THE 2000 Lecture 2: Module 2 Notes
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We know than an audience can consist of various types (cultures and ages) of people, some may be similar or very different. Communal- how close an audience feels or responds in shaping the performance. Imagination allows us to become part of the world created in a production. Paradigm- a typical example or pattern of something. In grammar, a set of forms all of which contain a particular element. Metaphor- a figure of speech that identifies something as being the same as some unrelated thing for rhetorical effect, thus highlighting the similarities between the two. First records of drama and theatre come from athens, greece and date from sixth century bce. Greece has one of the longest coastlines in the world. It was not a unified nation but a peninsula of individual city-states called polis. By the fifth century bce (400s), athens had emerged as both cultural leader and trading giant, with its own outposts in italy, sicily, france, and spain.
