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Nearly every Greek and Roman city of note had an open-air theatre, the seats arranged in tiers with a lovely view of the surrounding landscape. Here the Greeks sat and watched the plays first of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes, and of Menander and the later playwrights.

The restoration period is the period that happened after Oliver Cromwell's reign as the Lord Protector of England.

Aeschylus's most popular play was the Prometheus Bound.

Sophocles wrote over 120 plays. However his most famous one was the Oedipus the King.

Religion and theatre have actually been very closely linked throughout the history of theatre.

Many people do not realise this, but theatre and the action of performance originated many years before humans could even talk (3.4 million yrs ago to be exact).

Dionysus and the beginnings of theatre.