Ancient Greek Drama Vs. Modern English Drama

 

Ancient Greek Drama

Vs

Modern Drama

 

	Ancient Greek Drama	Modern Drama
1	Performed at specified large amphitheatres in Athens on religious festivals only.	Performed anytime, anywhere throughout the year.
2	Less action, maximum of three male actors and a chorus.	Full of action, many actors of both the genders – male & female.
3	High sounding long poetic speeches, dialogues.	Low sounding short prosaic dialogues.
4	Chorus narrates the scenes of too much violence.	Most scenes of violence presented with the help of technology.
5	Masks were given to the actors to express the emotions.	Real facial and bodily gestures are presented by the actors without masks.
6	Minimum properties & no special effects	Advanced properties, sound effects, digital curtains
7	The stories taken from ancient myth, history, religion.	Wide variety of plots, stories, theme.
8	Mostly moral messages were conveyed.	Mostly aims at providing entertainment.
9	Written and divided into Prologue, Parts, Epilogue	Written in Acts and Scenes.
10	Greek theatres in Athens were grand, elaborate in size accommodating thousands of spectators in a	Modern theatres are much smaller in size entertaining a few hundred spectators.
11	Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Aristophanes	Shakespeare, Marlowe, Ben Jonson, G. B. Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter

 

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