general theatre

Dr Rosie Wyles massolit

city dionysia
verse
mythological
stichomythia
messenger
deus ex machina
satyr play
comedy
political comedy

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Dr Rosie Wyles city dionysia

Takes place in march - when people sail again - not just athenian but a broader greek audience

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Dr Rosie Wyles verse

they're verse/poetry - lots of singing and music that goes on in these performances

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Dr Rosie Wyles mythological

the plays are mythological for the most part so you are distancing yourself from the story

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Dr Rosie Wyles stichomythia

line for a line exchange - builds up the tension and something is going to happen at the end of that

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Dr Rosie Wyles messenger

you're not going to see someone hanging themselves on stage but will get a very graphic report of exactly how that was done and then the corpse may be revealed

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Dr Rosie Wyles deus ex machina

the god who flies in towards the end of the play who might resolve all the issues that the humans cant manage to sort out themselves

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Dr Rosie Wyles satyr play

the relief after the tragedy - comedy
sometimes the same characters you saw in the previous tragic setting reappear in the satyr drama to be laughed at

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Dr Rosie Wyles comedy

characterised by the grotesque
-padding in costumes
-exaggerated faces/masks
-******** phallus - instant humour

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Dr Rosie Wyles political comedy

very topical
commenting on politicians of the day

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Simon Goldhill massolit

relating to tragedy
foreign ambassadors

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Simon Goldhill relating to tragedy

often other people, in other cities and other places and set in the far past
plays with the sense of otherness to get past the blocks you would put if you related in order to reach a new intense emotional and intellectual depth

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Simon Goldhill foreign ambassadors

ritual of slaves parading large lumps of silver (parade of tribute)
athens showing off wealth from tributes of allies (given at the start of march) in front of them
show of power - no 1 in political and military world

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David Hodgkinson

5th century

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David Hodgkinson 5th Century

5th century Athenian tragedy is frequently concerned with the family and its relation to the state

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David Hodgkinson Pentheus + oedipus

Both men transgressed the established rules of the family and found themselves destroyed by their family

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