Greek Drama
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- What were used for tickets?
- Tokens
- Because the Greek actor could hardly change facial expression while on stage, the Greek acting style was broader, more formal and cermonial-perhaps closer to _____.
- Public Speaking
- How much did seats coast?
- 2 obols
- Melodrama
- situations are highly impossible solutions are incredible, conflicts are over emphasized, and the characters are one-dimensional
- Chorus
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groups of 12-15 men who sometimes spike directly to audience, at other times danced, chanted or sang in unison
-used to recall and interpret past events, comment on the action, or foretell future
*role of importance varied from play to play - Spectacle
- religious ceremonies, initiations, olympic openings, and awards ceremonies (graduations)
- Tragedy
- the protagonist is overcome by conflict
- Comedy
- the protagonist overcomes the conflict, problem
- Important people sat at the _____ of the theater and special _______ seats with high ____ were reserved for them.
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FRONT
STONE
BACKS - Tragicomedy
- contains elements and qualities of the earlier two styles and is often more suitable for representing a complex, uncertain, and often irrational world than either one alone.
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Ingredients of Drama:
Resolution: - actions of the character finally takes to resolve the conflict
- Thespian
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another word for actor
* comes from Thespis of Icarus- the first writer to use an actor. - Aristophanes
- Most famous comic writer
- Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
- Best knon tragic writers
- Kommos
- Lyric exvhange of lamentation between Chorus and an actor
- Orchestra
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Located at the foot of the hill
- large and circular
- at its center, an alter to Dionysus - Episodes and stasimon
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-action begins w/first episode, followed by parados
-fixed to 5 episodes
-Separated by complete choral odes-stasima
-choral leader-stasimon - Satyr Play
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-A play which made fun of the tragic theme
-Chorus dressed as satyrs - Skene
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-three-doored building that served as a retiring place for the actors and as a background for performace
-behind stage, facing audience
-painted to look like the setting
-our word scenery comes from this Greek term -
Ingredients of Drama:
Exposition - part of the plot in first scene which states what has gone before and established basic conflict
- Parados
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-Entrance of chorus
- verses contain expositional background
-set emotional tone of play - Prologue
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-Introductory section
-recounts background needed for understanding the action
-Expository rather than dramatic
-Indicates starting point - City Dionysia
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Formal annual festivals in Athens.
- one of the city's most important religious celebrations
-5 days - T/F- the Sate paid for poor people's tickets.
- TRUE
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Ingredients of Drama:
Climax - When the antagonist and protagonist clash for the last time
- 1st day of Dionysia
- This day of The Dionysia was devoted to processions and sacrifices.
- T/F- people from each district of a city had their own block seats?
- TRUE
- A ______ was sometimes used to allow actors playing gods to flu through the air.
- Crane
- Choregoi
- Number of wealthy citizens chosen by the archon who had to pay for the production of the plays.
- Farce
- satire of manners and customs of a person are held up to ridicule
- Strophe
- first lyric chorus sang
- Dionysus
- Greek celebrations were in honor of this god of wine.
- How many tragic and how many comedy writers were entered into the competion?
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3 tragic
5 comedy - Exodos
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contains final action of play
*messenger speech/dues ex machina - Theatron
- Theaters were built on a hillside giving the seating area, or ______, a natural rise that gave thousands of spectators a clear view of the action.
- Parodos
- Actors entered the orchestra area through one of two doorways or passageways on either side of the theater called this
- Performances were held during _____________.
- Daylight
- Antistrophe
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the second lyric the chorus sane
-marked end of stasimon - Archon
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An official who organized The Dionysia
- Proscenium
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-Where that actors performed
-Just above the level of the orchesetra
-the stage
-had neither cutain nor ceiling - Tragic-comedy
- contains humorous scenes but ends tragically
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Ingredients of Drama:
Dialogue - Words spoken by actors which reveal their character
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Ingredients of Drama:
Plot - those actions the character goes through to solve the conflict