About the Author
He is the author of the "Theban Plays" (Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus)
Who is Sophocles.
This civilization made tragedy into an art.
Who were the Greeks?
This city was where tragedies were produced as part of religious festivals.
What is Athens?
The other two plays in the series with Antigone?
What are Oediups Rex and Oedipus at Colonus?
This drama element is when two characters speak to one another.
What is dialogue?
This is the number of Sophocles's play that exist today out of a total of more than 100.
Who is seven?
Downfall, usually ending with destruction or death.
What is the ending for the hero in a Greek tragedy?
The part of a Greek play usually chanted (or sung) in unison.
What is the Choral Ode?
The king and queen of Thebes.
Who are Laius & Jocasta?
or
Oedipus & Jocasta
Typically formatted in italics, the most famous example of this element is found in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale: "Exit, pursued by a bear."
What are stage directions?
It is the golden age in ancient Greece.
What is the nickname of the time period when Sophocles wrote his plays?
Pity and fear, wonder and awe.
What are the emotions of tragedy?
Masks with built-in megaphones and platform shoes.
What did actors in a Greek tragedy wear? (what are costumes?)
"Your son will kill his father and marry his own mother."
What is the prophecy of Oedipus?
King Henry: "This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a-tiptoe when the day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. ...We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day." — Henry V, Act 4, Scene 3
What is a monologue?
This was Sophocles's age when he won his first drama competition.
What is 28?
A greek hero brought down by an act of injustice or their own pride, quickness to anger, or misjudgmeent.
What is hamartia?
A group of actors that move and sing together, acting as on character.
What is the Chorus?
Both mother and wife of Oedipus.
Who is Jocasta?
Cassio: [Takes Desdemona’s hand]
Iago: [To himself] "He takes her by the palm: ay, well said, whisper: with as little a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio. Ay, smile upon her, do; I will gyve thee in thine own courtship." — Othello, Act 2, Scene 1
What is a soliloquy?
This is the number of actors Sophocles cast in his plays.
What is 3?
Horrible truth that leads to release.
What is catharsis?
The Greek word for actor?
What is hypokrites?
The decree of Creon that begins the action of the play
What is to not bury Polynieces?
Beatrice: I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior Benedick: nobody marks you.
Benedick: What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?
Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick? Courtesy itself must convert to disdain, if you come in her presence.
Benedick: Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted...
What is dialogue?