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73 Cards in this Set
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Every piece of knowledge is...
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Social and constructive
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Where did theatre begin?
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-Storytelling in Athens, Greece
-493 BC- 300 BC -Why? to Entertain |
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Which religion are stories steeped in?
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Pagan
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What were the main crops at Festival?
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Grapes, corn, olives
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What do 2 people create?
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Dialogue; potential conflicts and relationships
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Why were Greek Theatres successful and how many people did they hold?
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They were acoustically perfect because of shape. They held 20-30 thousand.
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Parados
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Entryways for actors on sides
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Kothornoi
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High platform shoes that each of the 12/13 reps of the districts wore.
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What was the purpose of the Chorus?
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They commented on the play. Before plays, they read out debts of the citizens of the time and created gossip
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What is the essence of all drama?
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Conflict
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Introduction of the first actor/second actor?
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-500 BC
-Thespis -Stepped out from chorus and acted as individual -Second actor= 471 BC |
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Huborus
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Ego in Greek
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Kerkides
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Seating on ground floor for wealthy. Used to intimidate actors.
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Tragos
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Goat skins given to winning playwright. Determined by the audience.
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Aristotle
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-Wanted to know why he liked what he liked
-Poetics- 335 BC - collection of his writings -Wrote "The Essential Elements of Drama" now known as "The Neo Aristotilian Elements of Drama" -Motivated by the need to systemize plays |
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Elements of Neo Aristotilian drama?
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Character
Plot-exposition,climax,denouncement Action Diction Spectacle Music |
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Earliest extent comedy?
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The Grouch by Menander
312 BC |
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What does Psychology say about humor?
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Humor is discovery in fear, relaxation in stress
Laughter is humorous physical counterpoint |
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When did humor enter Festival of Dionysus?
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487 BC
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Three types of comedy are:
Incongruity Dersion Automatism |
Incongruity- two things don't go together
Dersion- "my life is worse than yours" Automatism- What we expect |
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Structure of Greek comedy
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Prologue- sets up what will happen
Parabisis- unpacking of the main conflict through language Komos- happy idea |
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Commedia dell Arte
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-Italy
-1500s -classic themes relating to working class people -traveling to appeal to the masses |
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Lazzi
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Pieces of comedy in 5-10 minutes for working class people. It is built around stock characters.
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Il Capitan
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-big brawny man with little common sense
-braggert -always after Isabella |
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Il dottore
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-Isabella's father acting as her "pimp"
-Speaks nonsense, but it sounds smart -He protects Isabella |
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Isabella
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-Young, Beautiful, blonde, dumb
-Dependent on others |
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Scapino
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-Clever and smart
-Sets up drama for others and manipulates them |
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Harlequino
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-Classic joker
-Comedic foil |
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5 Elements of Ancient Greek Plays
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Prologue- start of scene
Parados- Brackground info for play Episodes-actors step out from skene and build scenes Stasimon- contains songs/dances by chorus as it comments on plays Exodos- summation by chorus on theme/wisdom of play |
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Ode
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Used as a transition between scenes in Greek tragedy
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Chalmys
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Connects mask, robe, and collar together onto body
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Genre of Farce
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-Comedy
-France in 1600s -Moliere -High physical comedy with wit -Sexual overtones -Includes puns (play on words) -Comedy revoles around a central secret -Reveal of the secret is the climax |
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Double entndres
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two meanings...associated with Farce
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Theatron
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Seating Area
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Catharsis
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Two fold feeling of fear/pity
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Parados
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Entryways for actors
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Skene
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Building behind orchestra with dressing rooms and storage
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Dionysus
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Greek god of wine, fertility, and celebration
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Periaktoi
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Large facits that suggest a scene change
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Orchestra
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Circlular playing area; "dancing place"
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Agon
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a debate
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Komos
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Happy idea
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Aeschylus
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-"Father of Tragedy"
-most theatrical -fought in battles of Marathon and Sakamis |
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Sophocles
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-Well respected in Athens
-Known for complex characterization, effective lyrics and dialogue -Wrote on fate |
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Euripides
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-Most often produced of the Greek playwrights
-Not afraid to speak his mind -Took on gov't and society |
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Stichomythia
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-Chorus debating one on top of the other in a scripted manner
-"Rose language" |
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Dithyramb
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Anytime chorus sings to Greek god Dionysus
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Thespis
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1st known actor to show individualism
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Three Unities
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rigid form of writing a play
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Theatre of Dionysus
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Largest of the Greek Theatres
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Aristotelian Scholasticism
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Synthesis of Aristotle's philosophy with doctrines of the RCC
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Old Comedy
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Written before the end of the Peloponnesian War
people could write about anything famous for caricatures of Greek leaders/attacks on society -Aristophanes |
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New Comedy
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safe themes/ mundane subject matter
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Hellenistic period
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between Alexander's death and roman conquest of Greece
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Sanskrit theatre
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oldest form of theatre in India
combined supernatural with believable always happy endings |
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Peking opera
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synthesis of music, dance, acting
china |
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Noh
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new form of theatre in japan
"talent" |
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Pageant Wagons
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Horse drawn method of staging
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Kabuki
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version of Noh for the masses
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Onnagata
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men who played female roles
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Perspective painting
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Converging lines and a vanishing point for depth
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Declamatory acting
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Actors deliver lines to the audience in rehetorical manner
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Autos Sacramentales
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Religious dramas preformed in Spain
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Corrales
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Crude platform stages
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Orchestra pit
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10 foot deep hole right in front of stage
covered by thrusts |
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Proscenium stage
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shown by invisable forth wall
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Flats
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covered in canvas and painted to suggest scenes
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skrim
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white or offwhite pantyhose type material that when backlighted, makes a shadow
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Black flies
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give depth perception to the stage
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fly space
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top of theatre. used to change scenery fast
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cat walk
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used to control lights in fly space area
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green room
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place for actors to hang out before going onstage; holding place
called green room because when the Queen attended played, emerald drapes would hang, and when she left, drapes would be put in special holding room til next time |
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loggia
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old lobby or social place; place to eat and drink
outer clothes are kept in the lobby |