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| Classical Period/Golden Age of Greece |
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| 5th Cent. B.C.E.; Athens, Greece, when there were outstanding achievements in poitics, philosophy, science, and the arts. |
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| In ancient Greek drama, a group of performers who sang and danced, sometimes participating in the action but usually simply commenting on it. In modern times, performers in a musical play who sing and dance as a group. |
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| In classical Greek Old Comedy, a scene with a debate between the two opposing forces in a play. |
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| Wealthy person who financed a playwrights works at an ancient Greek dramatic festival; modern day producers (playwrights functioned as directors) |
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| The most important Greek festival in honor of the God Dionysus,and the first to include drama. |
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| Leader of a Roman acting troupe. |
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| Early medieval church drama, written in Latin and dealing with biblical stories |
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| Individual scenic units used for the staging of religious dramas in the Middle Ages |
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| Medieval drama designed to teach a lesson. The characters were often allegorical and represented virtues or faults. |
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| Also called cycle plays; short dramas of the Middle Ages based on events of the Old and New Testaments and often organized into historical cycles. |
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| Hellenistic Greek and Roman comedies that deal with romantic and domestic situations |
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| Classical Greek comedy that pokes fun at social, political, or cultural conditions and at particular figures; no climactic strucutre, large cast of characters; include debate and parabasis |
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| A circular playing space in ancient Greek theatres; in modern times, the ground-floor seating in a theatre auditiorium. |
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| During the Middle Ages, one who supervised the mounting of mystery plays |
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| Originally a Roman entertainment in which a narrative was sung by a chorus while the story was acted out by dancers. Now used loosely to cover any form of presentation that relies on dance, gesture, and physical movement without dialogue or speech |
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| Scene in classical Greek Old Comedy in which the chorus directly addresses the audience members and makes fun of them. |
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| In classical Greek drama, the scene in which the chorus enters. Also, the entranceway for the chorus in Greek theatre. |
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| Elevated stage with no proscenium |
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| One of the three types of classical Greek drama, usually a ribald takeoff on Greek mythology and history that included a chorus of satyrs, mythological creatures who were half-man and half-goat. On festival days in Athens, it was presented as the finaly play following three tragedies. |
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| Stage house in a Roman theater |
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| Where the audience sat in an ancient Greek theatre. |
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| Synonym for "performer"; from Thespis, who is said to have been the first actor in ancient Greek theatre |
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| In classical Greece, three tragedies written by the same playwright and presented on a single day; they were connected by a story or thematic concerns |
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| Drama from the Middle Ages performed in the everyday speech of the people and presented in town squares or other parts of cities. |
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| Low platform mounted on wheels or castors by means of which scenery is moved on- and offstage |
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| Aeschylus (Tragic Dramatist) |
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| considered the 1st important Greek dramatist; called for a second actor who played different roles w/ diff. masks; reduced chorus to twelve; interaction=start of drama; dealt with nobility and intellect, master of the trilogy (Agamemnon) |
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| Raised chorus to 15; added 3rd actor which equaled more flexibility and characters on stage; dramatic construction |
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| considered most modern of the three; sympathetic portrayal of female characters, increased realism, mixture of tragedy with melodrama and comedy and skeptical treatment of the gods |
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| First opening scene, chorus follows, episode between characters, first choral song, alternation between character episodes and choral songs. |
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| climactic structure; raised questions about fate, pride, and the ironic nature of human events |
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| semi-circular seating built into the slope of the hill on the side of the Acropolis; good acoustics; dignitaries sit in the front |
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| daughter of King Oedipus; both brothers die fighting each other, she wants to give him a proper burial and dies because of it, King Creon is left alone. |
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| Large oval, circular, or semicircular outdoor theatre with rising tiers of seats around an open playing area; also, an exceptionally large indoor audtiorium; cut outside of a hill usually--15 to 17,000 people |
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| first significant work of dramatic criticism: six elements: plot, character, thought or theme, language, music, and spectacle |
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| 2 centuries after Aristotle; revivals of plays, exaggeration and ornateness |
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| dedicated to Jupiter, bcame the first major Roman festival to incoporate theatre. |
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| domestic situations, recurring stock types, motivated by romance and sensuality |
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| more literary and less exaggerated; Phormio= two cousins overcoming their faters' objections to their lovers; emphasis on verbal wit; spoken not sung |
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| Chorus not integral to the dramatic action; emphasized violence |
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| argued that tragedy and comedy must be distinct genres or types of drama, and that tragedy should deal with royalty; comedy should depict common people |
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