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| That age has always this ill effect of making us more worldly, as well as wiser |
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| In Terence's, The Brothers, Aeschinus's biological brother |
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| Used Terence's The Brothers for source material |
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| First ancient play to be translated into modern language and staged |
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| Slave who was freed in The Brothers |
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| Recognized as the most influential of Plautus's plays |
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Euripides
431 B.C.
Main characters: Medea, Creon, Jason, Aegeus |
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Sophocles:
430 B.C.
Main Characters: Oedipus, Iokaste, Kreon, Teiresias, Antigone and Ismene |
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Aristophanes
411 B.C.
Main Characters: Lysistrata, Kalonike, Myrrhine, Lampito, Kinesias, Commissioner |
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Lady Gregory
1907
Main Characters: Sergeant, A Ragged Man, Policeman A, Policeman B |
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-Last of the great Greek tragedians
-Work criticized by Greek society
-Broke away from the normal language
-Raised in Salamis
-Shifted focus from Gods to humans
-Influenced by Sophists (wandering philosophers)
-Medea was the first thoroughly developed female character
-Of his 92 plays, 18 survive (10 of which place women as main character)
-He used huts and peasant living for scenes and dramatic effects
-Mekane: Crane lifted actors to fly in
-Won last prize for Medea at the City Dionysia festival in 431 B.C.
-His first play was "The Daughters of Pelias" (454B.C.) |
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-Won more prizes than any other tragedian in Greek Drama competitions
-We have 90 plays or poems and 7 complete tragedies (May have produced 120 plays)
-Very well regarded in society
-Served as priest for several religious cults
-Elected general (1 of 12)
-Did not act in his plays, but appeared
-Changed size of chorus to 15, added painted scenery, and added actors to his tragedies
-Some of his plays were derived from The Iliad or The Odyssey
-Nicknamed "Attic Bee"
-Aristotle turned to him for advice for Poetics |
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| Aristophanes (448-385 B.C.) |
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-Best known Greek comic playwright
-Democratic plays: appealed to the sophisticated and unsophisticated
-Conveyed political message through comedy
-Used Old Comedy: insulted those in power
-Used satire
-Of his 30 known plays, only 11 survive
-3 periods: Lysistrata written in "Peace" period |
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-Isabella Augusta Persse
-Born in Ireland
-Family "ascendancy stock": well educated, wealthy, protestant
-Married Sir William Gregory when she was 28 and he was 63
-Son: Robert Gregory
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| Wife of Oedipus, widow of King Laios, also mother to Oedipus |
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| Athenian woman, comes up with plan to save Greece |
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| Athenian woman, goes along with Lysistrata's plan to save Greece |
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Athenian woman that agrees to Lysistrata's plan.
Teases husband |
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