Drama an imitation of life

"A main theme of this program is that conflict is the essence of drama and this truth is as changeless as man's unending conflicts with himself and his world. The program opens by tracing the history of drama from its beginning in tribal dances, masks, and rituals to the Greek theatres of the centuries before Christ where drama developed first as a means of honouring gods, then evolved into the play as we know it today. The program continues with an account of drama as it changed and matured through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance period, which produced William Shakespeare. We view scenes from Oedipus Rex, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet. The program closes with an examination of Ibsen's Doll House, which is presented as a play that is typical of modern drama's tendency to explore human relations."@en
"Traces the history of drama from its beginning in tribal dances to the Greek theaters, where drama developed first as a means of honoring gods, to plays as we know them today. Details how drama evolved through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and Elizabethan periods and examines a modern work, Ibsen's A Doll's house."@en
"Traces the history of drama from its beginning in tribal dances to the Greek theaters, where drama developed first as a means of honoring gods, to plays as we know them today. Details how drama evolved through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and Elizabethan periods and examines a modern work, Ibsen's A Doll's house."@en