THEA200 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Lascaux, Aeschylus, Euripides
21 Mar 2019
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What is theatre: communication, subjective, live, storytelling, conflict and resolution, education, course, transfer of information, entertainment, business, collaborative art form, interactive, building, holding mirror, scope (theatre of. War), soapbox, human experience, opinion, place to see live performance, career, improvisation and etc. Influenced by paintings on cave walls (lascaux cave drawings) 17,000 yrs. ago: told stories of hunting animals & rituals. Started with greeks first & romans second: greatest influences may have been the greeks, elizabethan renaissance, and. Evolution of the greek stage: building gobekli tepe, 9600 b. c. People came to it to ritualize: early greek farmers plowing the farming circle, early greek theatre started with poets writing for religious ceremonies . Sophocles gave us third actor, that was it for the greeks: euripides larger circle theatre, the above is the correct time-line for these poets, greek theatre tragedy (from the goat) - gods, catharsis, flaw, universal truths.
