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The Origins of Greek Drama
dithirams
"became theater" because of one actor acting insted of just singing
thespis is thought to have been the first actor
used masked to help create difrent carachters
One actor with a corous
The leading citizens of Athens thought it was important to get together and see plays at questioned the values the state
thought to make you a better peroson by watching and questioning throught the eyes of the charater
Aristotle Wrote the Poetics to explay what made a tragedy important
Cartharsis
is the purring of emotions through pity and fear
Tragedy is composed of 6 parts
Thought
Spectacle
Song
Character
Diction
Plot
mostly noble and illustrious characher whose misfortune is brought ablut nit by vice or depravity, but by some error or frailty
Reversal
Recognition
Scene of suffering
pisitratous
thought that celebration of dionice would help unite the people
took the spring celibrations and made them important
they became the center of theater
dythram compititions becoem popular
everyon came to the plays
three playwrites would compeat
linked they had to write three linked tragedies and one satire play
The Choregos was the producer of the play
playwriters took on the jobs of director, set desiner, and or actor
486 BCE comedy compitition was added
after the dythrams were shown ten men voted on the best.
winner received an ivy wreath, sacrificial animals, and a big banquet
athins theator
an amplatheater carved in to a hill side
started with no seats now has seat
Theatron
or "seeing place" was the seated sections
The chorus preformed on a flat part called the
Orchestra
the center of the orchestra was the
Thymele
/Altar
Skene
a dressings hut
used for the chaning of maks.
all actors whor masks made of linen and had hair atached
tragic actors wore robes and platform shoes called
Cothurni
Paradoi
are the exits off stage
used for lage entrences of chorous
The Deus Ex Machina
or the God in the machine allowed actors to descend from the sky to play their rolls as gods
tragidy hit it's popularity in the 15 century
Aeschylus wrote 90 plays but we only have 7
Sopholes Wrote 120 but we only have 7
Euripides wrote 92 but we only have 19