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greek theatre by scholarship
Religion
taplin
"there is nothing intrinically Dionysiac about greek theatre"
goldhill
" Dionysus' role as god of subversion is essential to tragedy
Cartledge
"all Athenian tragedy was performed with the context of religious ritual"
audience
goldhill
the theatre is where "the city represents itself, to its self"
higgins
the dramatisation of stories nurtures a cultural identity through hardship and war"
the chorus
taplin
"the chorus act as an emotion bridge between the audience and the narrator"
Goward
"there inability to interviene highlights human helplessness"
Heinrichs
the chorus as "an act of worship to dionysus"
Carey
"the chorus bring the mountains into the theatre space"
OEDIPUS
Fate
Wyles
"human nature and fate combine to make an unavoidable outcome"
rutherford
"this is not a play about crime and punishment"
Knox
" what causes his own ruin is his ... loyalty to thebes and to the truth" -> in this way he is a free agent
free will
Wyles
"his harmartia is his arrogence, leading to hubristic behaviours"
Garve
" Oedipus does not fall at all at the start of the play he seeks the truth and the end he finds out"
character
goldhill
"hes both a saviour and a monster"
SOPHOCLES
goldhill
"sophocles uses hunting imagry to show Oedipus' search for the killer"
the gods
Knox
" man is ignorant, the gods have the knowledge"
wyles
"apollos oricle dominates the play"
BACCHAE
Dionysus
Vernant
"creates confusion fro reality and illusion, this is what theatre does"
Plot of Bacchaae
Hall
"pentheus is fasinated by Dionysus" "sexual tension is played out comically" "when agave is shown comedy turns to tragedy, refecting the duality of Dionysus himself"
Pentheus
Dodds
"dark puritan"
Burain
" his name means PAIN"
roysmen
"
pentheus
is neither wholly go or wholly bad"
women in the theatre
Cartledge
"cause disharmony and destruction when not accompanied by their husbands"
Wyles
maenads
"their estactic joy is chilling"
euripides
verral
sees Euripides as an atheist views of Dionysus is unworthy of our respect
Wyles
a symbol of royal authority to a symbol of dionysus' power
folley
"dionysus creates a play within a play"
FROGS
politics
bettendorf
" the purpose of the play is not literary criticism but political action"
macdowell
"politics is notably absent from the first half of frogs"
Dionysus
harriot
"always foolish"
russel
"coward buffoon and literary critic"
xanthius
macdowell
"great strength of character"
aechylus and Euripides
Dover
Aeschylus represents the virtue of the past and Euripides represents the uncertainty of the future
hubbard
explore the serious through the serious
Garve
characters who question Tireseas often live to regret it