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translates to "Goat Song" comes from the goat skins the singers/performers wore.
in the literary sense is a play that portrays a serious conflict between human beings and some superior,overwhelming force and that ends sorrowfully and disastrously and the outcome seems inevitable. |
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| What is the difference between real life tragedy and literary tragedy? |
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In the real life when we refer to tragedy, the sufferers are usually considered innocent and in no way complicit in their doom.
In literature,the tragedy of the play is brought about because of the tragic flaw (hamaratia),usually as a result of hubris (terrible pride)in the hero |
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Katharsis (or purgation)
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Tragedy brings Katharsis in the viewer,
according to Aristotle, a purifying of the emotions that is brought about in the audience of a tragic drama through the evocation of intense fear and pity |
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| An action that turns out to have the opposite effect from the one its doer had intended |
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496?-406 B.C. (5th cent)Athens
he was a tragic dramatist,priest, for the time he was one of 10 Athenian generals. One of 3 great ancient Greek writers of tragedy whose work has survived. |
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| Tragic Hero (protagonist) |
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the hero or chief character of a tragedy, is a person of "high estate" apparently a king or queen or other member of a royal family.
It is the nature of tragedy that the protagonist must fall from power and from happiness;his high estate gives him a place of diginity to fall. |
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| flaw or weakness of character=tragic flaw |
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| Anagnorisis (recognition) |
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The revelation of some fact not known before or some person's true identity
ex:Opedius recognizes the he married his mother |
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| Theater was both a religious & a civic occasion. Plays were presented twice a yr @ religious festivals,both were associated w/Dionysus. In Jan there was Lenaea and in March @ the Great Dionysus was a city wide celebration that included sacrifices,prizes & spectacular processions as well as 3 days of drama,this was their major theatrical event of the yr |
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| the god of wine and crops |
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| performed in Jan it was a festival of the winepress,plays especially comedies were performed |
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| each day at dawn a different author presented a trilogy of tragic plays, three interrelated dramas that portrayed an important mythic or legendary event. Each intense tragic trilogy was followed by a satyr play. A panel of 5 judges voted each yr for the best dramatic presentation and a substantial cash prize was given to the winning poet-playwright (all plays were written in verse). |
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| An obscene parody of a mythic story,performed w/the chorus dressed as Satyrs |
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| unruly mythic attendants of Dionysus who were half goat or horse and half human. |
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| a level circular dancing space (at the base of the ampitheater) |
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| How many performance spaces were there? |
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| Two, the orchestra and the Skene |
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| a canvas or wooden hut for costume changes also served as as general set or backdrop. It has a large door at its center that served as the major entrance for principal characters. The skene supported a hook and pulley by which actors who played gods could be lowered or lifted. |
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| The Chorus frames the play with a prologue and epilogue, introducing the action and characters under the sign of fatality. In presenting the tragedy, the Chorus instructs the audience on proper spectatorship, reappearing at the tragedy's pivotal moments to comment on the action or the nature of tragedy itself. Along with playing narrator, the Chorus also attempts to intercede throughout the play, whether on the behalf of the Theban people or the horrified spectators. |
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| masks that the actors wore,persona the source of the word person " a thing through which sound comes". Some has exaggerated mouthpieces, possible designed to project speech across the open air. The Mask covered an actor's entire head, helped spectators far away recognize the chief characters. They often represented certain conventional types of characters,the king,young soldier,shepherd,beautiful girl. |
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| High thick soled elevator shoes that made the actors appear taller than ordinary men. Probably started wearing them to gain in both dignity and visibility. |
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| There where no more than 3 actors allowed on the stage at one time,along with a chorus of 15 (the number fixed by Sophocles) The actors spoke in monologue and dialogue alternated with the chorus singing and dancing. |
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| The first scene in a greek tragedy, a preparatory scene |
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| The second scene, the song for the entrance of the chorus |
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section of an ancient Greek tragedy between two choruses,episodes were seperated by danced choral songs or odes
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| the last scene, in which the characters and chorus concluded the action and departed |
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| Apponited by the civil magistrate, there were 3 wealthy citizens to serve as producers for the competing plays. Each producer had to equip the chorus and rent the rehearsal space in which the poet-playwright would prepare the new work for the festival. The state covered the expenses of the theater,actors & prizes. Theater tickets were distributed free to citizens. |
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daughter of Oedipus: in Greek mythology, the daughter of Oedipus and his mother and wife Jocasta. Sentenced to death for defying an order that her brother should not be buried, she committed suicide.
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| king of Thebes: in Greek mythology, the brother of Jocasta and the successor of Oedipus as king of Thebes. He was also the uncle of Antigone and issued an edict forbidding the burial of the body of her brother Polynices, which she defied. |
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| daughter and half-sister of Oedipus, daughter and granddaughter of Jocasta, and sister of Antigone, Eteocles, and Polynices. She appears in several plays of Sophocles: at the end of Oedipus the King |
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| Creon's kind, knitting wife whose only function, as the Chorus declares, is to knit in her room until it is her time to die. Her suicide is Creon's last punishment, leaving him entirely alone. |
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| Antigone's young fiancé and son to Creon. Haemon appears twice in the play. In the first, he is rejected by Antigone; in the second, he begs his father for Antigone's life. Creon's refusal ruins his exalted view of his father. He too refuses the happiness that Creon offers him and follows Antigone to a tragic demise. |
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| Though he's blind, he can see better than any of those around him. He is a seer and or prophet who warns Creon of his ways |
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The term 'sentry' refers to those Thebans who are under orders from Theban King Creon to watch the unburied dead from the recent war with Argos. One of their members, who is named simply 'Guard', has to tell the King of the burial of Polyneices, who is supposed to be left above ground for having fought alongside the Argive enemy. The 'Guard' also must tell the King of the identity of the violator, who is none other than Polyneices' sister Antigone.
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| Another typical figure of Greek drama who also appears in Sophocles' Antigone, the Messenger is a pale and solitary boy who bears the news of death. In the prologue, he casts a menacing shadow: as the Chorus notes, he remains apart from the others in his premonition of Haemon's death. |
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movement in ancient Greek drama: the first of two movements made by the chorus in a classical Greek drama, or the part of an ode sung during this.
Chorus danced from stage right to stage left |
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| return movement in ancient Greek drama: in a classical Greek drama, the second of two movements made by the chorus, back in the opposite direction to that of the first movement strophe |
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| Where was Eurydice coming from? |
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| The shrine of Pallas Athene, goddess of wisdom |
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| A decree,formal proclamation,esp one issued by government,ruler or other authority |
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| What will happen to Polyneices if he is not buried? |
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| It may offend Zeus thus not allowing his soul to enter Elysian fields |
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| a song of praise or prayer |
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| arrangement of actors and scenery |
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