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34 Cards in this Set
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The theatre of Sophocles
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Ancient Greece, outdoors, civic rutual purpose,citizens only attend,chorus, poetic verse, music and dance, 1-2 actors all male
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THe theatre of Shakespear
Key Elemets |
-Elizabethan London
Outdoors Rody audience of mixed class Entertaining and money making male actors, poetic verse, little scenery, big costumes, thrust stage |
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THe Theatre of Moliere
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Louis France, indoor, aristocrate and royal audience, scenery, luminated with flames,Prosenium stage, middle class, audience sits in dark
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The Contemporary Theatre of Today
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Eclectic mixture of styles
International influence Film influences |
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What are the three ways to analyze a play?
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Form Convention and genre/style
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Thespis
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The first actor
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The Dithyramb; Dionysus
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Ritual song of praise offered in honor of Dionysus-Still traces in Greek
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The Festival of Dionysus
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Where these Dithyramb were preformed
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The Purpose of Tragedy
Catharsis |
To purge0 done through pity and fear
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What are the two elements of tragedy
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Hubris-excessive pride
Hamartia- Error in judgement |
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The Tragic Action
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The protagonist causes his/her own downfall as a concequence of working to achieve what could be a worth will objective
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The Tragic Protagonist
"tragic hero" |
Person of concequence
Strong will power causes suffering for those around home Accept responsibility for error, gains insight |
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The purpose of tragedy
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To celebrate the human capacity to accomplish and endure
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Melodrama
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The melodramatic conflict is always a very simple one
Good v. Evil The oldest dramtic form |
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The Purpose of Melodrama
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is to comfort because its simple
good ppl are rewarded and bad ppl punished |
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The "hero" in melodrama
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Hero= protagonist
villian= antagonist both srong willed and brace |
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Comedy
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Private
Success of the lesser growth survival |
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The purpose of comedy as a "social corrective"
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Gentle and indirect in its critique
recomends balance, avoidence of excess faith in future, emphasis on renewal and rebirth NOT ALL COMEDIES REVOKE LAUGHTER |
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Laughter
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and external manifestation of an internal excess of vital feeling
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Tools of comedy
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Repetition, Mistaken idenity, exaggeration, violence, scatology-dirty jokes, role reversal
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The Greeks and comedy
1.Aristophanes 2.Menander |
1.old comedy, political social, and personal satire
2. New Comedy, Domestic Issues, Lovers |
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Farce
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Slapstic humor, extremes of physical humor
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Satine
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Intellectual humor. Extremes of wit and mockery
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"society's safety valve"
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*comedy like melodrama supports its given social order
*Farce & satire, like tragedy, generally questionists |
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Buffoon
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born dumb
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clown
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deliberately makes a fool of themselves
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Dupe
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others make him look stupid
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Rascal
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often the central character in a farce not vicious, cource of fun
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Scoundrel
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often central character in a satire, Dangerous
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The popular theatre of the 19th century
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age of actors and starts realism emerges
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Karl Marx
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focused onthe working class
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Charles Darwin
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-The Orgin of Species-survival of the fittest look @ society scientifically
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Sigmund Freud
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Interpretation of Dreams
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Alber Einstein
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Principle of Relativity
-truth shifts so theatre becomes more interest in questioning whats real |
