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Theater Takes Different Forms Some Are Which Are Independent Disciplines List And describe The Three 3 Main Genres Of Theaters Describe Some Of The Form used In Oriental Theater Before It Appeared In Europe And North America .
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The Three Main Genres of Theater
The Ancient Greeks often used theater as a form of studying their environment and its significance to humanity. Three main genres of theater include comedy, tragedy, and satyr plays. According to Liu (2018), comedies were essentially sarcastic and ridiculed men in leadership for their arrogance and indiscretion. The first comedy director was Aristophanes, a scriptwriter, followed by Menander, a screenwriter of comedies concerning ordinary citizens, which were more like sitcoms. Tragedy incorporated themes including failure, passion, arrogance, misuse of authority, and the fraught relationship among men and gods. Generally, the ultimate hero of a tragedy perpetrates gruesome offenses without realizing it (Chung, 2021). Suddenly, as they gradually realize their mistakes, the world disintegrates on them. According to Liu (2018), the three prominent scriptwriters of tragedy include Sophocles, Euripides, and Aeschylus.
Satyr plays are short performances conducted between the act of tragedies and mocked the predicament of the tragedy's habits. Nellhaus (2017) indicates that the satyrs were fictitious half-human, half-goat characters with gigantic phalluses for ironic outcomes. Some of these plays still exist and are often categorized by scholars as tragicomic or comedy-dramas. Some of the forms used in Oriental Theater before it appeared in Europe and North America included antique traditional Asian dances composed by Noh and Kabuki from Japan and Kathakali from India. According to Liu (2018), all three are stylized in context and create an artistic interim between actors and viewers through several approaches identified as Verfremdung.
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References
Chung, F. M. Y. (2021). Translating culture-bound elements: A case study of traditional Chinese theatre in the socio-cultural context of Hong Kong. Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1-23. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40647-021-00322-w
Liu, S. (2018). The Great Traditional/Modern Divide of Regional Chinese Theatrical Genres in the 1950s. Theatre Journal, 70(2), 153-172. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/698645/summary
Nellhaus, T. (2017). Online role-playing games and the definition of theatre. New Theatre Quarterly, 33(4), 345-359. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/new-theatre-quarterly/article/abs/online-roleplaying-games-and-the-definition-of-theatre/BE382C3A9BC5FF8BFDB805F769A89C88