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    This document provides a timeline of theatre styles and playwrights from 1000 BC to the present. It traces the development of Greek, Roman, medieval, commedia dell'arte, Elizabethan, French neoclassicism, restoration comedy, 18th century sentimentalism, Australian, 19th century melodrama, realism, naturalism, symbolism and expressionism, epic style and didacticism, theatre of the absurd, and eclectic theatre. Each entry includes the time period and key details about theatrical conventions and influential playwrights.

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    This document provides a timeline of theatre styles and playwrights from 1000 BC to the present. It traces the development of Greek, Roman, medieval, commedia dell'arte, Elizabethan, French neoclassicism, restoration comedy, 18th century sentimentalism, Australian, 19th century melodrama, realism, naturalism, symbolism and expressionism, epic style and didacticism, theatre of the absurd, and eclectic theatre. Each entry includes the time period and key details about theatrical conventions and influential playwrights.

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    This document provides a timeline of theatre styles and playwrights from 1000 BC to the present. It traces the development of Greek, Roman, medieval, commedia dell'arte, Elizabethan, French neoclassicism, restoration comedy, 18th century sentimentalism, Australian, 19th century melodrama, realism, naturalism, symbolism and expressionism, epic style and didacticism, theatre of the absurd, and eclectic theatre. Each entry includes the time period and key details about theatrical conventions and influential playwrights.

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    Theatre Styles and Playwrights Timeline

    1000 BC 0 1000 2000

    Main

    Greek Theatre

    Roman Theatre

    Medieval Theatre

    Commedia Dell'arte

    Elizabethan

    17th Century French Neoclassicism

    Restoration Comedy

    18th Century Sentimentalism


    Australian Drama

    19th Century Melodrama

    Realism

    Naturalism

    20th Century Symbolism and Expressionism

    Epic Style and Didacticism

    Theatre of the Absurd


    Eclectic

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    Greek Theatre -Derived in Ancient Greece


    550 BC - 220 BC - Masks commonly used for characterisation
    - Famous playwrights include Sophocles (496-406 BC) and Euripides
    (480-380 BC)

    Ancient Rome
    Roman Theatre
    Main theatre form was farce (influenced by old Greek comedy) -Famous
    240 BC - 476
    playwrights were Livius Andronicus (284-204BC) and Lucius Seneca (4BC-
    65AD)

    Liturgical Drama
    Medieval Theatre
    Comic characters used exaggeration
    401 - 1500
    Playwrights include Hrosvitha (935-1002) and Adam de la Halla (1237-
    1288)

    'Comedy of the Artists'


    Commedia Dell'arte
    Originates from Roman Farce
    1510 - 1650
    Playwrights include Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793) and Molière (1622-1673)
    who did not write Commedia but was greatly influenced by it in his own
    work.

    Started in England
    Elizabethan
    Classed as English Renaissance
    1576 - 1642
    Famous playwrights include William Shakespeare and Christopher
    Marlowe

    Plays concerned with ideas and their effect on human beings


    17th Century French Neoclassicism
    Theatres similar to today
    1648 - 1789
    Famous playwrights include Racine (1639 – 1673) and Moliere (1622-
    1673)

    Mainly known for the comedies of manners


    Restoration Comedy
    Centred on love
    1660 - 1710
    Famous playwrights include William Congreve and Oliver Goldsmith

    Behaviour became more restrained; interest in royal and high class


    18th Century Sentimentalism
    circles reduced – the middle class became more aware of itself
    1701 - 1800
    Acting became more natural and lifelike
    Famous playwrights include Richard Sheridan and John Gay

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    Started in 1788
    Australian Drama
    Lawler and Alan Seymour are among famous playwrights
    1788

    Classed as the ‘Romantic Age’


    19th Century Melodrama
    Melodramas are serious plays in which good and evil are clearly
    1801 - 1900
    separated
    Famous playwrights include Anthony Hope and Douglas Jerrold

    Realists aimed to represent real life


    Realism
    Famous playwrights from the era include Henrik Ibsen and George
    1860 - 1900
    Bernard Shaw

    Believed that theatre should be like ‘a slice of life’ – lifelike scenery;


    Naturalism
    costumes and methods of acting
    1880 - 1940
    In 1909 Stanislavski established the acting system that became the
    foundation for much of the realistic and naturalistic acting of the 20th
    Century – known as ‘method acting’
    Famous playwrights include Emile Zola and Anton Chekhov

    Strongly fought against theatre being a social/political voice


    20th Century Symbolism and Expressionism
    Vocal work had greater emphasis on silence and static
    1890 - 1940
    Among the famous playwrights are; JM Barrie and Alfred Jarry

    Films used as background scenery


    Epic Style and Didacticism
    Music to neutralise emotion rather than strengthen it
    1910 - 1950
    Famous playwrights include Jean Genet and Bertolt Brecht

    Traditional theatrical performances were rejected in favour of illogical


    Theatre of the Absurd
    speeches and events, characters that change into animals, inappropriate
    1951 - 1972
    silences and inconclusion
    Inanimate objects coming to life
    Famous playwrights include Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco

    Movement – total body as a communicator


    Eclectic
    Ideas – tend to be complex
    1960
    Famous playwrights include Harold Pinter and Joe Orton

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