Dramatic Literature
Greek Drama534 b.c. don’t know exactly. Thespis, first tragedy writer stepped out of chorus for a solo. Tragedy=goat song. Possible influence by Egyptian ritual- Isis & Osiris story. dionysia (4 celebrations each winter in Athens, featured drama contests attempting to secure fertility and crop growth-3 days long, 3tragedies, 1 satyr each, paid for by civic duty of wealthy Athenians. G humanizing of gods built temples sacrifices-G drama explains the divine approach to favor and disfavor. orchestra=center. skene=scene house, backstage. proskenion=raised stage in front of skene perform) .mekane =actors lowered onto stage and enacted roles of olypian gods messing with human affairs. Deus ex machine= the god from the machine. rescue characters, last minute, unsatisfying means of solving problems no religious text TRAGEDY, focused on person of noble birth. moira=fate. catharsis=purging of pity and fear, tragedy could only befall the great.Kenn Burke=purpose passion perception. purpose-stuff-passion=trying to resolve-perception=trajic fate would rather not face, greatest punishment. anagnorisis=recognition of perception of truth. peripeteia= figures fortunes reversedChorus=12-15 men, represented citizens, originally no separate acto
rs, wore masks. Thespis=6thc. first to step from chorus, and talk with it Agon, dramatic confrontation. won first prize for tragedy in 532bc took several parts and wore masks. Aeschylus-first important G tragedian whos work survives added a 2nd actor, Sophocles 3rd. Prologue, estb. problem. Agons- developed relationship. exodus, concluded action inbetween. parados-moving onstage.stasima-standing still, strophe-odes while moving rtol.antistrophe while moving back to r. SATYR-, chorus dressed as half beast half man ran around with a fake penis. slapstick humor.Cyclops, Euripides only to survive. COMEDY Aristophanes (lysistrata) old comedy, individuals personally attacked, coarse and brassy humor, not vicious, concentrated on farce. Menander-new comedy centered on shortcomings of middle class-social manners, vices. both equally influenced theater. ROMAN DRAMA several sources, 1st Gdrama- Etruscans, northern italy, absorbed by romans improvised song and dance. Atella- Atellan Farce-broad and coarse comedy. Stock characters, recognizable and predictable. Maccus the Clown Bucco the stupid Pappus the foolish Dossennus hunchbacked slave, Identical twins, 4 comedy masks, (romans). 240 bc, livius Andronicus, latin translations derived primarily from new menander tisque comedy most well attended of romes drama. Magalesian games- early April for cybele (greatmother) late april floral games, roman games sept. plebian games, Nov roman comedies revisions of greek plays, Chiton-tunic Pallium-long white cloak. Sock-low shoes(comedy) Buskin-tragedy. Togas-young black old white sla
Some topics in this essay:
Isis Osiris,
Baptist Poquelin=Moliere,
MYSTERY PLAYS,
Menaechmi Terence,
Buskin-tragedy Togas-young,
Clown Bucco,
Agamemnon MEDIEVAL,
Chris Marlowe,
Pierre COrneille,
COMEDY Aristophanes,
wore masks,
plays performed,
elizabethan age,
chorus enters,
teach moral,
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