Transcription: The history of Western drama begins at an open-air theater in ancient Greece in the 6th century BC. At the Theater of Dionysus in Athens, as part of a spring festival called the Great Dionysia, men competed in dithyrams and tragedies. The dithyram was a song paying homage to the god Dionysus, sung by a large chorus, and it is possible that tragedy evolved out of this choral narrative. Among the great playwrights of ancient Greece were Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, who wrote tragedies, and Aristophanes, who wrote comedies. During the Middle Ages, the Church introduced a form of drama in v ...
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