When was drama started

The ancient Greek and Roman dramas were mostly concerned with religious ceremonials of people. It was the religious element that resulted in the development of drama. The earliest origins of drama are to be found in Athens where ancient hymns, called Dithyrambs, were sung in honour of the God Dionysus.

These hymns were later adopted for choral processions in which participants would dress up in costumes and masks. Eventually, some members of the chorus evolved to take special roles within the processions in which participants would dress up in costumes and masks. Eventually, some members of the chorus evolved to take special roles within the procession, but they were not yet actors in the way we understand.

That development came later in the 6th century BC. According to tradition, in or BC, Thespis astonished the audience by leaping onto the backof the wooden cart and reciting poetry, enacting the character whose lines he was reading.

Like its western counterpart, drama in Bengal too owes its origin to religious customs. From the 16th century, with the modernist trend in Bengal ushered in by Sri Chaitanya Dev, Sanskrit plays were first translated into Bengali and then performed. An important aspect of Gaudiya Vaishnavism a religious movement propagated by Chaitanya Dev that gained dominance at that time was the devotional worship of Radha and Krishna and that remained the theme of many devotional plays.

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