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How Tragic
Utterly Theatrical
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Potent Quotables
100
His fall gives tragedy its power.
Who is the Tragic Hero?
100
The hedonistic god of wine and fertility.
Who is Dionysus?
100
The name of the "dancing circle" was eventually changed to this musical moniker.
What is the orchestra?
100
Sequence of events, intimately connected to the tragic hero.
What is Plot?
100
“I know you are all sick, / yet there is not one of you, sick though you are, / that is as sick as I myself.”
Who is Oedipus?
200
A study of man’s fate or of men in conflict
What is Greek Drama?
200
Followers of the god of wine and fertility.
Who are the Maenads?
200
Placed inside the dancing circle or stage, it was used in religious ceremonies that helped give birth to the theater.
What is an altar?
200
Greek drama typically has four or five of these.
What are episodes?
200
“Were his eyes straight in his head? Was his mind right / when he accused me in this fashion?”
Who is Creon?
300
Excess of an otherwise commendable trait.
What is the tragic flaw?
300
The location of the festival that held a competition of plays.
What is Dionysia or the City Dionysia?
300
Showed audience, who was often far away, the actor’s emotions
What is the mask?
300
When Teiresias tells Oedipus that he killed Laius.
What is rising action?
300
“I beg you, Oedipus, trust him in this, / spare him for the sake of this his oath to God, / for my sake, and for the sake of those who stand here.”
Who is Jocasta?
400
The tragic hero does more than tumble; he...
What is falls?
400
First to step from the chorus and speak; considered the first actor.
Who is Thespis?
400
The crane that lowered a god to the stage near the end of a drama; pioneered by Sophocles
What is the machina or mechane?
400
A situation created when the viewer or reader has knowledge that the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
400
“Why should one / look to the Pythian hearth? Why should one look / to the birds screaming overhead?”
Who is Oedipus?
500
Emotional purification or release through situations in drama.
What is catharsis?
500
Esteemed Greek dramatist surpassed in reputation and greatness by Sophocles.
Who is Aeschylus?
500
Three sided flats that turned to suggest location changes
What are pariaktoi?
500
When Oedipus realizes that he murdered his father and married his mother.
What is the climax?
500
“I know, that he well knows the country of / Cithaeron, how he with two flocks, I with one / kept company for three years.”
Who is the Messenger?