Angeline Franco
Historia del Teatro Abstract Theatre, the artistic genre in which literature (dramaturgy) and the performing arts (theatrical performance) come together, is one of humanity's oldest forms of artistic expression. Although its origin commonly dates back to classical antiquity in the West, the truth is that almost all ancient cultures had some form of theatre or spectacle very similar, with which they educated their young people, prayed to their gods or remembered their founding myths. However, the first to understand theatre as an art form in itself, i.e. as "dramatic art", were the ancient Greeks from the 6th to 4th centuries BC. The ancient Greeks celebrated certain religious rituals in honor of Dionysus, god of wine and fertility, known as the bacchanals. In these rites, dance and trance states were normal, but so was a certain narrative and staging of the founding myths, and the latter was what gave rise to the theater. It originated in the 6th...