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What is a Tragic Hero?
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A good person with a fatal flaw.
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What is Hubris?
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too much pride because then you put yourself on the same level as the gods.
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What is Catharsis?
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purging of tragic emotion specifically pity and fear. must happen to the audience.
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Stock Characters:
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- Lovers: did not wear masks, most realistic.
- Masters: old man with cheating young wife, young man who likes war, crazy old guy. - Servents: Zanni, cleverest or stupidest. |
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Who is Zanni:
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Arlecchino: a.k.a Hurlequin
so stupid and accidently causes things to happen or purposfully. |
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What is Lazzi:
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Stage business that you expect to see from one of the, or some of the, stage actors.
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When was melodrama started and when was it popular?
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started: 1700's France
popular: 1800's Europe after it had spread. |
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What event had a tremendous impact on melodrama?
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Industrial Revolution:
- mechanization - ben hur - train |
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What is poetic Justice?
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When people get what they deserve
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Where was Henrik Ibsen from?
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Skien, Norway. Born 1858
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How did realism affect the design of theatres, century?
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they became much smaller and much more intimate, 1900's.
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What is Eugene Scribe known for?
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The "Well made play", came up with the formula but could not execute it himself.
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Quid, Pro, Quo?
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a scene in which two characters misunderstand something and it complecates the situation even more than it needs to be.
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Theatre of Alienation, who created it?:
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see mechanics of the theatre: thought that audience should be reminded that they were in the threatre see lighting fixtures etc...
created by: Bertolt Brecht |
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what is the direct address that Brecht had his actors use?
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actors would speak directly to the audience, breaking the fourth wall.
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What is "Theatre of Cruelty"?, who came up with the idea?
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really attacking the emotional side of the audience and not being afraid to hide anything, make the audience really confront themselves.
- Antonin Artaud |
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What is Dada based on?
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Chaod, Chance, Illogic, and no rules.
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Aspects of for profit theatre:
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Broadway, off broadway, off-off broadway. Producers, inverstors, any profit the show gets the investors get as well.
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Aspects of non-profit theatre:
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regional theatre: board, educational outreach, tax-deductable. state/local/fed. grants. Exempt from federal taxes. All of the money that they make goes straight back into the company.
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what is the percentage of profit that comes from box office and other sales for theatre?
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50%
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What percentage of funding does the NEA give?
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1% of what they need
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what year was the NEA established?
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1965
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Aristotle's 6 elements of Drama:
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1. Plot
2. Character 3. thought/theme 4. music 5. spectacle 6. diction/language |
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Who were shakespeare's contemporaries?
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- George Chapman (1559-1634)
- John Martson (1576-1634) - John Fletcher (1579-1625) - Francis Beaumont(1584-1616) |
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Deus ex machina
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God from the machine: used in theatre to solve or get out of a problem.
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peripetia
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sudden reverse of circumstances.
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anagnorisis
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the point in the plot especially of a tragedy at which the protagonist recognizes his or her or some other character's true identity or discovers the true nature of his or her own situation
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who are the three tragic playwrights?
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Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus
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2 best american playwrights:
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1. tenessee williams
2. arthur miller ?.3. eugene o'niell |
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Who rote Lysistrata
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Aristophanes
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*Lysistrata
The women of Athens and sparta plot to stop the war. What is their plot? |
to abstain from having sex with the men until they agree to stop fighting
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*Lysistrata
Who is the athenian women encouraging and reminding the other women. |
Lysistrata
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Is Lysistrata a comedy or tragedy?
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comedy
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*Lysistrata
Is their plan successful? |
Yes, at the end of the play, the Spartans and Athenians have stopped fighting and are singing and dancing together.
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Who wrote "The Hairy Ape"?
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Eugene O'Neill
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*The Hairy Ape
The main character goes by the name of: |
Yank
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*The Hairy Ape
This play examines which social problem that was exacerbated by the industrial revolution |
Seperation of the upper and lower classes
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What does Mildred say that upsets the main character?
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"Oh the filthy beast!"
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How did the hairy Ape end?
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the main character was killed by an angry gorilla, and left in a cage at the zoo.
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