western theater
European dramatic tradition
Western theater refers to the European and North African fronts of a major war, particularly World War II, as distinguished from the Pacific or Eastern theaters: My grandfather served in the western theater.
The term divides global conflicts into geographic zones of military operations.
In World War II, it typically meant the campaigns in France, Italy, and North Africa rather than the Soviet front or Pacific islands.
- Greek chorusMasked performers providing commentary
- tragic heroCharacter whose flaw causes ruin
- SophoclesClassical Athenian playwright
- BroadwayManhattan theatrical district
- RealismMovement depicting ordinary life
Henrik Ibsen · William Shakespeare · Postmodernism · Anton Chekhov · Samuel Beckett · Elizabethan drama · Bertolt Brecht · fourth wall · Opera · method acting · Commedia dell'arte · Arthur Miller · Tennessee Williams · curtain call · Romanticism · Eugene O'Neill · Aristotle · dramatic irony
- Civil War Navalgunboat, Union blockade, blockade runners, naval battle, blockade running
western theaterBeijing opera
Classical Chinese musical drama
Peking opera · Chinese opera · Japanese theater · Bunraku · shadow puppetry
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