classical drama
Greek or Roman
Classical drama refers to the theatrical traditions of ancient Greece and Rome, or works modeled on their conventions.
Greek tragedy and comedy established foundational forms: the chorus, dramatic unities of time and place, stock characters.
She studied classical drama at conservatory.
The term also applies to later plays following these principles, like French neoclassical theater.
Distinguished from modern or experimental drama.
- Dionysian festivalsAncient Greek religious celebrations
- Greek theatreAncient outdoor performance venue
- EuripidesGreek tragic dramatist
- tragic heroCharacter whose flaw causes ruin
- noble sufferingDignified endurance of pain
Sophocles · blood curse · tragedy · hamartia · catharsis · comedy · hubris · Seneca · divine justice · mask usage · theatron · Aeschylus · Aristotle · chorus · orchestra · prologue · stagecraft · pathos
- classicsHomer, Iliad, the Iliad, Odyssey, the Odyssey
- Ancient TheaterGreek theater, Roman theater, theatron, skene, orchestra
- Asian theaterkabuki, noh, Beijing opera, bunraku, Peking opera
- classical literatureHomer, Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Plato
- French theaterRacine, Tartuffe, Andromache, Horace, Ionesco
- play typescomedy, tragedy, farce, melodrama, tragicomedy
classical dramaavant-garde theater
Innovative, nontraditional stage performance
experimental theater · modern drama · contemporary theater · absurdist theater · theater of the absurd
classical dramaexperimental theater
Unconventional staged performance art
epic theater · improvisational theater · happening · tragicomedy
classical dramaavant-garde theater
Innovative, nontraditional stage performance