Greg Blog #1

I don’t know very much about the history of theatre. I only know what little I learned in high school or had to look up on the internet for help with a crossword puzzle. I have works by Shakespeare such as Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer’s Nights Dream, and some sonnets. I have also read the Greek epics, The Odyssey by Homer, and the Iliad by Virgil, though I know next to nothing about Greek plays or playwrites

What I would like to learn from this class is the different time periods where the more radical changes in theatre occurred, and the reasoning for said changes. The time period is so enormous that it would be hard to nail down a single period that was the most influential in the evolution of theatre, but a period I would be most interested in learning about is the medieval period, after the Roman Empire but before the Renaissance. From what I have seen or read, they had actors entertain them by singling or juggling, but the drama from the time is largely overshadowed by the technology and philosophy of the Roman Empire, and the Cultural Revolution of the Renaissance. I am hoping to learn a lot from this class.