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drama
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play written in prose or verse that tells a story through dialogue and actions performed by actors impersonating the characters of a story.
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purpose of drama
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To Entertain AND/OR instruct
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how does drama imitate life?
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it is a MIRROR of SOCIETY
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characters
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represented by players
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action
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Described by gestures and movement
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thought
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implied by dialogue, words, and action
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spectacle
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Represented by scenery, music, and costume
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audiences
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respond to this complex mixture
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plot
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term for the action of a drama – the causal sequence of events.
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exposition
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an explanation of what happened before the play began and of how the characters
Arrived at their present situation.
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suspences
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tension as the play progresses to further develop the rising action
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climax
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greatest tension is achieved when a revelation is achieved, usually by chief character(s)
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falling action
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drama reaches its conclusions and the characters understand their circumstances
And they better than they did at the beginning of the play.
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setting
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– time/place. Also the scenery and the physical elements that appear onstage to vivify the author’s stage directions.
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Everything the Greeks do is to please who?
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the gods
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drama festivals happen
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2 times a year verse 1 time every four years.
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when do plays begin?
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morning
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The individual is only as good as the good that he does for ....
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the polis
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Comedy is meant
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to entertain
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Greek tragedies main purpose was to
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instruct
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How many actors did the Greek play have?
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three actors
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What are the Greek unities
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time, place, and action
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? mandates that the events that evolve in a play must take place in less that a 24 hour time period (?) in one setting (?) and one plot (?)
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time
place
action
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a perfect unity in time would be
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real time
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catharsis is
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what the audience goes through and about the audience purging the emotions of pity and fear.
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in Oedipus people feel fear because
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it shows that the gods have complete control of your life before you are born and then the gods can do that to you but then you realize the gods only care about the nobles in society.
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memisis
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an imitation of an action
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The thought is implied by
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action and dialogue
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aside
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a quick little phrase that shows what his intentions when its assumed that other characters on stage don’t hear it but it it’s intended for the audience.
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Soliloquy
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is a device often used in drama whereby a character speaks to himself, relating his thoughts and feelings, thereby also sharing them with the audience
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dramatic irony
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Stuff that the audience knows but the characters don’t.
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How does drama differ from other parts of literature?
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It is meant to be seen and performed. It’s about life and real issues. It’s you and everyone else laughing. It’s where everyone can be a part of the experience. In drama you know things by people orally saying it and also by the actions seen. Everything plays together for the audience to instruct or entertain the audience.
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Chorus
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mass group that sang and danced in greek tragedy, usually chanted in unison giving advice and commentary on the action but rarely partitpating in the action. It is made up of 3 parts, which are stage directions while they are singing.gives advice to the audience
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delphi
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center of the Earth, Apollo deemed Delphi the main location for others to worship him.
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exposure
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when they would put the child that they didn’t want on a rock and expose it to the world and the gods would choose if they child dies or survives
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Athenians were know for
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democracy, education, and individuality
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Spartans were known for
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military excellence and idolized greek god Aries.
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purgatory
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place for sinners to be purified that weren’t good enough to go to Heaven but not bad enough to go to Hell. Protestants didn’t believe this because they believe just believing in God was enough. England was mostly a protestant and the Catholics were punished. This is why it was weird because the ghost was Catholic.
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Unhousel'd
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not allowed to received the eucharist
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unanointed, unanel'd
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not being allowed to have the oil on head. Since Hamlet was murdered he wasn’t able to receive the last sacrament and confess his sins. The ghost is still in purgatory because he wasn’t able to confess
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madness
Definition
loss of contact with reality, seeing things that aren’t there, there are a number of causes,
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polis
Definition
independent city-state that governed themselves but shared same relgions, culture and traditions
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where do we see feirce greek competition?
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olympics
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olympic games
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in honor or Greek gods, athletic competiton in which all the city states of greece participated.
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what did the greek drama address
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the dynamic relationships between the individual, the community, and the gods.
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who were the first to master the art of drama?
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greeks
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necromancy
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claimed form of magic involving communication with the deceased – either by summoning their spirit as an apparition or raising them bodily – for the purpose of divination, imparting the means to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge
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black majic
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traditionally referred to the use of supernatural powers for evil and selfish purposes
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Greek Prophets/ soothsayer
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a person who predicts the future by majical, intunitive, or more rational means
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Peloponisian War
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431 to 404 BC, was an ancient Greek war fought by Athens and its empire against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.
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old comedy
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produced in Athens during the 5th century BCE, before the emergence of the New Comedy. Old Comedy is distinguished by its festive, farcical mood, by its lampooning of living persons in topical satire, and by its prominent use of a chorus in grotesque masks and costumes.
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renaissance
Definition
The humanistic revival of classical art, architecture, literature, and learning that originated in Italy in the 14th century and later spread throughout Europe.
b. The period of this revival, roughly the 14th through the 16th century, marking the transition from medieval to modern times
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Martin Luther
Definition
German monk, priest, professor of theology and iconic figure of the Protestant Reformation.[1] He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money. He confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel with his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517. His refusal to retract all of his writings at the demand of Pope Leo X in 1520 and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms in 1521 resulted in his excommunication by the pope and condemnation as an outlaw by the Emperor.
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pope
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is the Bishop of Rome and the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church. In the Catholic Church, the Pope is regarded as the successor of Saint Peter, the Apostle.
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Black Death/ The Plague:
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peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350. Although there were several competing theories as to the etiology of the Black Death, it has been conclusively proven via analysis of ancient DNA from plague victims in northern and southern Europe that the pathogen responsible is the Yersinia pestis bacterium.[1] Thought to have started in China, it travelled along the Silk Road and reached the Crimea by 1346.
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