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Ancient theatre - Theatre I

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Ancient TheatreAncient TheatreEgyptian, Greek, and RomanEgyptian, Greek, and Roman

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How do we know history happened?

Someone thought it was important enough to write down.

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First recorded performance

Passion Play of Abydos

Ancient Egyptian Myth of Horus

Ikhernofret Stela

2500 BCE

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Greek Theatre

City Dionysia - 600 BCE

Honored the God DionysusGod of Wine

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Dionysian Festival

Started as a singing competition between tribes.

Tragos - Goat; Ode - Song (literally Goat Song)

Eventually evolved toward play performance competition.

Mask of Dionysus

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Thespis

Credited as the first actor.

Stepped out the Chorus and began responding to them.

As the festival evolved the rules limited the number of actors outside of the chorus.

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Three Major Tragedians

Sophocles - Theban Plays

Aeschylus - Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Libation Bearers

Euripides - Madea, Trojan Woman, Hippolytus

Euripides added intrigue to stories

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Greek comedy

Made fun of society. Comes much later than tragedy.

Aristophanes - The Clouds, The Birds, Lysistrata

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Greek Theatre Architecture

Usually an outdoor amphitheater.

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Aristotle

Greek Philospher

Poetics - Outlined what makes a good story and in turn what makes a good play.

Six elements of Drama - Plot, Character, Theme, Language, Rhythm, Spectacle

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Elements of Drama

Plot - The events of a story

Character - Persons or things involved in those events

Theme - Idea the story represents

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Elements of Drama

Rhythm/Music

Language/Diction

Spectacle

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PaperMan

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Roman Theatre

Mostly copied the greeks.

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Surviving playwrights

Terrence - Comic Playwright, Adelphoe(The Brothers)

Plautus - Comic Playwright, Manaechmi

Seneca - Tragedy, adapted greek tragedies for Roman Audience.

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A Roman Culture evolved

Rome moved from a Republic to an Emperor

As this happened their tastes moved from live theatre toward more violent entertainments

Bloodsport, gladiators, and Chariot races.