Greek In Drama

Also comedy have a several types Farce, Romantic Comedy, Satirical Comedy, Sentimental comedy, Black comedy, Comedy of humours and Comedy of manners. The Farce is a form of low comedy, whose intention is to provoke simple mirth in the form of roars of laughter (and not smiles); it uses exaggerated physical action, character and absurd situation, with improbable events, a complex plot, with events rapidly succeeding one another, pushing character and dialogue into the background. The origins of the genre are not clear, but farcical elements can be found already in the plays of Aristophanes and Plautus; The identifying features of farce are zaniness, slapstick humor, and hilarious improbability. The characters of farce are typically fantastic …show more content…
it is Knowledge of them became widespread because European culture was founded on the classical authors of Greece and Rome. From the Renaissance until the twentieth century a formal education in a European school was based on, or at least included, Latin authors such as Virgil and Cicero, and plays by Seneca and Terence. The Greek texts used included stories from The Illiad and The Odyssey by Homer; and many of the plays first performed centuries before by Aeschylus and Aristophanes, Sophocles and Menander, as well as the writings of philosophers like Plato and Aristotle. The performances of plays in the Greek culture were as part of a religious festival not in the sense of a ritual offering of an art in the form of drama but as a celebration with and for the god. The young men were called komos and their songs were called comedies. It is believed that drama developed from narrative songs in the dithyramb verse, first given by a single person and later performed by a chorus. At first there was no identification of characters by separate voices but eventually a second voice was introduced and at least part of the sung narrative became dialogue. The actor could play the hero or the god and the chorus respond as the soldiers or the worshippers or whatever was required by the story. And from this came the style of Greek tragedy with its use of a chorus and first one then two and then three actors playing the single voice parts, and the development of dramatic action. There are nineteen plays by Euripides (c480- 406BCE), which are different again from either of the others in his dramatic use of language but the themes of his plays are less powerful and at times almost incomprehensible. The best known are probably The Bacchae and The Trojan Women. We know less about the Greek comedies because few have survived but scholars have