TH 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Bacchanalia, Daughters Of Danaus, Morality Play
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!1: constantine - a man needs to inform women what civilization really contains , oed and olympia - the opposite extreme, i want to be protected . Drama in greek tradition dies: theaters fall into ruins. !2: pagan festivals converted (mostly) to christian but some still retain some hint of pagan roots. Thursday, january 21, 2016: roots in greek dionysian festival, roman bacchanalia. Types of medieval drama (the 5 m"s: mysteries, miracles, morality, manners, mummings. !3: leaded or stain-glass windows, aesthetically the tastes change from cartoon colors to a more subtle style. The dark ages: the darkness is a criticism of thought, the death of classical antiquity (language/science) is the failure of christianity to embrace humanism - petrarch. !4: oberammergau hymm, biggest social event oberammergau has, there has been a play for 375 years, people of oberammergau vowed to perform a. Passion play every 10 years if they were spared from the plague.
