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Greek Playwrights
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Aeschylus Sophocles Euripedes
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Major Innovation attributed to Aeschylus
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Major Innovation attributed to Sophocles
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Third Actor |
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How many contests did Sophocles win?
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24 |
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Who did he defeat in his first competition?
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Aeschylus |
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What is Sophocles credited for?
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Fixing the size of the Chorus at 15 members and scene painting |
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How many plays did Aeschylus write? |
90 but only 18 survived |
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Satyr play was an example of... |
Comic writing |
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The only satyr play known |
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How many plays did each dramatist present?
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Three tragedies and 1 satyr play |
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The artistic centre of Greece
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Athens |
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The most important aspect of greek culture |
Central Concern was man |
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Inventions of the greeks |
Philosophy and democracy |
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Examples of plays by Aeschylus |
The libation bearers, the Persians and Prometheus Bound |
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Examples of plays by Sophocles |
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Examples of plays by Euripedes |
Hecuba Electra and Medea |
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Two playwrights who wrote a version of Electra
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Euripedes and Sophocles |
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First Actor
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Thespus |
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When was Thespus invited to perform in Athens? |
534 BC |
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What is a Dithoram
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A choral ode and the root of tragedy performed by a chorus and its leader in the early stages of greek theatre
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How far the actors in Greek drama from their audiences?
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A quarter mile from the nearest spectator |
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Why was life unsettled during the 1640s?
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The civil war between the royalists and the puritans |
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What did the Puritans sought to do between 1642 and 1660
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Step out theatrical activity |
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What did the Parliament ban in 1649 |
Acting |
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Where was theatre still performed?
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Private houses, tennis courts and inns |
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What began the restoration period? |
Charles II is restored to the throne in 1660 |
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What happened under Charles II? |
England rejected puritanism and became known for it's permissiveness, theatres were re-opened |
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Who was given complete control over theatrical performances in London?
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William Gabnet and Thomas Killigrew |
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Where did other troupes perform?
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In the provinces, Dublin |
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What was restoration known for? |
It's comedy of manners
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Who wrote She Stoops to Conquer? |
Oliver Goldsmith |
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When/Where was it performed? |
1773 in covent garden |
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What was it originally titled?
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The Mistakes of the Night |
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Who wrote The Rivals?
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Richard Brimsley Sheridan
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When/Where was it first performed? |
1775 at covent gardens |
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Where does it take place? |
Bath |
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How did it do opening night? |
It flopped, but was rewritten and re-opened 11 nights later. It is considered a comic masterpiece |
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Where does the term MALAPROPism come from |
Mrs. Malaprop, a character from the rivals |
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Who's favorite play was THE RIVALS |
George Washington
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