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Roman Theatre 650B.C.-475A.D. Fall of Rome (Based on unifying of city states and change in leadership)
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Roman Empire
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Background ► Plays a retelling of Greek Plays ► Prologue told entire story for the uneducated audience ► Often plot explain further for audience within the play ► Upper class often spread out throughout the empire and not located in Roman, audience often lower class and barbarians.
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Significant People ► A. Pompey huge auditorium “temple” ► B. Caeser-two theatres that revolved into a amphitheatre for chariot races and gladiatorial contests
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Playwrights ► Plautus and Terence Comic writers ► Seneca Tragic writer Plays appeal to the lowest elements
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Plautus
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Seneca
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Theatre Architecture ► Added to Greek-three storied wall filled with carvings and statues ► Awnings over audience and later permanent wooden roofs ► Front curtain-trough in the floor
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Roman Comic Performers
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Roman Theatre Skene expanded to decorative wall with doors
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Terms: Types of Entertainment (purpose to keep the general audience happy and occupied) ► Chariot Races ► Gladiator Contests ► Naumachiaes ► Venationes: Animals in the Arena - lions, elephants, bears, deer, wild goats, dogs, snakes and camels.
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Arena ► Wood floor is no longer present. ► Floor could be removed and lower area flooded for sea battles!
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3 subterranean levels
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Circus Maximus
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Various categories of Gladiators
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Important Terms cont. ► Claque-person paid to arouse audience to clap and shout
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Significant Events ► Roman’s crude drama replaced Greek plays with translations and adaptions ► Frowned upon by upper class and Senate-so lower class=entertainment (demanded spectacle and vulgarity)
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Street Scene
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► Plays performed for holidays which numbered up to 175 ► Fall of Rome-church banned theatre (dormant on continent- in India and the Orient it flourished
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The End!
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