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ANTIGONE BY: DAISY OKI HISTORY OF GREEK THEATRE 25 hundred years ago, two thousand years before Shakespeare, western theatre was born in Athens Greece. Between 600 and 200bc the ancient Athenians created a theatre culture whose form, technique and terminology have lasted to millennia and they created plays that are still considered amongst the greate3st works of world drama. By 600bc Greece was divided into two states. The most prominent city state was Athens where at least 150,000 people live. It was there that the rites of Dionysus evolved into what we know today as theatre. Dionysus was cult that arose in northern Greece. Since Greek and Attica theatre are sometimes referred to as attic theatre. Sometime during the next 75yrs thepis of Attica added on an actor who interacted with the chorus. The actor was called the protagonist, from which the modern word protagonist is derived meaning the main character...

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