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根据短文内容回答下列问题
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The art of acting in a theatre and writing plays for the
theatre
is
known
as
drama
(
戏剧
).
Most
dramatic
events
take the form of actors acting out a story by a writer, called
a playwright or dramatist.
Because
this
is
usually
done
on
a
stage
in
a
theatre,
drama is also called theatre. The stories acted in the theatre are called plays. Drama is very much
like
literature
(
文学
)
,
but
is
not
written
only
to
be
read
from
books.
In
a
way
it
is
a
kind
of
literature brought to life in the form of a play.
Some drama is not written down, but is made up by the actors as they go along. This is called
improvisation
(
即兴创作
).
Another
form
of
drama
is
mime.
In
mime,
the
actors
do
not
say
anything, but use their movements and facial expressions to tell the story. In mime make-up and
costume is important to show the kind of character that the actor is playing.
The
first
recorded
play
was
performed
by
the
ancient
Egyptians
around
2700
BC.
The
beginning of drama as we know it, however, was in ancient Greece, where it used to be part of a
religious ceremony
(
宗教仪式
). The Greek plays were performed in semi-circular theatres. These
outdoor theatres could often hold over 20,000 people. The church in the Middle Ages also used
drama as part of its worship. As time went by, groups of actors were from town to town with a
mobile stage to put these plays on.
Soon, actors and playwrights found new subjects for their plays.
Towards the end of the 15
th
century, the Italians developed the art of
comedy.
A
hundred
years
later,
in
England,
William
Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
was
writing
many
plays
on
historical
subjects.
Nowadays,
plays
have
as
many
different
subjects
as
novels
do
and
there are dramatists in many countries writing all kinds of plays.
88. What do actors do in most dramatic events? (1
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