The earliest Greek stories were mainly about the Greek Gods.
The earliest recorded author of Greek plays is Thespis, who is credited with being the first actor in ancient Greek drama. He is also considered the founder of Greek tragedy.
The earliest we know of is Aeschylus.
Homer !
Shakespeare
The earliest example of a writer of plays is Aeschylus, and this was perfomed in 472BC.
Drama,comedy, tragedy
All of the above
Shakespeare's plays were recorded after his death in a single journal. The First Folio printed in a collection of Shakespeare's play in 1623.
The Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen is credited with writing the first "realist" plays.
Three of Shakespeare's earliest plays were: The Comedy of Errors Henry VI Part I Titus Andronicus
History plays are plays representing events drawn wholly or partly from recorded history.
They were popular. Shakespeare won much of his earliest success with his Henry VI plays. Actually, history plays are still popular. Or have you not heard of The Tudors?
The earliest plays we know of were performed in Ancient Greece, about 300 BC. A surprising number of these early Greek plays have survived and are still occasionally performed.
Two styles of early American plays were romantic and vernacular. Shakespeare wrote some of the earliest known plays among colonist around 1750.
"record player"