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==Ancient Greek and Roman theatre==

All Roman comedy stems from Greek New Comedy but rewritten in Latin with slight adjustments to local taste and the long, narrow stage of Roman theatre. It keeps the characteristics of conventional situations from domestic life and stock character-masks that were traditional in the Greek model.<ref name="Wise, Jennifer 2003">Wise, Jennifer, and Craig S. Walker, eds. The Broadview Anthology of Drama: Plays from the Western Theatre. Vol. 1. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview, 2003. Print.</ref>

Roman theatre in turn influenced theatre of the [[Renaissance]]. "The nine Greek-style tragedies of [[Seneca the Younger|Seneca]] (c. 4 B.C.E. -65 C.E.) are especially noteworthy, partly because they were to have a more profound influence on Renaissance tragedians than their Greek originals." Conventions commonly associated with Renaissance tragedies, most popularly [[Shakespeare]], that are owed to Seneca, are revenge tragedies, structure of five acts, use of elaborate speeches, [[Soliloquy|soliloquies]], and [[asides]], violence and horror performed on stage (as opposed to Greek tragedies in which all such actions occurred off stage), and an interest in the human condition, morality of nobility, and the supernatural, specifically with its human connection.<ref name="Wise, Jennifer 2003"/>

Rome also used the Greek language as a model on which to aid the expansion of its power and secure a language for its empire. According to L. G. Kelly, author of ''The True Interpreter: A History of Translation Theory and Practice in the West'' (1979), "Western Europe owes its civilization to its translators."<ref>Hornblower, and Spawforth, eds. "Translation." The Oxford Classical Dictionary. 3rd ed. 2003. Print</ref>