what was the name of the first permanent theatre in rome?
Pompey theatre
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What was a comedy?
Plautus comedies is about a slave girl and a young man who fall in love but have to hide their relationship from his disapproving father, with the help of a cunning slave. In the end she turns out to be freeborn
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What was a farce?
A play about Italian country lifem with rude jokes and slapstick. it included several familiar characters like pappus an old fool
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What was a pantomime?
A mix of ballet and opera, it would have a serious plot about greek myth and many characters would be played by 1 slave wearing a mask
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who built the pompey theatre and why?
General Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, to make himself popular
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What was a tragedy like?
Connected to religion, written and performed in greek but it was by romans. the plot started good but ended bad
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what was the name of the first permanent theatre in rome?
The level of grammar in these questions and statements leave a lot to be desired e.g the plot started good but ended bad! The plot started WELL but ended BADLY.
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