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Greek Drama - Coggle Diagram
Greek Drama
types of plays
tragedy
based on myths and stories - learn a lesson -
tragic cycle - prosperity - pride - gods jealousy - reckless impulse and characters ignores warnings - gods get venegance
comedy
entertain,
satyr
commented on society
features/ how they were performed
masks/ costumes
large exagerated mask
to be seen from the back
people stomping and getting involved
tickets of ivory wood lead and bone
play example
women
antigone - sophocles
woman wants to bury her brother but king (creon) orders her not to
creon is view of women: suggests and expects women to obey
antigone is defiant
the purpose of plays
medea - euripides
medea wants to kill her sons for revenge for unfaithful husband
shows grief and life - the audience is emerged in the tragedy
oliver tapin suggests 'tragedy helps understand life and cope as we are forced to live vicarously through the terrible story" and how "terrors can be confronted"
what do they tell us
women
women had power and dominant roles in tragedys and comedies
theatres
tiered seating into mountain, good acoustics,
origins
what was the purpose