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Theatre Scholars - Coggle Diagram
Theatre Scholars
Bacchae
morwood - Dionysus smiling mask reminds us he enjoys the suffering
Garvie - There is a paradox in dionysus promising joy in the prologue
Hall - Agave had no chance to exercise free will
Foley - Dionysus directs his own play within the Bacchae
Mills - Pentheus sees dionysus religion as fake
Morwood - Dionysus disturbs the citys order
Roisman - Agaves recognition is one of the most chilling
Morwood - it is hard to fault pentheus for wanting to restore order
Roisman - Pentheus is neither completely good or bad
Mossman - pentheus is weakly viscious
Wyles - the chorus' ecstatic joy over pentheus death is chilling
Frogs
Redfield - Aescylus' victory is a rejection of the old lifestyle and a return to the old
Russel - Dionysus is a buffoon
Macdowell - aristophanes uses the gods as comic characters
Cartledge - the chorus offers serious advice
Dover - Athens comfortable past contrasts its uncomfortable state (at the time of performance)
MacDowell- Xanthias has greater strength of character than any other slave
MacDowell - the events of Arginusae cast a gloom over athens
Bettendorf - primary function is political action
Macdowell - a lot of the comic effect must be visual
Oedipus
Fagles - Oedipus is his own destroyer
Garvie - it is both fate and his actions that cause his downfall
Garvie - tiresias is physically blind, but oedipus is the one who knows nothing
Garvie - Oedipus represents Aristotles tragic hero perfectly
Higgins - Oedipus shows pride and arrogance
Tragedy
Hall - The gods are inbuilt into tragedy
Garvie - Tragedians treat tiresias with respect and those who disrespect him get punished
Comedy
Cartledge - Comedy tends to take normal situations and subvery them
Cartledge - societies couldnt have functioned without dramatic convention