Greek Drama

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What were used for tickets?

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Tokens

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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 _____.

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Public Speaking

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How much did seats coast?

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2 obols

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Melodrama

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situations are highly impossible solutions are incredible, conflicts are over emphasized, and the characters are one-dimensional

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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

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Spectacle

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religious ceremonies, initiations, olympic openings, and awards ceremonies (graduations)

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Tragedy

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the protagonist is overcome by conflict

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Comedy

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the protagonist overcomes the conflict, problem

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Important people sat at the _____ of the theater and special _______ seats with high ____ were reserved for them.

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FRONT

STONE

BACKS

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Tragicomedy

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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:

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actions of the character finally takes to resolve the conflict

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Thespian

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another word for actor
* comes from Thespis of Icarus- the first writer to use an actor.

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Aristophanes

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Most famous comic writer

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Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides

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Best knon tragic writers

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Kommos

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Lyric exvhange of lamentation between Chorus and an actor

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Orchestra

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Located at the foot of the hill
- large and circular
- at its center, an alter to Dionysus

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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

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Satyr Play

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-A play which made fun of the tragic theme
-Chorus dressed as satyrs

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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

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Ingredients of Drama:
Exposition

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part of the plot in first scene which states what has gone before and established basic conflict

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Parados

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-Entrance of chorus
- verses contain expositional background
-set emotional tone of play

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Prologue

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-Introductory section
-recounts background needed for understanding the action
-Expository rather than dramatic
-Indicates starting point

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City Dionysia

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Formal annual festivals in Athens.
- one of the city's most important religious celebrations
-5 days

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T/F- the Sate paid for poor people's tickets.

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TRUE

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Ingredients of Drama:
Climax

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When the antagonist and protagonist clash for the last time

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1st day of Dionysia

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This day of The Dionysia was devoted to processions and sacrifices.

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T/F- people from each district of a city had their own block seats?

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TRUE

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A ______ was sometimes used to allow actors playing gods to flu through the air.

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Crane

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Choregoi

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Number of wealthy citizens chosen by the archon who had to pay for the production of the plays.

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Farce

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satire of manners and customs of a person are held up to ridicule

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Strophe

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first lyric chorus sang

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Dionysus

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Greek celebrations were in honor of this god of wine.

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How many tragic and how many comedy writers were entered into the competion?

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3 tragic
5 comedy

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Exodos

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contains final action of play
*messenger speech/dues ex machina

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Theatron

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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.

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Parodos

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Actors entered the orchestra area through one of two doorways or passageways on either side of the theater called this

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Performances were held during _____________.

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Daylight

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Antistrophe

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the second lyric the chorus sane
-marked end of stasimon

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Archon

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An official who organized The Dionysia

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Proscenium

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-Where that actors performed
-Just above the level of the orchesetra
-the stage
-had neither cutain nor ceiling

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Tragic-comedy

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contains humorous scenes but ends tragically

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Ingredients of Drama:
Dialogue

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Words spoken by actors which reveal their character

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Ingredients of Drama:
Plot

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those actions the character goes through to solve the conflict