ENGB30 Lecture : Lecture 3
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Credited with expanding the cast from one to two actors and cutting the chorus from 50 to 12 members. Actor would speak, ask questions, comment and make chorus hang together. With second actor you have the potential for conflict. Showing the down playing of the musical element. Won first prize at city dionysia 13 times (sophocles: 18; euripides: 5) Very impressive, and in a certain sense sophocles was highly impressive. Aristotle identifies the dithyramb (=song and dance in honour of dionysus) as the origin of. Tragedies performed at annual events called dionysia from 6th century bce. Portrait of missing antagonist emerges during visits by: Thought to be a very bad play in the 18th century, by critics. They followed aristotle"s view of plays, that it shouldn"t be episodic. Begins with prometheus being chained to the stones and ends the same way. The only other important character isn"t there, and that"s zeus, who is never actually seen.
