Golden age types of plays : The three major forms of Golden Age theatre are the comedia, the auto sacramental, and the entremés.
Subject matter : Autos sacramentales are one-act religious allegories, and entremeses are one-act farces originally performed between the acts of a full-length comedia.
Hellenistic era types of plays : Tragedy (late 500 BC), comedy (490 BC), and the satyr play were the three dramatic genres to emerge there.
Subject matter : The Ancient Greeks took their entertainment very seriously and used drama as a way of investigating the world they lived in, and what it meant to be human. The three genres of drama were comedy, satyr plays, and most important of all, tragedy.
