HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Theatre Of Ancient Greece, Dionysia, Aeschylus
11 Jan 2020
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Theatre talks about longer history of theatre going all the way back to egyptian times and early africa (whenever someone walks down a stage its theatre) 1 first great age of theatre birth of aeschylus (525 b. c. ) to the death of aristophanes (385 b. c. ) City dionysia in celebration of the god dionysus is most famous. 1 dionysus (gods of pleasure and wine) honored by performances of dithyrambs (lyric hymns sung and danced by chorus of fifty), tragedies and comedies. 1 religious in origins, but by 6th and 5th centuries theatre was closely tied to the state: communal and publicly funded; creation of contest (534 b. c. first contest) 1 theatres sat between fourteen and fifteen thousand people. 1 masks: worn by actors and covered entire head, practical in nature and were naturalist representations of types, masks in comedy more varied than in tragedy. The chorus (represents the ideal evidence or the state itself/community on stage acts as an emotional brige)
