... 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- ... never b 4 g Jean Baptist Poquelin=Moliere, dominated comic stage. 6 elements oftragedy plot ,characters .thought civitas, Diction music, spectacle.Formalstructureoftragedy=Prologue=background in...

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... culture between 600 and 200 BC. They created plays that are still considered among the greatest works of art in theater. Greek tragedy and comedy originated with the chores, and because of this, the most important part of the performance space was the orchestra. Tragic chores consisted of 12 to 15 dancers, unlike the three actors in 5th - century Athenian tragedy. Ordinarily, each actor would ... good ideas to put in plays. The prose, the lyrics, and the dancing were the three composing elements of tragedy. The tragedy was beginning with the entrance of the chores or the orchestra auode...

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... the boundaries between Tragic, Comedic, and Epic poetry. Comedy is considered to be a "lower form" of tragedy, and is not accompanied by the same degree of history due to its previous lack of seriousness. Although there are differences between Epic and Tragic poetry, Tragic poetry contains all the same elements as Epic, but Tragic holds elements that Epic poetry does not. Aristotle differentiates by claiming ... that "Epic poetry agrees with Tragedy in so far as it is an imitation in verse of characters of a higher type. They differ in that Epic poetry admits but one kind of meter and i...

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