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Aeschylus: Gave us second actor
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Amphitheater, theatron: seeing place
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Amphitheaters: Sat 15-19 thousand, 75 yards away
Acting declamatory, unrealistic, large gestures, masks
Limited scenery, 3 actors or less up on proskene, monologues
Chorus of 12-15
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Aristotle: Wrote POETICS, study of literary expression, essay analyzing theater, physics, rhetoric, ethics, politics
Primary purpose of theater is to provide pleasure
Greatest pleasure is learning the truth
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Choral odes: 50 performers, all male
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Choregus: producer
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Cothurnus: platform shoes
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Dianora: process of thought
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Didaskolos: Teacher or director
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Dionysus: God of fertility, wine, sexuality, patron of theater
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Domestic situations: particularly romance with stock characters: braggarts, parasites, courtesans, lovers, overbearing parents, servants, mistaken identities
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Dominus: Head of Roman acting troupe
6 males
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Eccyclema: wheeled platform
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Euripides: Tragedy, gods, catharsis, flaw, universal truths
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Foundations of western theater: Started with Greeks first
Romans second
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Hildegard von Bingen: German nun
Wrote short musical plays for convent honoring saints and Virgin Mary
Beginning of vernacular morality plays
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Horace: Roman Aristotle, wrote Art of Poetry; never mix tragedy and comedy; tragedy about royalty and comedy about common people
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Hrosvitha of Gandersheim: Wrote comedic liturgical religious plays based on Terrance
German nun
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Hypocrit: leading actor
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Livius Andronicus: captured Italian Greek, dramitist, epic poet, translated Greek works into Latin, father of Roman drama
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Mechana: crane (deus ex-GOD)
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Orchestra: dancing circle
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Parados: chorus entrance
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Periaktos: Tri turned set piece
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Platus and Terrence: comedies from Greek New Comedy (domestic situations, stock characters, common people)
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Proskene: front of stage
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Roman Theaters: Free standing, built on level ground
Scene building and auditorium were single architectural unit
Scene building (scaena) was large and lavishly decorated
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Seneca: Wrote tragedies
Gave theater types of characters corresponding to human experience
More Euripides than Sophocles
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Six elements of theater: Plot
Characters
Thought/message/theme (Dianoia)
Diction
Music*
Spectacle (not necessary)
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Skene: stage house
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Sophocles: Gave us third actor
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Themes of Oedipus: Dealing with anger, pride, and fate vs. free will
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Thespis: First to use one actor
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Thinkers of theater: Homer, Thespis, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
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Thymele: altar
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Traveling Groups: Used pageant wagons
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What Greeks gave us: Art, theater, philosophy, architecture, sculpture, Hippocratic Oath, Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, democracy
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What is theater?: Communications, collaboration, live, storytelling, collaborative art form, education, transfer of information
Influenced by paintings on cave walls
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What Romans gave us: Five act structure, secondary characters, catalyzing figure of ghost from death to provoke revenge, violent and sensational plots
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Why Rome fell apart: Barbarians, rise of Christianity