Greek Tragedy Terms
Terms
1. Plot: The most important of the six components of the tragedy, the plot is the representation of human action. Plots can be simple or complex; Aristotle clearly indicates that complex plots are required for successful tragedies. The plot must be unified, clearly displaying a beginning, a middle, and an end, and must be of sufficient length to fully represent the course of actions but not so long that the audience loses attention and interest. 2. Action: Events happening between characters. It forms the plot. 3. Myth: A traditional or legendary story, usually the stories of gods and heroes ancient greece on which the plays of classical greece were based. 4. Dionysus: god of wine and ecstasy, was worshipped in festivals …show more content…
City Dionysia: Religious festival in honor of the god Dionysus. During the festival, theatrical performances of dramatic tragedies were held. Medea was one of the play performance during the festival and won the 3rd prize. People drank wine during play, usually in late March or early April. 6. Satyr play: A form of tragic comedy. a short play performed after a tragic trilogy at the city dionysia in classical Athens, usually a burlesque of mythological subjects. Chorus members dressed as satyrs (half man half goat) - followers of dionysus. 7. Agon: debate; contest; plots surround horrific acts; agon between characters, and between characters and chorus, over which action to take 8. Chorus: The group of actors who jointly comment on the actions or give advise to the …show more content…
Ancient Greek theatre
* Nature of the community: 30,000 citizens, adult, male, free; 300,000 inhabitants (include children, women, slaves); gender-divided society(homosocial); competition=life, importance of speech, participatory democracy, civic religion, and performance culture * Nature of the ritual: The city of Dionysia:religious festival (Dionysus). People drank wine during play, usually in late March or early April. Goes for 4-5 days, celebrate military victory, sacrifice, procession of phalli, 18, 000 in attendance (largest public gathering), publicly funded, subsidized tickets. * Contest: 3 days of tragic and 1 day of comic, song, dance, mask, wealthy citizens (choregos); chorus and 1-3 actors which are all males; 3 tragedies and satyr play; prominent military presence: Ephebes (war orphans), Chorus of young men viewed as athletes, militaristic choral dance; subject and form bound up in agon: debate/contest * Nature of building * Theatron: seeing place * Skene: booth, building, or platform * Orchestra: “dancing-space,” choral area * Ekkeklema: rolling out, cart for revelation of
1. Plot: The most important of the six components of the tragedy, the plot is the representation of human action. Plots can be simple or complex; Aristotle clearly indicates that complex plots are required for successful tragedies. The plot must be unified, clearly displaying a beginning, a middle, and an end, and must be of sufficient length to fully represent the course of actions but not so long that the audience loses attention and interest. 2. Action: Events happening between characters. It forms the plot. 3. Myth: A traditional or legendary story, usually the stories of gods and heroes ancient greece on which the plays of classical greece were based. 4. Dionysus: god of wine and ecstasy, was worshipped in festivals …show more content…
City Dionysia: Religious festival in honor of the god Dionysus. During the festival, theatrical performances of dramatic tragedies were held. Medea was one of the play performance during the festival and won the 3rd prize. People drank wine during play, usually in late March or early April. 6. Satyr play: A form of tragic comedy. a short play performed after a tragic trilogy at the city dionysia in classical Athens, usually a burlesque of mythological subjects. Chorus members dressed as satyrs (half man half goat) - followers of dionysus. 7. Agon: debate; contest; plots surround horrific acts; agon between characters, and between characters and chorus, over which action to take 8. Chorus: The group of actors who jointly comment on the actions or give advise to the …show more content…
Ancient Greek theatre
* Nature of the community: 30,000 citizens, adult, male, free; 300,000 inhabitants (include children, women, slaves); gender-divided society(homosocial); competition=life, importance of speech, participatory democracy, civic religion, and performance culture * Nature of the ritual: The city of Dionysia:religious festival (Dionysus). People drank wine during play, usually in late March or early April. Goes for 4-5 days, celebrate military victory, sacrifice, procession of phalli, 18, 000 in attendance (largest public gathering), publicly funded, subsidized tickets. * Contest: 3 days of tragic and 1 day of comic, song, dance, mask, wealthy citizens (choregos); chorus and 1-3 actors which are all males; 3 tragedies and satyr play; prominent military presence: Ephebes (war orphans), Chorus of young men viewed as athletes, militaristic choral dance; subject and form bound up in agon: debate/contest * Nature of building * Theatron: seeing place * Skene: booth, building, or platform * Orchestra: “dancing-space,” choral area * Ekkeklema: rolling out, cart for revelation of