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22 Cards in this Set
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Aristotle's Elements of Drama
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Classical Modern
Plot Plot Character Character Thought Theme Diction Language Music Acting Spectacle Stagecraft |
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qualities of drama/ theatre/ performance
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· public/private experience
· ritual/ceremony · impersonation/role-playing · performance/art |
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cultural context for Medea
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Context 1: A MORE SECULAR ATHENS
Context 2: PELOPONNESIAN WAR (431 BC) |
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cultural context for Lysistrata
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AKROPOLIS
PARTHENON Peloponnesian War Thucydides – to come! |
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cultural context for Midsummers Night Dream
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world:
rennaisance humanism puritans audience stage: elizabethan playhouse the globe licensed theatres shareholding companies |
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greek dramturgy (Medea)
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EXPOSITION
STICOMYTHIA- single alternating lines between characters REVERSAL RECOGNITION DEUS EX MACHINA |
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Aristophanes’ Dramaturgy
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FORMAL CONTEXT / SEMI-FORMAL STRUCTURE
EVERYDAY CHARACTERS POLITICAL FOCUS WIDE COMIC SPECTRUM UTOPIAN CLOSURE |
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Shakespeare's Dramaturgy
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Language: Blank verse (& Prose)
Multiple Plots Parallels and Contrasts/ Mirrors and Foils Soliloquy and asides Metatheatre |
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Calderon’s Dramaturgy
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Allegory
Metatheatre & THEATRICALITY in Characters / Themes / Settings & Action |
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cultural context of Life is a Dream
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Spanish Golden Age:1580-1680 (prolific period--30,000 plays
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literary conventions of greek/ english renaissance
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MYTH
CHORUS SCENES & CHORAL PASSAGES NO VIOLENCE |
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literary conventions of spanish renaissance
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Theatrical / Performance
Dramatic / Literary |
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performance conventions of greek/ english renaissance
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MALE ACTORS
MASKS VERSE & SONG/DANCE 3 ACTORS + Chorus outdoor, daytime performances male actors neutral platform stage limited spectacle no “fourth wall” illusion |
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performance conventions of spanish renaissance
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Licensed Theatres
Shareholding Companies Theatre Architecture: Carros vs. Corrales no break with catholic church women on stage |
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issues in tragedy
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· Occasion
· Space · Chorus · Roles · Politics · Scale |
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tragic structure
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prologue
episode ode climax pathos oxodus |
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greek comedy
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Shared with Greek Tragedy are the Occasion, Space, Mimetic Values, Performance Conventions, and Audiences. Distinguishing Comedy are different proportions and emphases in the plots and characters that facilitate a humorous response. But Greek Comedy’s aren’t just happy escapism.
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3 keys to comedy
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OBJECTIVITY
SURPRISE EXPOSURE/DEFLATION |
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mimesis
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imitation
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Greek MIMESIS
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Ritual, Formal, Poetic, Non-Illusionistic
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How tragedy means
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perspective AND CONTEXT FOR EVENTS
Moral framework Release, cleansing, healing |
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aspects of shakespeares comedies
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· Begin in trouble and end in peace.
• Young love triumphs over obstacles. • Romance ends in marriage or promise of marriage. • Revolve around contrasting “worlds,” often youth and age, country vs. city/court, (and here reason and imagination, thought and passion, sleeping and waking, sight and blindness, etc.) Affirm renewal in characters and society. |
