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THEATRE (MEDEIVAL THEATRE (Quem Quaeritis trope
Beginning of theatre
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THEATRE
MEDEIVAL THEATRE
Fall of the Roman Empire/Ancient world (476)
5th century to 15th century
Early middle ages (dark ages) - 476-1000 CE
High middle ages - 1000-1300 CE
Late middle ages (early renaissance) - 1300-1492) CE
Early modern period (16th century)
Renaissance - 14th century to 17th century
Decline of Rome:
Competence, Christianity, size, barbarians
533 CE was the last record of theatre performance in Roman Empire. Rulers were less interested in intellectual debate and theatre, more about spectacles like gladiator sports
Last theatre was more just dialogues, passages for smaller audiences
DARK AGES
Epic verse (beowulf)
Dialogues
Village festivity/play/ritual
Exploring concepts of structures of society. Kind of experiments - make young boy the king for a day, etc.
Religious rituals/festivals
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Liturgy - form of public worship/ritual
Trope - interpolation of words of music into the painsong settings of the roman catholic liturgy. In the medieval era it was important where composers could add their own voice to the body of liturgical music
Antiphon - short passage, usually from the bible, recited by two people
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ANCIENT GREEK THEATRE
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Liminality:
(Limen - threshold)
Preliminal stage - before the rite
Liminal - during the rite
Post-liminal - after the rite
The whole idea allows re-incorporation into society as a better person
ANTIGONE
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Antigone:
Defies state laws
Goes outside the oikos
Outside the polis
To the eschatia - furthest reach
Haemon - blood? Hymen? Penetrated by sword
Constriction of throat - preserve virginity
Hades as husband? Death as marriage, rape, etc.
Negative paradigm - might sympathise and see as a heroine, but definitely a negative paradigm
Bernard Knox:
Sophocles's heroes
“The hero never yields”
“The hero’s resolve is announced publicly and is emphatic”
Refuse to compromise
“Distinguished by a passionate commitment to his idea of selfhood as an individual”
“The hero is increasingly alienated until all he can address is the landscape”
DEFINITIONS:
MIMESIS: Representation, imitation, reproduction of the real world
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IMPORTANT PEOPLE:
PEGGY PHELAN
American feminist scholar
“Performance’s only life is the present”
Believes performance can’t be recorded or else it becomes something other than performance.
EPHEMERALITY - fleeting, short lived
ERVING GOFFMAN
Appearance can never be destroyed by “reality” but can only be replaced by other appearances
We are constantly in a state of performance
“We act better than we know.”
RICHARD SCHECHNER
TIME - event, set or symbolic
OBJECTS - market value vs. value supplied
NON-PRODUCTIVITY - creates no wealth or goods
RULES - rules change but always apply
PERFORMANCE SPACES - used on an occasion
TIME:
Event time: Set sequence which must be completed no matter how long it takes
Set time: Must begin and end at a certain time
Symbolic time: Span represents another longer or shorter span of time
OBJECTS:
“The ‘other-worldiness’ of play, sports, games, theatre and ritual is enhanced by the extreme disparity between the value of the objects outside the activity when compared to their value as foci of the activity.”
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RULES:
“What rules are to games and sports, traditions are to ritual and conventions are to theatre, dance and music. If someone wants to find a ‘better way’ to perform, this better way must conform to the rules.”
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