FESTIVAL ORDER OF THE GREAT DIONYSIA
AUDIENCE
THEATRE
READINGS:
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Greek Drama Chapter 2 & 3
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Greek Drama and Staging a Play
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Greek Masks
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Use of Masks
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A Greek Theatre
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Greek Stage Machinery
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Acting and the Stage
THE GREEK THEATRE
Greek Theatre
1. Drama developed from the worship of _____________, god of _______________ who is often shown wearing a ___________ skin, surrounded by revellers, creatures of the woodland ______________, depicted with snub noses, hairy bodies and horsey ________________.
2. The first actor to speak apart from the chorus was ______________ in 534 B.C.
3. Drama reached its highest point in the _______ century B.C. in the city of ________________.
4. Three main tragic dramatists were in order of birth ____________________, ________________, ________________.
5. Name two drama festivals were comedy could be seen ____________________, ____________________.
6. By the time of Aristophanes there were ______ main actors available for a playwright and a chorus of (number) ______.
7. Greek theatres were ______________ in shape, could seat __________ people, had _________________ acoustics. Theatron, the seeing place, refers to the ________________ the parodos/parodoi were _________________.In the text the parodos refers to _______________________.
8. The chorus area was called the __________________. It had in its midst an altar to, _________________ and his statue was present at the festival.
9. Where did the priest sit? ______________________________
10. Name the stage building, (____________________) the machine for hoisting characters or objects onto the stage, (___________________) the trolley for bringing out "dead" bodies etc. (______________________).
11. What indicated that a play took place at night? ________________________________
12. Why was there a stage house? A) _____________________________, B)_____________________________ , C)_________________________
13. Give three facts about tragic costume:
14. Give three facts about comic costume:
15. Who wrote satyr plays? ___________________________________________________
16. How many plays did authors offering tragedy present? ____________________
17. Who, traditionally, added an extra actor? _____________________________
18. Were any performers female? _________
19. What music would you hear? (2) ____________________________, ___________________________________.
20. Give two examples of animal choruses in Aristophanes's plays? ____________________, ______________________. Who paid for these costumes? __________________________________.
FROGS & WASPS
READINGS:
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Aristophanic Comedy (structure)
WASPS and FROGS: The Serious Messages
WASPS
FROGS
PONERIA
WASPS
READINGS:
WASPS - SYNOPSIS
Arrange the statements in the correct order to form a synopsis of the plot of Wasps.
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