May 2020
Trailer
An introduction to The History Of European Theatre Podcast
Prologue and Pre History
Episode 1
An Introduction to the podcast and your host.
Pre-history and how the urge to mimic and present might have been the start of theatre.
Religious ritual and Shamanism.
The Abydos Passion play and the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
The beginning of Greek Theatre.
A note on dates and the nature of translations.