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Theater of the Ancient Greeks
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Where is the evidence?Vases
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Where is the evidence?Plays
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Where is the evidence?Architecture
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Dionysus, the god of wine and the cycle of the seasons, became associated with the theatre festival of the Greeks, called the City Dionysia.
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Theatre in Athens
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A complete event: civic, religious, historic, entertaining, social, competitive
The height of Greek theatre was in the 5th Century BC
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Theatre at Epidauros
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Plays performed outdoors
All male cast
Actors wore masks, costumes, raised shoes
Competition for best play
A minimal number of featured performers on stage at a time…2, 3, or 4
A large chorus of about 15 performed songs and dances
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Aristotle (384-322-BCE)
Wrote an important description of the theatre of the generation before him: The Poetics
We only have a fragmentHe deals only with tragedy, which he says derives from “goat song”.
A great tragedy has unity of action
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Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
Euripides: Electra
Aeschylus: The Oresteia
Important Figures from
the
Theatre of the Greeks
Oedipus and the Sphinx
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Theatre words from the Greek
Skene: the building behind the acting areaParados: the procession of the chorus
Orkestra: the acting area
Chorus: the group of actors commenting on the action
Theatron: the seating area
Antagonist and Protagonist
Thespis: the “first” actor (534 BCE)