Theater

theater it is an art where one actor or set of actors represents a history or activities that have as objective to dramatizar a situation and wakening feelings in the hearing.

Table of content

1 History of the theater
- 1.1 Old Greece
  - 1.1.1 Tragedy
  - 1.1.2 Comedy
2 Theater in Brazil
3 Theater in Portugal
4 To also see

History of the theater

Old Greece

The consolidation of the theater, while spectacle, in old, was given in function of the manifestations in homage to the god of the wine, . To each new harvest of grape, she was carried through a party in gratefulness to the god. From there, the festivals had appeared of theater and with them.

Of this time, they had only remained complete parts of: Ésquilo (mythology) - Sófocles (moralista and great poet) - Eurípedes (psychological, unbelieving and lyric).

According to historical registers, in one of the festivals of century VI.C., a called man Téspis is distinguished of the choir, he advances until the front of the group, and declares to be representing the Dionísio god. Téspis is considered the first actor of history.

Tragedy

Comedy

Theater in Brazil

The theater in appeared in century XVI, having as reason the propagation of religious. Amongst some few authors, the priest was distinguished Jose de Anchieta, that it wrote some files of legal documents (old teatral composition) that they aimed at to the catequização of aboriginals. In , some romancistas, as Axe of Assis, Joaquin Manuel de Macedo, Jose de Alencar e poets, as e had entered in the teatral area.

Gonçalves de Magalhães, when coming back of in 1867, it introduces in the romantic influence, that will go to guide writers, poets and dramaturgos. Martins Penalty, call at the time of "Molière Brazilian ", will be the main representative, in the theater, of this school. Most representative it was (romantic poet), with the part "Leonor de Mendonça", had high méritos and until today it is represented.

Theater in Portugal

Gil Vicente (1465 - 1536?) the founder of the Portuguese theater is considered, in century XVI. This, in its Humbug of the Almocreves, in 1526 it speaks of Brazil. António Blacksmith (, 1528 - 1569), it studied in and was the disciple most famous of Sá de Miranda, having been one of the boosters of the renascentista culture in . It wrote the first tragedy of the Portuguese renascentista classicismo, I castrate (1587), inhaled in the loves of D. Peter e D. Ines de Castro, translated for English in 1597 and later for Frenchman and German.

D. Jose, king of Portugal, following the instructions of its father, inaugurated in the 2 of April of 1755 the Real Theater of the Paço of the Ribeira, more known for Opera of the Tejo, situated together to the river, in a space enters the actuais Place of fetichism of the Paço (Pç of the Commerce) and Wharf of the Sodré. It would be the innovative structure most luxurious and of género in , that it would fall total for land with the terrible one Terramoto of 1755 e counting only seven months of life.

Almeida Garrett (, 1799 - , 1854), was a prominent writer and dramaturgo romantic that it established the General Conservatory of Dramatical Art, built National Theater D. Maria II in and organized Inspecção-Geral of the Theaters, revolutionizing for complete the Portuguese cultural politics from 1836, in rescaldo of Liberal Wars. «Frei Luis of Sousa"it is its bigger workmanship.

No longer century XX we find great names of Portuguese to write for theater as it is the case of Júlio Dantas, Raúl Brandão e Regal Jose. To the doors of years 60 the context politician foments a new of intervention that if extends to the palcos through the names of Santareno Bernardo, Luiz Francisco Rebello, Jose Cardoso Saucers e Luis of Sttau Hunter, that had produced and intense workmanships great.

At this moment it exists in a theater dominated above of everything for charismatic encenadores as Luis Miguel Cintra (Theater of the Cornucópia), Mota João (Commune Theater of Research), Jorge Hisses Melo (Joined Artists) and Joaquin Benite (Company of Theater of Almada). With great spreading we find the Festival of , I LOOKED () and Citemor (Montemor-O-Velho), among others, that they receive what of better if makes in Theater in and in the world.