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CONTEXT OF CLASSICAL GREECE
Originated some 27 centuries ago in 7th
century BCE. Were staged during the
spring festival to honor the god
Dionysus.
MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
• The theater in which ancient Greek plays were performed was an outdoor,
open-air complex with seats arranged around the center stage in tiers.
• Playwrights presented tragedies and comedies during the three days of
Dionysus festival
• Thespis first had the idea to add a speaking actor to performances of choral
song and dance. The term Thespian (or actor) derives from his name.
• Competitive- prizes awarded
• Choral - singing seems to have been an important part a chorus of men,
many think the choral song -- dithyramb-- was the beginnings of Greek drama
(but origins are unclear).
• Closely associated with religion - stories based on myth or history
Aeschylus
The Orestia
Sophocles
Edipo rey
REPRESENTATIVE AUTHORS AND TITLES
Euripides
Orestes
CONTEXT OF CLASSICAL ROME
Refers to the time period of theatrical practice
and performance in Rome beginning in the
4th century B.C., following the state’s
transition from Monarchy to Republic.
MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
• Theater of the era is generally separated into the genres of
tragedy and comedy.
• The Romans took theater, like all things, from the Greek.
• The Roman theater was a method of absorbing the public into
stories and ideas that gave a religious sanction to the society and
its expansion.
• Roman theater could take either dramatic or comedic forms.
Both served a social purpose as a way of "Romanizing" the
spectators or acting as a catharsis for social pressures and
problems.
• Drama had a tendency to reflect Roman problems and political
issues, safely symbolized in dramatic forms.
• Comedy was more social and less political or military.
• Performances often featured men as good fathers whose
character flaws developed out of devotion rather than ignorance.
Titus Maccius Plautus
The Asses
Terence
Andria
REPRESENTATIVE AUTHORS AND TITLES
Seneca
Myth of Thyestes
CONTEXT
It arose throughout Europe from the fall of the
Roman Empire to the Renaissance in the
fifteenth century.
MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
• Anonymous Author
• Frequent use of verse
• Use of Latin
• Dissemination of national languages
• Religious character of much of the literary works
• Epic Caballeresca
• Tales and Fables
Gonzalo de Berceo
Sacrificio de la misa
Jorge Manrique
Coplas
REPRESENTATIVE AUTHORS AND TITLES
Caedmon
The dream of the holy rood
CONTEXT
began in the 1300s and co-existed with the Middle
Ages/Medieval Thinking. The Renaissance did not
dominate until the 16th.
Italy was the powerhouse of the Renaissance.
MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
• One of the most important details is the use of the mask in the performances
• It was an improvised theater.
• It was done outdoors.
• It was a popular theater (linked to the traditions of each religion).
• The theater at that time is represented for the nobility. La Celestina was one of the most outstanding and well-known works of the Renaissance.
• In all works, the idea is that man is perfectible, he is an unbounded, flexible being who knows how to develop each one of his abilities.
• The theater was one of the main diversions of the town in the Renaissance, the performances were represented in places located in the center of the cities called "Corrales de Comedia" where the performances lasted between two hours and average and three hours approximately.
Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella
REPRESENTATIVE AUTHORS AND TITLES
Thomas More
Utopia
Francis Bacon
New Atlantis
CONTEXT
Extended from Italy to the rest of
Europe in the seventeenth century.
MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
• Beauty predominates
• Tragicomedy
• Rule of the 3 units.
• The division into acts
• Language adapted to the social and cultural class of the
character
• Metric
• The importance of rhetorical figures
• Moorish, pastoral, chivalric, mythological themes, liturgical
matters, biblical themes.
Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote
Francisco de Quevedo
A una nariz
REPRESENTATIVE AUTHORS AND TITLES
Lope de Vega
El perro de hortelano
CONTEXT
Was born in the mid-1700s, originally in Rome but its
popularity exploded in France.
MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
• Neoclassical literature was written in a period where social
order was undergoing tremendous changes.
• In the so called Enlightenment Period, people believed that
natural passions aren't necessarily good; natural passions must
be subordinated to social needs and be strictly controlled.
• Authors believed that reason was the primary basis of authority.
They believed that social needs are more important than
individual needs and that man could find meaning in order -
religious, social, the order of nature, government and literary
forms.
REPRESENTATIVE AUTHORS AND TITLES
Happy The Man
by John Dryden
Sound And Sense
by Alexander Pope
MacFlecknoe
Shadwell
CONTEXT
Romanticism was a literary movement that
swept through virtually every country of
Europe, the United States, and Latin America
that lasted from about 1750 to 1870.
MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
• The Romantic period was based on emotion, adventure
and imagination. The name "romantic" itself comes from
the term "romance" which is a genre of prose or poetic
heroic narrative originating in medieval literature.
• Romanticism reached beyond the rational and Classicist
ideal models to elevate medievalism and elements of art
and narrative perceived to be authentically medieval.
• The individual emotions, feelings, and expressions of
artists.
• It rejected rigid forms and structures. Instead, it placed
great stress on the individual, unique experience of an
artist/writer.
REPRESENTATIVE AUTHORS AND TITLES
Infant Joy
By William Blake
A Red, Red Rose
by Robert Burns
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Christable and Kubla Khan
CONTEXT
Began in the 19th-century theatre, around the
1870s, and remained present through much
of the 20th century. Russia's first professional
playwright, Aleksey Pisemsky, along with Leo
Tolstoy, began a tradition of psychological
realism in Russia.
MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
• Trasparent lenguage
• Objective views of reality through the study of customs of psychological character. Any subjective element is eliminated, as well as any fantastic event and emotion that derives from reality.
• Defense of a thesis: each narrator write his works from his own moral point of view, even though it may compromise the objectivity of the narrative. This is called omniscient narrator.
• Issues which are close to the reader: like conflicts in marriage, infidelity, defense of one's ideals...
• Use of colloquial language: the language spoken by the characters has to be as similar as possible to the language they might use in real life, so as not to detract from the veracity of the novel.
Samuel Clemens
Mississippi
Bret Harte
The Luck
REPRESENTATIVE AUTHORS AND TITLES
Kate Chopin
The Awakening
CONTEXT
Is a movement in European drama and theatre that
developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
• Physiology as the cause to the character's conduct.
• Satire and social criticism: naturalist novels aren't simply a pastime, they're a
seriously detailed study of social problems, and it tried to find the causes.
• Understanding of literature as a weapon for political, philosophical and social
combat.
• Topics can revolve around social illnesses and other disagreeable aspects of
life, so the Naturalist writers can't hesitate when writing about the most crude
and unpleasant things of social life.
• Adoption of sex-related topics as the central element in novels as a
manifestation of a social illness and vices. This is why so many Naturalist
works talk about prostitution as a social evil and individual tragedy.
Stephen Crane
Maggie
Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome
REPRESENTATIVE AUTHORS AND TITLES
Frank Norris
Mc Teague
CONTEXT
Is a post-world War II designation for particular
plays of absurdist fiction written by a number
of primarily European playwrights in the late
1950s, as well as one for the style of theatre
which has envolved from their work.
MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
• Investigation of the relativity of truth
• Futility
• Humanity´s vain struggle against fate
• Inadequacy of communication
• Use of small talk and understatement
• Non- sequiturs
• Instability of characters/ lack of definite characterization
• Lack of definite plot structure
• World bent on destruction
• The absurdity of attempting to control one´s fate
• Absurdist fiction uses satire, dark humor, irrationality, and agnostic or nihilistic
themes to explore the human experience of incompleteness or meaninglessness. It
also looks at the range of human responses to meaninglessness, including
escapism, religiosity, and the conscious construction of a personal purpose.
Edward Albee
The Zoo Story
Albert Camus
The myth of Sisyphus
REPRESENTATIVE AUTHORS AND TITLES
Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-five
CONTEXT
Emerges in the twentieth century, in Germany,
then spread throughout Europe, especially in
France.
MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
• Existentialism focuses its attention on the existence and
issues of man, of his being, and on giving solutions to the
problems of man.
• Not only reason discovers reality: also basic feelings as
anguish and frustration discover it.
• Pessimism: Existentialists are characterized by a marked
pessimism in their ideas.
• The fact of creating its own essence: existentialism raises
that only man exists and that a regret of having a marked
pessimism is a positivism in being able to create one's
essence.
Albert camus
El extranjero
Jean Paul Sartre
La Náusea
REPRESENTATIVE AUTHORS AND TITLES
James Joyce
Ulysses
CONTEXT
in English Literature occupied the
years from shortly after the
beginning of the twentieth century
through roughly 1965.
MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
• Realistic (mostly)
• Postmodern – disconnected, combines genres/time
periods
• Thoughtful – not always a happy ending
• Written in vernacular
• Lots of figurative language
• Symbols are important
Elizabeth Bishop
El arte de perder
Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim
REPRESENTATIVE AUTHORS AND TITLES
Hilda Doolittle
Sea Rose
Esmeralda: I like this kind of works because I can see the differences in the way
people write, I mean, at some point they get a way to write and change with the
pass of the time
Luis Carlón: I think that some persons (Including me) thing that theatre are kind of
boring or maybe not just good enough to give him a chance but with this research
my opinion might change a little bit, well I think the principal reason of why theatre
is so underestimated is because we are so adapt to the movie and how are they
presented with all the color and CGI that can have that makes our imagination not
work enough because they are giving everything, but the theatre is just talent and
imagination and performance from those that are in the stage en backstage.
Juan Nava: This type of work I like a lot, since they help me to know an important
part of the literature, which in the personal is also one of the most beautiful and
interesting.
OPINION:
Daniela: It was really interesting to do this work because I learn more about things
that I really didn't know, honestly the best for me was Classical Greece because I
think it was really interesting the way they competed and I like it because I think
its nice that the contest was in the spring festival just to honor a god. I also think
that there are others that are interesting like Classical Greece.
Ares: Doing this activity helped me to realize how the theater was changed through
history, since many things were modified as the characteristics of the scenarios,
the theme of the works presented, the purpose of the performance, the actors,
the characterizations, among many other aspects that were modified.
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