DRM100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Rick Mercer, Attic Greek, Lysistrata

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Art- we want to see intention of art. Aristotle"s survived plays: reconstructed by many different cultures. Convenience: -write for money : change story and all for money. Practicality: long speech for other actors to change clothes. Accidents: - no original shakespeare"s script (language: interpret one letter different-> whole story changes. May have changed actual artist"s intention over time. Sparta: pelop, won, large class of slaves: hard to expand empire. > after all, macedonia rise and sparta collapse. Play had w parts: eg. oedipus story and than later funny way, same story. Topical: directly mocking current politicians (lysistarta- realistic) Fantastic/fanciful with wildly unrealistic characters and settings. Grotesque: - actors wear distorted ugly masks and prosthetics (phalluses, breasts, bottoms) Major plays : lysistrata, the frogs, the clouds. Main character has good idea that fix everything. Mock conventions of tragedy (costume is funny while story is tragedy) Lysistrata: write in other"s accent to make distinction btw us and them.

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