Roman Drama
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| Skene | 3 stories; used for storage, connected to seating area
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| Orchestra | Semi circular, only for musicians
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| Pulpitum | Large, raised stage for acting
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| Voms | Tunnels for audience members to reach seats
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| Auleum | Front curtain (raised bottom up)
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| Location of Theaters | In cities throughout the empire
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| Audience | Lower class and soldiers
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| Time Frame | Began 200B.C. to 375A.D.
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| Cessation of Interest | 400A.D. other interests, need for real violence
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| Closet Dramas | A play so gory/violent that it's meant to be read, not performed
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| Satire | Mocking or ridicules a problem in society or object/public figures
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| Farce | (slapstick) highly improbable plot
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| Stereotypes | (Stock characters) shrewish wife+meek husband, wise servant+clueless master
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| Claque | Someone paid to clap and cheer wildly
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| Themes | Comedy based on mockery; violence for sake of violence, violence as punishment, domestic fights
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| Roman gods & beliefs | All planets on Greek gods, same stories, just different names
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| Roman Style | Roman showed violence, very gory
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| Pompey's Contribution to Theater | Tried to make it more religious (Venus statue)
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| Terence | Comedy; former slave, borrowed plots from Greeks
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| Seneca | Tragedy; Roman statesman+senator
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| Plautus | Comedy, added slapstick and stock characters to plays
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| Stock Characters | stereotypical characters
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