The History of Theatre By Ethan Ragsdill 245 BCE Plautus 156 BCE Terence 27 BCE Roman Theatre 4 BCE Seneca 11 Origin of Theatre 11 Ritual Dance 11 Pantomime 11 Greek 11 Festival of Dionysus 11 Thespis 11 Aeschylus 11 Sophocles 11 Oedipus Rex 11 Euripides 11 Aristophanes 11 Rome 11 Medieval 13 Eastern Theatre 1500 medieval theatre 1558 Elizabethan Era 1564 Christopher marlowe 1564 William Shakespere 1573 Ben Jonson 1640 William Wycherly 1670 William Congreve 1678 George Farquhar 1824 American Theatre 1888 Eugine O'Neill 1893 Musical Theatre 1897 Thorton Wilder 1905 Lillian Hellman 1911 Tennessee wiliams 1915 Arthur Miller 1927 Neil Simon 1930 Lorainne Hansberry 1952 Beth Henley
