1. History of Theatre Timeline
Drama III/IV

2. Prehistory-600 B.C.
Shamanism
Ritual
Dance
Storytelling

3. 600 B.C. – 1500 A.D. Origin of Greek Theatre Golden Age of Greece
Roman Theatre (1 A.D.)
Medieval Drama
Theatre in China
Noh Drama

4.
Commedia dell’ arte
Rise of English Drama
Shakespeare

5. 1700-1850 Theatre in America Ballad Opera Middle-Class Audience
“Laughing Comedy”
Melodrama
German Romantic Drama

6. 1850-1900 Henrik Ibsen Bernard Shaw Anton Chekhov Special Effects
Arrival of Cinema

7. 1900-1940 Constructivism Expressionism Eugene O’Neill Lillian Hellman
Epic Theatre

8. 1940-1950 Samuel Beckett Arthur Miller Tennessee Williams
Broadway Musicals
Thornton Wilder