-first prize-winner for writing tragedies-- Thespus (he also introduced first solo-speaking actor instead of chorus)
- used masks
-Euripides & Aeschylus (Father of Tragedy) aslo famous playwright
-Aristophenes (writer of The Frogs, The Birds, The Insects, The Clouds)
-going to theatre wrapped everything all in one- football game, rock concerts, play- all combined into one social event
- sometimes even a church service in there
- skipped work for a week
- like community theatre
-chorus: provides commentary on/accompaniment to the action of the play
-playwrights wrote about both pleasurable experiences of life and the unalterable causes that lead to death
- causes conflict in plays
-hubris: protagonist with ego taht leads to downfall
-text:
- prologue-- introduction
- parados-- entrance to the chorus
- episode-- action of the play
- stasismon-- general comment/reflection on play, usually from chorus-- strophe and antistrophe
- exodus-- summarizes the moral, chorus leaves
-parabasis: the spot in the play where the playwright blatantly tells his audience his opinion/purpose for the play
-deus ex machina: when the Gods save the day; everything works out
-orchestra: center of stage
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