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23 Cards in this Set
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Theatron |
Seeing place (audience) |
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Orchestra |
Dancing place |
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Thymele |
Alter within the dancing place |
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Parados |
Entrances where the chorus would walk in |
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Skene |
Where the greek actors would go to walk off stage |
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Ekkykleme |
Wheeled cart used to carry bodies of dead |
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Periakoi |
Large triangular pieces of scenery that you could turn for different scenes |
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Machina |
giant crane that could lift people up, and hold them above stage like with gods |
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Hypokrites |
The answerer |
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T or F: At the heart of the theatre experience is the actor- director relationship |
False |
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T or F: Theatre is much like film because different audiences see the exact same thing from night to night |
False |
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Drama does not exist without? |
Conflict |
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Tragoidia |
Greek for goat song (word for tragedy) |
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T or F: The confidant is a character that is designed to be the voice of the playwright |
False |
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The only playwright of Greek Old Comedy whose plays we still have today is |
Aristophanes |
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Euripedes |
Went against social norms and wrote Madea |
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Sphocles |
Added the 3rd actor |
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True or false: The term "slapstic" originated from an actual stick that made a slapping noice used as "lazzi" |
True |
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What was the title of Aristotle's work about theatre? |
Poetics |
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What are Aristotle's Six elements of Dramain IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE? |
Plot, Character, thought/idea, diction, Music, spectacle |
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Catharisis: |
Purpose of Theatre (purgation of emotions |
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Mimesis |
Imitation |
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Hamartia |
term meaning to aim for the target but miss |
