What Is Theater? Crash Course Theater #1

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Welcome to Crash Course Theater with Mike Rugnetta! In this, our inaugural week, we’re going to ask the two classic questions about theater. 1.What is theater? And 2. Is it spelled -re or -er? Well, there’s a clue to question two in the title of the video. The first question is a little trickier. We’ll look at some of the historical definitions of theater, and investigate some of the ways people have thought about theater in different times and places in the world.

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28 Comments

  1. THANK YOU. I'm doing a school project about the evolution of theatre and drama, stumbled upon this video and oh my god my life became so much easier

  2. theatRE or theatER???
    Let me break this down.

    -American English: theater

    Note that modern English (that we use today in the 21st century) is a Germanic language with influence from Romance language (Latin root), but "theatre" came from Greek language.

    -Greek: θέατρον / théatron (a place for viewing)

    -British English: theatre
    *also in Canadian, Australian and New Zealandian English

    -Latin: theatrum
    French: théâtre
    Spanish: teatro
    Portuguese: teatro
    Italian: teatro
    Romanian: teatru

    All of them use -tr + vowel, only American English uses -ter.

    American English is simplified and British English is traditional.

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