Greek Society
The Tragic Playwrights
Greek and Roman Theatre
Roman Background
Roman Production
100
Greek Society in the 5th century was known as
What is the Classical period or The Golden Age
100
They Sang and Danced and acted as Narrators of the play?
What is The Chorus
100
What is Aristophanes known for?
What is Old Comedy
100
What type of Government does Rome have?
What is a Republic
100
What does Ars Poetica mean?
What is The Art of Poetry
200
What City had 5 days dedicated to plays?
What is City Dionysia
200
Name the 5 scenes of a Tragedy and their meanings
What is prologos - opening scene; b) parados - chorus enters; c) episode - two or more characters have confrontation and plot develops; d) choral ode - chorus performs; e) exodos - final scene and exit.
200
Greek theatre was encamped in an amphitheatrem. Name the 3 parts
What is Three (3) parts of the amphitheatre were the a) theatron, the seating area; b) orchestra, the playing area for the actors; c) skene, the stage house or scene building.
200
Where did the Roman Comedy derive from?
What is Greek New Comedy (Domestic Farce)
200
What is the Dominus?
What is the head of an acting troupe, usually leading actor; made financial arrangements, bought dramas from playwrights, hired musicians, and obtained the costumes
300
What did Athens establish in 510 B.C.E?
What is Democracy of free citizens
300
added a third actor to drama and increased the size of the chorus from 12 to 15
Who is Sophocles
300
Three main classes of people in Roman Theatre
What are the patricians, the rich upper class who ruled the country through the Senate; plebeians, ordinary citizens who gradually gained an equal voice in government through a people's assembly; slaves, making up roughly half the population.
300
Describe who Plautus was and what work was he known for?
What is comic writer combined song, dance, and native Italian farce with characters and plots from Greek New Comedy. Best known for The Menaechmi
300
Name 5 other forms of Popular Entertainment
1. Chariot racing and other equestrian performances 2. Gymnastics, mime, juggling, songs and dances, and pantomime (compatible to ballet) 3. Hand-to-hand combat, Gladiator combat and animal combats with other animals and unarmed humans
400
The Government official responsible for picking the plays
What is The Archon
400
He is considered the founder of Greek and all western drama
Who is Aeschylus
400
What are 3 things the Romans are founded for?
What is Articheture/Engineering, Military, and Law
400
What is Seneca
What is is the only tragic playwright of note during this period
400
Describe 5 characteristics of Horace beliefs about Theatre
What is 1 play should have five acts 2 only three speaking characters should appear at the same time 3 gods should only be brought in if absolutely necessary to resolve plot. 4 drama should "profit and please", entertain and instruct the audience. 5 decorum -the language and actions of characters must fit traditional ideas of suitable behavior for their age, gender, social status, and emotional state.
500
A single playwright would construct three tragedies and one satyr play, a ribald comic parody of Greek myth, which is called a
What is tetralogy
500
Why is Euripides considered the most modern playwright?
What is his sympathetic portrayal of women, mixture of melodrama with comic moments, and most of all, treating the gods as "human and fallible." He created believable female characters and showed a greater understanding of them than his contemporaries
500
What are the Greeks known for?
What is Politics, Math, Arts, and Philosophy
500
Name 5 things about Terence
Who is possibly the first African playwright on record; used subtle expression and elegant language; used the prologue to defend his work, not to tell the background story; used double-plot situations; his style is more literary and less exaggerated; dialogue was meant to be spoken rather than sung.
500
What elements in the Roman Theater are the same as the Greek Theater?
What is the 1. cavea (or theatron), 2. the orchestra, 3. the scaena (or skene/scene house)
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