THE 2131 Lecture Notes - Coryphaeus, Theatre Practitioner, Athenian Democracy
20 Feb 2014
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Challenges the audience perspective on certain subject matter ( Humans try to do the right things (harsh human behaviour. ) Mentions how euripides writes and questions audience"s perspective. Old comedy: added to festival after athenian democracy (486 bc) dioniosa and 442 bc . Old comedy dealt with political and social questions of the day in a humorous sand critical way. Comedy became more prominent during the petoponesian war between athens and spartans between 431-404 bc. Lysistrata (women have sex war, not having sex until system reforms attitude towards women. ) Loosely based plot, hero confronting problem, larger than life plan (fantastical. ) Scenes included sex and bathroom jokes, political stabs including institutions (not tightly connected to story) Parts of old comedy: parabasis: scene which entire chorus or chorus leader or playwright himself speaks as theatre practitioner directly to audience satyring political figures or institutions.
