FTT 24026 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Michel Foucault, Blank Verse, Puritans
22 Nov 2016
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What"s the information they"re sending to me. Ancient greece: the greatest show on earth video. Drama innovated during this time (5th century, when they started making sculptures) Wore masks, almost as if they were a symbol of the profession. Chorus was a group, with group responses. Crucial aspect: strong emotional and thought experience. Tragedy = a play with which the events offered choices that led to a final decision. Uses relationship between past and present to say things about their contemporary society. Archeology shows that the deems were used both for living and for theatre (all gathered together to watch) showing democracy. Ecstasis: wearing masks get you closer to the gods bc become someone else. When audience takes seats in the theatre, no longer different people of different roles, they become one as they sit to watch and get closer to the gods. Ajax: a man out of time and out of place. Theatre and democracy had grown up together.
