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Role of the Shaman
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Story teller
Often played many roles Like method acting Soetimes drugs are involved |
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Joseph Campbell
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Trickster Character, represents chaos, disorder, shattering of boundaries; taking things way too far.
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3 Types of Ritual
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Pleasure (food,shelter, sex)
Power (concue anad consume) Duty (to God or to Tribe) |
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What makes rituals unique?
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The Language is proformative: It doesn't sound like regular speak/they vary culture to culture
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5 Functions of ritual?
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To convie knowledge
Didactic:Greek for "to teach" To influence or control events To Glorify To entertain and give pleasure |
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humanism |
Returned to classicism of Greece and Rome, pursuit of beauty, truth through reason, search for human dignity, support art in education, free will not determinism. A renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements
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508 B.C.E
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Worlds first democracy founded by Greece
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534 B.C.E
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First Play is performed
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Thespis
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Wrote the first playwright
He played all the roles, choreographed it, and wrote the music |
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Cult of dionysus
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Greek God of fertility, wine, and pleasure
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Mimesis
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Aristotle's word for an imitation of an action
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Function of representation
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Nature mimics itself (reproduces) so humans must mimic each other for a purpose (theatre)
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Hamartia
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The tragic or fatal flaw
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Hubris
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Undue Pride (excessive Pride)
Ex: Dick Nixon |
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Anagnorisis
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Recognition of truth about ones self and his actions, moment of clarity. Found in complex plays
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peripeteia
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A change of fortune play
Found in simple plays |
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Why do humans make art?
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Aristotle's question
Because we need to mimic each other and reproduce actions |
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Didactic/Didaskalos
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to teach
writer = teacher |
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Theatron
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The seeing place where the audience sat
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Parts of the Greek Stage
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The Skene
The Orchestra The eccyclema The parados Deus en machina |
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Skene
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Tent
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The eccyclema |
wheeling machine |
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Orchestra
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the Dancing place
Nobility Sat next to the Orchestra |
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Parados
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Isle exits
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Katharsis
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A Cleansing the viewer receives from watching; release from tension
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Aristotelian 6 elements of Drama
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1. plot (mythos)
2. Character 3. Thought: ideas w/in context of ideas of character 4. diction (language) 5. music 6. spectacle (Dance) |
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The Unities
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1. Place (single)
2. time (24 hrs) 3. action (no digression, do one thing) |
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Simple VS Complex Theatre
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Aristotle's two types of drama:
Simple: Peripeteia-a change of fortune play Complex:also has a peripeteia but also a anagnorisis-recognition or epiphany |
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Plato's Cave
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Plato has Socrates describe a gathering of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them, and begin to designate names to these shadows. The shadows are as close as the prisoners get to viewing reality. He then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall do not make up reality at all, as he can perceive the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners
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Point of Attack
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A common device of Greek plays
Where the story begins |
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Dues ex machina
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God in the machine (man at the top of the eccyclema in costume playing a God) a way for authors to abruptly solve the plot of a tragedy through introduction of a god
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Theatrical conventions
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A system of techniques whose meaning is agreed upon by audiences
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Presentational
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No 4th Wall (playing to the audience)
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Representational
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Playing for the audience
More Realistic |
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"Wiling suspension of Disbelief"
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By Coleridge in 1817
Quid Pro Quo: This for That Audience acts entertained while the actors act like there is no audience there |
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Auditorium
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Roman word for Theatre meaning "the hearing place"
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Venus
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Pagan goddess of Love, beauty, and prostitution
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Audiences (diff. in periods)
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Greek: women could not attend
Roman: women and poor sat at the top, all pagan Medieval: Primarily a bunch of farmers and illiterates or people that didn’t speak |
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Gladiators/Gladiatrix
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Slaves that are offered up by their owner to fight
Gladiatrix: Women who fought outside the arena to unusual enemies |
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Edict of Milan
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Legalization of Christianity
313 AD drama in greek tradition dies |
