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-6th cent. BCE
-first actor; stepped out of chorus and took on persona of character
-first hypokrite- answerer
-tragic playwright |
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| ARISTOTLE'S SIX ELEMENTS OF THEATRE |
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1. plot
2. character
3. thought (theme)
4. diction (language)
5. music (song)
6. spectacle |
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-384-322 BCE
-materialist philosopher
-POETICS- justify tragedy as legitimate form diff from epic poems
-mimesis is how humans learn
-theatre= pleasure and instruction |
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-429-347 BCE
-greek idealist philosopher
-"allegory of the cave"
-metaphor for how we see reality
-ideal reality is objective but transcendent
-material is poor copy of ideal
-theatre is a copy, therefore bad |
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-mid-to-late 400s
-7 plays extant
-introduced third actor
-altered choral structure
-ANTIGONE
-OEDIPUS THE KING |
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-490s BCE
-7 plays extant
-widely regarded
-introduced second actor
-ORESTIA (extant trilogy) |
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-late 400s
-18 extant plays out of 90
-not so popular then, now-pretty popular
-wrote touchy subject matter for his time
-"favorable depictions of women"
-changes structure of tragedy, more adventurous
-BACCHAE
-MEDEA
-THE CYCLOPES - only complete satyr play |
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-448-380 BCE
-political satire
-made fun of other playwrights/people
-wrote against peloppenesian war
-became less political after athens sacked
-established old comedy structure
-LYSISTRATA
-THESMOPHORIOSUZAE |
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-weird dr. fletcher voice
-342-291 BCE
-best-known greek new comedy playwright
-written in 5 acts
-followed aristotlean classical structure
-role of chorus was greatly diminished
-SAMIA (GIRL FROM SAMOS)
-ASPIS (THE SHIELD)
-EPITREPONTES (THE MEN WHO WENT TO ARBITRATION) |
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-first roman comic playwright
-130 works known, 21 extant
-wrote for theatrical performance, not literary merit
-"copied menander", but was very witty
-lots of music
-created comic servant
-complex plots, slapstick comedy
-wrote less pathos/moral conundrums
-MENAECHMI- source for shakespeare's COMEDY OF ERRORS
-MILES CLORIOSUS
-PSEUDOLUS
-^^both sources for FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO FORUM |
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-freed slave from carthage?
-first black playwright?
-all 6 plays survived
-adapted from greeks, more complex than plautus
-mixed and matched greek stories
-myth- not popular; truth- popular
-prologues- for actor-manager; defenses against other playwrights' attacks
-survived bc of fine writing |
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-known for Sententia (moral soundbites)
-BEST PLAYWRIGHT EVER IN ROME
-advisor to Caligula and Nero- crazy dictators, bad emperors
-9 plays survive
-OEDIPUS
-MEDEA
-PHAEDRA
-THYESTES
-most influential for elizabethan era
-(see influences on Renaissance |
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-japanese
-credited with coming up with No form
-1300s |
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-1300s
-japanese
-kan'ami's son
-perfected No |
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-japanese
-1600s
-wrote kabuki and bunraku plays
-most famous playwright in Kabuki
-crossed adapted plots from one to the other
-THE BATTLES OF COXINGA
-THE LOVE SUICIDES AT SONEZAKI |
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-1600s
-japanese
-priestess/courtesan who performed Kabuki
-prostitutes advertised services thru bawdy plots |
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-late 100s
-roman empire
-theatre=bad b/c it degraded christians and promoted false gods |
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-400s
-wrote "City of God"
-theatre=bad b/c it put christians in bad light |
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-935-1001
-canoness
-wrote 7 dramas- in response to terence's plays
-importance of chastity
-SAPIENTIA |
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-1100s
-christian mystic- saw visions
-created Ordo Virtutum- play of virtues
-psychomachis |
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-poet famous for lyrical poetry
-THE SATIRES
-THE EPODES
-THE ART OF POETRY
-drama is to profit and to please |
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-ancient indian musicologist
-authored NATYA SHASTRA |
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| -most productive playwright of classical india |
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-16th century- medieval german
-farce
-THE WANDERING SCHOLAR FROM PARADISE |
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-written by aristotle
-old tragedy?
-defense of mimesis
-6 elements of tragedy
-tragic plot
-tragic hero |
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-written by horace-poet
-don't mix comedy and tragedy
-5 acts
-to teach and to please
-unity, grace
-decorum |
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-written by aeschylus
-trilogy of greek tragedies
-end of curse on the house of atreus
-when performed- accmpd by PROTEUS, satyr play |
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-(PLAY OF VIRTUES)
-created by hildegard von bingen in 1100s
-psychomachia: battle btwn allegorical vices and virtues
-definitely performed, was it dramatic?
-music still exists
-precursor to morality plays |
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| -"Whom do you seek?" - marys looking for jesus -possible background of cycle plays -trope in 900s -liturgical drama that possibly led to cycle plays/mystery plays |
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-"monastic agreement" of 965-975
-possible background of cycle plays
-how-to guide for monks, laid out strict orders for days
-created Visitatio Sepulchri |
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-possible background of cycle plays
-"visit to the tomb"
-scene out of quen quaeritis in late 900s
-scene appears to be mimetic, therefore theatrical
-increasingly elaborate staging of this and other scenes |
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-PLAY OF ADAM
-1100s france
-possible background of cycle plays
-staged at doorway of church
-stage directions in latin
-dialogue in french |
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-written by Tang Xianzu
-first performed in 1598
-one of Tang's "four dreams" |
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| SAKUNTALA AND THE RING OF RECOGNITION |
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-nataka by Kalidasa
-best-known sanskrit drama
-masterpiece
-based on episode from the MAHABHARATA |
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-current cycle play
-since 1634
-inhabitants of village of oberammergau, bavaria, germany |
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| -treatise on performing arts, encompassing theatre, dance, music -200 BC-200 AD -Sage Bharata |
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| -chorus of satyrs, poked fun at gods, licentious -CYCLOPES by Euripides |
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| -choral dance hymns to Dionysus -had political element- 10 tribes of athens |
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-400s
-Aristophanes
-old comedy structure
-prologue- sets forth happy idea
-agon- argument that expresses POV about happy idea
-parabasis- divides play in 2; chorus addresses audience; critique
-series of scenes that explore application of happy idea
-komos- reconciliation scene and restoration of previous order |
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-Menander
-domestic, sitcom-ish
-chorus has little to do w/ plot
-stock characters- broad types
-very popular, second to homer at time
-copied by plautus and terence
-THE GROUCH by Menander |
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-tragedy structure
-prologue- intro-exposition
-parados- entrance of chorus
-several episodes/stasimon exchanges
-sung-chanted w/ dancing
-2-3 main actors w/ chorus
-long speeches, songs, scenes of stichomythia
-late pnt of attack
-violence offstage
-continuous action
-single place
-based on myth |
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-(phylakes)
-included women
-first professional actors
-jack-of-all-trades
-singers, skit players, acrobats, etc.
-ill repute |
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-fabula atellana
-400s BCE (influenced by greek mime?)
-four stock characters: braggart, comic old man, gluttonous fool, hunchback
-short, mostly improvised
-lowbrow humor, mostly about rural life
-often afterpieces
-disappeared around 0s bce as roman mime took over |
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-fabula ricinata
-200s BCE
-made fun of officials
-emperor Heliogalabus ordered livesex acts as part of performance
-popular with common folk
-serious or comic
-short, sometimes elaborate
-sex, nudity, violence
-acrobatics |
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-fabula sattica
-400s
-solo storytelling thru movement w/ chorus singing/chanting
-masks
-historic or mythic themes
-comic or serious, serious more popular
-precursor to ballet |
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-not as popular as other forms
-only 3 playwrights we know of
-no works survive |
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-fabula praetexta
-possibly celebratory declamations or pageants staged at festivals
-not necessarily tragic
-OCTAVIA- thought to be written by seneca; seneca and nero characters
-prob written after seneca died |
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-form of roman entertainment
-SEA BATTLES |
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-roman entertainment
WILD ANIMAL FIGHTS |
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-sanskrit
-well-known story of heroism and love
-epic heroes
-"fairy tale" mix of supernatural and domestic |
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| -invented story of love btwn merchants and courtesans |
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-japanese form
-elements of dance, storytelling, and zen buddhist principles
-shite, maeshite, nochijite, waki, tsure, chorus, misc, kyogen, musicians |
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-unmasked actors
-comedic skits in btwn acts of noh plays |
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-chinese form
-4 acts w/ wedges
-songs
-covers months-years
-simple stage
-colorful costumes, stylized
THE ORPHAN OF ZHAO
SNOW IN MIDSUMMER
ROMANCE OF THE WESTERN CHAMBER
THE STORY OF THE CHALK CIRCLE |
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-related to sanskrit
-dance and drama
-performed in shrines in india
-visual sacrifice to gods
-adaption of some sanskrit plays |
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-1600s
-long month of pageants, chants, parades
-re-enacting life of Ram
-devotional drama form
-ends w/ burning effigy of demon
-in everyday language
-very popular |
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- indonesion shadow puppet drama
-est by 1000 CE
-intricate cutout puppets
-one person (dalang)
-nighttime (8:30-dawn)
-situation, intrigue, hero appears, battle, triumph of hero
-come-and-go |
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-(chuanqui)
-later southern form of zaju (mid 1300s)
-longer and more complex
LUTE SONG by Gao Ming |
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-1600s Ming alters southern form (kunqu)
THE PEONY PAVILLION by Hsien-tsu; 55 acts |
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-1200s-1500s
-liturgical drama/processions backgrounds
-cycles- guilds take different sections
-pageant wagons, true processional, stop-and-go processional, audience processional
-stationary: mansion, platea |
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-late medieval
-allegorical plays
-presence of pagan elements
EVERYMAN
CASTLE OF PERSEVERANCE |
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-apocryphal events and marvels
-CROXTON PLAY OF THE SACRAMENT (1400s/1500s) |
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-1600s-1800s
-historical play glorifying samurai
-dance
-domestic drama
-spec FX, lots of scenery
-loyal, good, courageous men; villain; comic roles; children's roles
-onnagata- men playing women in white face and rouge
-elaborate costumes, patterned makeup
-emblematic props
-stylized movement:
kata: movement forms
ma: pauses
mie: extreme pose at climax of kata and ma |
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-puppeteers (ningyotsukai) 3 of them
-chanters- tayu- all dialogue
-5 acts- 3 scenes each
-act 3 scene 3= climax |
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-netherlands, 1500s
-philosophical question posed to soceties
-societies each devise allegorical dramas to answer question
-two-story stage
-best won prize given by "Lady Wisdom"
-very elaborate |
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-(mummers plays)
-based on earlier "Morris Dances" (sword dances w/ costumes)
-character dies and doctor brings him back
-father xmas, clown, fool, hobby horse, maid marion, st. george, dragon |
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-general name for costumed playlets
-for commoners, later royal events/tournaments
-royal versions are elaborate, allegorical, tailored to praise single personage |
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-1200s into renaissance
-elaborate processionals thru town
-playlets or tableau vivants
-basically cycle play processionals except w/ secular/royal emphasis |
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-form of farce in 1400-1500s
-parody sermons by parody priests
-feast of fools-type
-done by secular societies in france |
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-form of farce in 1400s-1500s
-political satire; all characters are fools
-done by secular societies in france |
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-high middle ages
-inversion of status
-lesser clergy can ridicule superiors
-"Bishop Fool" presided over |
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-the study of writing history
-history ≠ events
-history is fictional
SEE NOTES |
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-closest to objective science
-id's and collects sources
-gathers into archive
-finds order- linear
-epistemologically objective |
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-positivist + what is left out
-uncovers more to fill in gaps
-linear and evolutionary
-epistemologically objective |
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-history, archive, facts, documents- constructions of historians
-history is only linear and evolutionary bc historians select evidence, arrange archives, and construct narratives
SEE NOTES |
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| how do we know what we know |
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-6 elements
-tragic plot
-anagnosis: recognition
-peripeteia: reversal of fortune
-katharsis: purgation |
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-upper class
-not too good, not too bad
-harmartia: missing the mark, bum rap
* lots of tragedies don't have a tragic hero |
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-festival
-end of march- beginning of april
-celebrate end of winter, harvesting crops |
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-Roman
-public games for benefit and entertainment
-feature of roman religious festivals |
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| -group of three tragedies followed by a satyr play |
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-answerer in Greek
-THESPIS was first- answers to chorus |
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-"how humans learn"
-theatre can give pleasure and instruction |
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| mistake, flaw; not wickedness, not sin, but a "missing the mark", a bum rap |
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| major emotional flavor or sentiment in audience |
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ultimate rasa
-wholeness, unity, peace |
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-actions used to express rasas
- 8 of them- one for each rasa |
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| actor-manager in all productions a troupe does |
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with-heartedness
describes trained/specialized audience members that attend sanskrit drama |
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-doer in Noh
-usually masked
-in need of letting go
-undergoes transformation
-maeshite -> nochijite |
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-side-man in Noh
-unmasked- guides shite into realization |
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-Noh
-"gentle gracefulness, "subtle mystery"
-mysterious beauty of impermanence that combines elegance with awareness of fragility |
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| men playing women in whiteface and rouge in KABUKI theatre |
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| movement forms, building blocks/vocab of movement in KABUKI |
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pauses between movements in kata
KABUKI |
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extreme expressive pose at climax of series of kata and ma
KABUKI |
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| highest class of female entertainers in NOH and KABUKI |
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bridge out into audience
KABUKI |
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| bridge-like section in NOH connecting main stage protruding into the kensho and connecting stage with nagami no ma |
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set structures tied down to a particular locale
ex- Heaven and Hellmouth
used in cycle and morality plays
contained special effects |
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neutral space in front of mansions
becomes whatever the scene requires
used in morality and cycle plays |
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-atellan farce
-Braggart (Bucco)
-comic old man (Poppas)
-gluttonous fool (Maccus)
-hunchback (Dossenus) |
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| battle between allegorical vices and virtues in Ordo Virtutum |
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processional staging in england of cycle plays
6? 8? wheels |
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| FOURTH LATERAN COUNCIL OF 1215 |
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-possible background of cycle plays
-transubstantiation
-made transubstantiation for everyone all the time |
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