, and playwright. Over time, strict rules limited actors to three and introduced non-speaking roles, increasing the chorus's importance. The three types of Greek plays were tragedy, comedy, and satyr plays which treated myths comically. Tragedy evolved from frenzied songs and developed formal narratives. Notable playwrights included Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Comedy also emerged, though its origins are unknown; Aristophanes wrote many surviving comedies, including Lysistrata

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    The Greek theatre history began with festivals honoring their God. For example, Dionysius is honoured with a festival called with 'City Dionysia'. During the festival in Athens, men used to perform songs to welcome Dionysius. It is called Dithyramb. Athens was the main center for these theatrical traditions. They spread these festivals to their numerous allies in order to promote a common identity.

    At the early Greek festivals, the same person will be the actors, directors, and also the dramatist. But after sometime, only three actors were allowed to perform in each play. Later, a few non-speaking roles were allowed to perform on-stage. Due to limited number of actors allowed on-stage, the chorus were envolved into a very active part of Greek theatre.

    Tragedy, comedy, and satyr plays were the theatrical forms.

    Tragedy and comedy were viewed as completely separate genres. Satyr plays dealt with the mythological subject in comic manner. Aristotle's poetics sets out a thesis about the perfect structure for tragedy.

    Thespis is considered to the 1st Greek "actor", sometimes. People also called that he/she has a "thespian talent". It means that they had a talent of being the 1st actor. However, his importance is disputed, and Thespis is sometimes listed as late as the sixteenth in the chronological order of Greek tragedians.

    Aristotle says that tragedy evolved from dithyrambs may have begun as frenzied improvisations but in the 600s BC, the poet Arion is credited with developing the dithyramb into a formalized narrative sung by a chorus. Three well- known Greek tragedy playwrights of the fifth centuries are - Sophocles (prologue) - Euripides - Aeschylus

    Comedy was also an important part of ancient Greek theatre. Comedy plays were derived from imitation; there are no traces of its origin. Aristophanes wrote most of the comedy plays. Out of these

    11 plays survived - Lysitrata, a humorous tale about a strong woman who leads a female coalition to end war in Greece

    Theatre buildings were called a theatron. They were large, open-air structures constucted on the slopes of hills. They consisted of three main elements: the orchestra, scenen, and the audience. The cult's most controversial practice involvd its believed uninhabited dancing and emotional displays that created an altered mental state

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