ENGL 2029 Chapter : Greek Theater1
Document Summary
Ii: god of wine fertility and revelry, pantheistic religion, zeus and hera, annual festivals. Held in the beginning of the winter and ended with the wine tastings. Associated with comedy. near athens is re-opened, people goods flow into city. Lenaia held in january and was primarily local. City dionysia held during march, spring time. The port: fertility ritual, archon, choragus, awards and punishments, city state involvement, provided theatre awards to be given to the winners. Orchestra: thymele, skene means scene house, proskenion, deus ex machine god from a machine, theatron the viewing place, where the audience sits. Chorus: as many as 50 people, usually wealthy, local people. Thespis was the first actor to be recognized. Perception perception (dreaded fate and: anagnorisis (the moment of perception, peripeteia (the moment that the fortunes turn for the noble character) Satyr plays: witty, brief, entertaining plays, slapstick. Old comedy: aristophanes, modern analogy: marx brothers.
