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39 Cards in this Set
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the poetics |
loosely organized/incomplete, intelligent, explain basic problems of art, author: Aristotle |
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dithyramb |
religious song or hymn performed by 50 men became a literary form detailing heroic stories |
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Greek Playwrights |
Aeschylus: father of drama, developed it into singing, dancing and storytelling. His plays dealt with noble families and he was the master of tetralogy (ex. Suppliants) Sophocles: superb plot construction, exploration+focus on individual. Poetry is admired for beauty and lucidity (ex. King Oedipus) Euripedes: considered the most modern: sympathetic toward women, realism, tragedy, melodrama and comedy, made the gods more human, weak plots and use of chorus (ex.Medea) Aristophanes: comic playwright, parodied scenes from Euripides (ex. The Clouds) |
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Satyr Plays |
comical plays about satyrs: half man half goat usually made fun of Greek institutions |
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tragedy |
comes from tragedoice :goat song goatss were sacrificed or given as a prize to dithyramic champions |
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roman playwrights |
Plautus: most popular, wrote comedy terrence: african, was literate and intelligent seneca: tutor to emperor nero, closet dramas |
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forms of indian performance
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kuttiyattam: more than one actor on stage at a time
Kathakali:focus on gender, not consumed with looking human |
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six innovations of italian renaissance
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acting, dramatic criticism, theatre architecture, scene design, indoor lighting, opera |
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japanese performance
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kabuki: song, dance, skill (prostitute)
butoh: dance of utter darkness |
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pantalone |
dirty old man |
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zanni |
servant |
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dottore
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nerd |
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adulescenes
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young man/hero always in conflict with senex |
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servi
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slave |
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virgo
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girlfriend, young maiden |
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parasitus |
mooch |
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dyskolos |
grouch |
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senex |
wise old man foolish old man |
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chorus |
provides background, sing, foreshadow |
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capitano |
show off soldier |
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medival theatre |
miracle, mystery, morality |
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japanese female impersonator |
onnogata |
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famous roman actor |
roscious |
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first female dramatist in western world |
Hrosvith: german, theme of sensual love, feminist, religious simple and smooth |
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medival staging |
fixed :mansions movable; wagon |
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Italian theatre designers |
serlio: angles to seem like a house torrelli: shifting scenery |
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3 virgin saints in dulcitius |
agape, irena, chionia |
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3 strata of roman society: |
patrician, plebian, slaves |
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Horace |
roman Aristotle, wrote art of poetry, no supernatural elements, didn't like monologues or violence |
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representational theatre |
realistic trying to show things as they are |
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presentational theatre |
concerned with time (out of) |
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cutti |
rice paper beard |
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make up |
communicate moods and emotin to the audience |
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mudras |
symbolic hand gestures |
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Bharatanatyam |
bha-emotion ra-music ta-rhythm natyam-dance |
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five troupes |
snow: grace star:showiness sky: experimental flower: elegant style moon: charm |
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takarazaki |
all female musical theatre |
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anachronism |
combine things from different time periods |
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commedia dell'arte |
influenced many contemporary theatrical experimenters rebirth of theatre |
