DRAM 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dionysia, Euripides, One-Line Joke
Document Summary
Authentic, natural (usually greek) works are usually more realistic, yet the fact that a fictional world is created still remains. Artificial works tend to embrace the notion that the work is fictional, and takes it to another level. Greek mimesis, tries to mimic the real world as closely as possible. Athens (most advanced city state)- polis, democracy festivals(originally where plays came into public sphere), worship, storytelling, olympics. Politics: city dionysia (very large festival in springtime) Divine bridge: dionysus (very transitional kind of god, mortal/divine, masculine/feminine, etc) Human bridge: thespis (member of one of the first dithyrambs, broke away from strictly religious functions and turned it to art, turned the chorus into an individual event) Masks- establishes characters, esp. so one person can play multiple characters. Context 2 secular athens/ sophists (group of people who were very well-versed and skilled in arguments) Episodes- back and forth b/w actors and chorus.
