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  "headline": "Theater History",
  "description": "Theater originated in ancient Greece (~6th century BCE) from religious rituals honoring Dionysus. Tragedy (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides) and comedy (Aristophanes) established Western dramatic forms. Key developments: Elizabethan theater (Shakespeare, Globe Theater), Restoration comedy, modern realism (Ibsen, Chekhov), musical theater, experimental/avant-garde.",
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