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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 2
10/14/2018

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Horned God ,Prehistoric Painting, Volp river france
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Bull dance
native american ritual
cycle being celebrated
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Stonehenge, England ,2500 BC , Post and Lintel
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The life cycle seasons, deals with story that we see again and again deity who lives goes through cycle to be then reborn
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Newgrange, county meath, ireland 3300 bc, winter solstice
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Pottery Design Mesopotamia 4000 bc, arcetypes of collective unconcious , Carl YOung ,swastika
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Pottery Design North America, oklahoma mound builders 2500 bc, idea of circles and cross,
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Ritual
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Three Basic Concerns
1. Pleasure( food,sex,shelter,children)
2.Power ( conquest,aggrandizement of self or tribe)
3. Duty (to gods,the tribe or the mores and values of society)
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Ritual and Theatre
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1. Masks and costumes represent supernatural power
2. Use of spectacle
3. repetition of familiar pattern
4. Pantomimic dance and rhythmic music
5.Actors-those who enact rites and stories
6. the use of an acting area
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Ikhernofret Stone Abydos Passion Play Egypt 1868 B.C.,first signs of play , first time we see storytelling ,first manuscript
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Osiris god of the underworld,chief character in passion play , set kills him
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Isis wife+ sister of osiris ( puts him back together) mother of horus
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Horus god of the sun heir of osiris and isis,fights set
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timeline
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athenian democracy created 508 bc, addition of satyr plays, each dramatists presented three plays and one satyr play trilogy
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Athenian Democracy created
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508 BC
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Origins of Tragedy
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Translates as Goat Song Aristotle tells us that tragedy emerged from Dithyrambs (Hymns danced in honor of dionysus)
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Dithyrambs transformed into literature by
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Arion 625-585 performers were tragidol tragidol prduced tragikon drama songs
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Thespis
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Poet who stepped away from chorus making final transition to formal tragedy as FIRST ACTOR
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Chorus Leader
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coryphaeus
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answerer
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hypokrities
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seeing place
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theatron
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Dionysus and Satyrs Cart of Thespis
534 BC
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Structure ofTragedy
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Prologue: Background Information
Parados:Entrance of the Chorus
Series of Episodes Followed by
Stasima:Choral
Exodes: Exit of Actors and Chorus
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Dionysus God of Wine,Fertility
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Functions of the chorus
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Character of the Play - Gives advice and asks questions
Establish Framework:- Ethical or social
serve as ideal spectator- set up reaction convention
set the overall mood
add movement and spectacle- song and dance
choral passages provides rhythmic function
creating intervals for audience reflection
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Aeschylus
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introduction of second actor
reduced chorus to twelve members
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sophocles
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introduction of 3rd actor ,set chorus at fifteen members, introductuin if scene painting
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Euripidies
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taboo subject matter, use of deus ex machina
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Aristotle : Elements of Drama
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plot,character,thought,language,music,spectacle
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Key points of tragedy
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Peripeteia- Reversal or perpetual traic irony
action intedted to produce x preiduces reverse
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Anagnorisis
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Recognition or discover of person thing or facts - Tragedy
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hamartia
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tragic flaw , often hubris
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catharsis
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satyr play
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take name from chorus half goat human leader of chorus papa silenus , burlesque treament of mythology ridiculted gods and heroes
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aristophanes
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single extant playwright old midlle comedy
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men in bird costumes, fkute, aristophanes
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knights,men on horseback
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stucture of comedy
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estavlishes mood/happy idea , followed by agon , parabasis, choral ode, divides play into two pars , social or political probelm , loosely connected sceneds lead to adoption of happy idea
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andromeda vase
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Tarentum vase shows the tragic actor \
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hellenistic tragic actor
top to bottom :
onkos
chlamys
himation
chiton
cothornus
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comic actor,slaves from new comedy
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[image] theatre of dionysus early
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[image]theatre of Dionysus middle stage
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[image] theatre of dionysus ground plan
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theatre of dionysus roman period
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dionysus hellenistic period
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theatre at epidaurus classical period
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thyromata
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large openings replacing three doors of skene house
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periaktoi
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three sided scenic units installed in the thyromata
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ekkyklema
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rolling platforms housed in thyromata or paraskenia
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menander with masks new comedy
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menander
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the grouch only surviving entire play
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mask of the golden coutsan comic mask hellenistic period
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phylake play burlesque play of daily life in written form
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rome rebublic created
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509 bc
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phases of rome
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republic and the empire
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Etruscans
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natives of etruria dominant cultural influence on romans
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paratheatrics
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entertainment primarily athletic with origins rooted in etruscan burial rites and other religious ceremonies
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Histrionies
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roman tern for actor
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maccius plautus
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most prolific playwright
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publius terentius (terence)
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most refined african playwright
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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romanizes tragic plays
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points of Senecan tragedy
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Divided play into five epidsodes
Elaborate speeches Resemple forensice addresses
sensational deeds illustrate the evils of unrestrained emotions
Scenes of violenceand horror
preoccupation with magic and dead
central character dominated by single obsessive passion , often revenge
use of soliloquies asides and confidantes
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Attelan Farcw
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afterpieces to drama , rural common characters, common speech, Gluttony, fighting, sexual exploits , links to phylake palys and satyr plays
300-400 lines
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Bucco: Boisterous Braggart
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Pappus:Comic Old Man
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maccus gluttonous fool
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Dossenus
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Hideous,Frightening , hunchback
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venationes
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wild animal fights
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namachiae
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sea battles
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circuses built to accomodate
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chariot racing
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other paratheatrical
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gladiator contests, wrestling , trick riding , men and animals figting
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roman theatre areas
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auleum
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front curtain .loweres into a slot in front of the pulpitum or stage
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siparium
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backround curtain, origianally small curtain used in mime
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siparium
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backround curtain, origianally small curtain used in mime
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vella -canvass awning to protect audience from sun and rain
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periaktoi
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three sided rotating scenic unit
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Flavian Amphitheater- Colosseum
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theatre of pompey expanded on existing structure
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Balbus smallest
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theatre at marcellus most elegant and looks liike half the Colosseum
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Odeon- poets and musiciand
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three conventional scenes
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tragic-columns,pediments,statues
comic- private common dwellings balconies
satyric-pastoral landscape
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roman theatre groundplan
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the pantheon
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theatre at pompeii
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theatre at sabratha
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theatre at orange
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theatre at aspendos
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circus maximus
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roman tragic mask
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scene from roman tragedy
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roman comic actors
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scene from roman mime
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