Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 173, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1913 — Birth of the Theatre. [ARTICLE]

Birth of the Theatre.

The theatre is the creation of the ancient Greeks. The drama, in the true sense of tbs word, was bom in Athens immediately after the great victory over tbs Persians, B. C. 1500480. The famous Dtanyaiao Theatre at Athens was completed about B. 0. 840. Romo was never much on the theatre. In Borne there was far too much real tragedy every day, 00 that the people had no ooeaaton to mimic it on the stage. It was as late as Bi C. 114 when the first permanent playhouse was erected In Rome by Cossiua. Even aa late so ■; O. M Pompey had all ho coold do to make the theatra popular ia the Florae 1 City.