VPDB10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ancient Greek Comedy, Metatheatre, Dionysia
6 Jul 2015
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Regular people determined what the stage should do. The democracy for certain people though: men, rich people. How did lysistrata affect the women in the audience. How would it affect people if performed today. A play changes as the context changes from then to today, the play changes a bit and the effect on the audience changes as well. Similar to tragedy: masks: mask of dionysus for example. Prob developed from a ritual/song into a theme. About human, personal, material realm vs. tragedy was about the universal and metaphysical. Tradegy: have poetics, aristotes periodic analysis, what sorts of things it produces, what elements it as. Comedy: not much information on comedy, no ancient information of comedy, don"t know how it might have worked in the past: aristotle"s work on history of comedy is the only information we have on greek comedy.
