Western theatre developed and expanded significantly beneath the Romans. The Roman historian Livy wrote that the Romans first experienced theatre in the 4th century BCE, with a performance by Etruscan actors. Beacham argues that that they had been familiar with “pre-theatrical practices” for a while before that recorded contact. The theatre of historic Rome was a thriving and various artwork type, ranging from pageant performances of road theatre, nude dancing, and acrobatics, to the staging of Plautus’s broadly interesting situation comedies, to the high-style, verbally elaborate tragedies of Seneca. Although Rome had a native custom of performance, the Hellenization of Roman culture within the 3rd century BCE had a profound and energizing impact on Roman theatre and inspired the event of Latin literature of the highest high quality for the stage.
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