HIstory

My personal experience about theater and theater history is very little. I am one of the clean slate people that were talked about the first day. The only experience I have with theater is some of the readings I had to do in high school English class. Hopefully, this will be a good opportunity to expand my knowledge about topics that I am unfamiliar with in my background. The main question I have, would be where and how this exactly started, and why it has stuck around for such a long time.
Since I am unfamiliar with this topic area I had to search on the internet to find more information. I simply searched “history of theater” and came up with some interesting information. In the beginning of Greek theater the performances were done in hillside ampitheaters. The lines were not merely spoken by the players of the role, but were more chanted. “Actors” were not in the first Greek plays. The people who were on the stage typically wore masks and walked around in large boots to increase their height. The two typical plays were tragedies and comedies. The comedies took place in a small winter festival compared to the large spring festival that the tragedies took place during. Overall the tragedies have become better known than the comedies. http://www.tctwebstage.com/ancient.htm
I think this story makes since, especially how the tragedies have survived the years better than the comedies. This seems true because with my little knowledge about theater, I have read some tragedies, but I do not remember any comedies. This seems to be a credible source with some interesting and valuable information. This is a good start for me, but hopefully this class will help me to have a better understanding of theater in general.