Between 600 and 200 BC, two thousand years before Shakespeare, staging and written techniques which define western theatre as we know it were being established in Athens, Greece. The ancient Athenians created a theatre culture whose structure, technique and terminology have survived to the present day in the form of plays which are still considered some of the greatest literary works in existence. The only other times in history when dramatic writing has even come close to the standard of the Athenian poets was brought with the social revolution of the twentieth century and in Elizabetha…
