• Ritual and religious beliefs
• same with korean theatre
• Myths made through unexplainable theories
• Odyssey
• Epic theatre
• Origin of theatre was made through aristotle
• greek philosophy
• human beings are instinctively imitative
• people are born to imitate
• Enjoy seeing/imitating others
• humans want to know why we act as we do
• Children imitate adults through instinct
• Drama appeared 3000 bc in Egypt (speculation)
• Party God
• Myths about Dionysus
• Harmony with forces made through theatre
• 14th century bc was when they had these festivals
• dances - 'Dithyrambs'
• 534 BC
• contest of theatre
• started with tragedy, then went to comedy
• Only recorded actor was thespus
• Won the first contest at the festival
• thespians - actors
• Chorus is the unifying force of the act
• 5 writers that were the key playwrites
• aristopheles
• mynander
• sopholes
• euripides
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• Esculus - earliest dramatist whos play survived
• 79 plays made yet only 7 remain
• 'Persians' - play
• most of these plays were made upon Gods
• mythology
• mythological stories of the Gods
• Introduced the second actor
• face-to-face conflict
• Oresteiai
• one of the great examples of dramatic literature
• dealt with Justice
• Sophecles
• 496-406 bc
• one of the greatest of the greek dramatists
• 100 plays made but only 7 exist
• Antigony
• concerned with human relationships
• Breeks believed that spirites would never cross the boundary to rest if they weren't buried properly
• Chorus with one person
• chorus like a narrator
• based on a greek chorus
• Euripides
• Meidas - play
• was a skeptic about Gods and stories
• examined his characters
• Trojan women - killed children
• The Trojan Women - play
• Coregoy
• wealthy citizens that payed for the chorus
• sponsors
• Coregus
• appointed to each dramatist
• individual who worked with everybody 
• responsible for everything
• except for the speaking itself and the actor
• The medieval theatre was sponsored by the craft guilds
• iron workers (like donating wagons)
• Choregus had to make sure that the playwrite had 3 tragedies and a comedy
• The dancing place (performance area)
• Skene
• where actors would prepare (like a backstage)
• side buildings (paraskenia)
• Paradoi - where the chorus comes in between the stage and the audience
• Duasseks Machinne
• crane-like device
• lower and lift the gods
• Characteristics of a greek actor
• loud voice
• versitile
• different masks
• how to use a mask
• dance
• singing
• they wore huge heels and tunics
• abstract motions
• no small gestures
• big motions
• Characteristics of a Greek Chorus
• unifying force
• Commentary of action on a play
• engage in dialogue
• express opinions
• give advice
• established an ethical framework in a play
• set up a standard
• react to situations
• adding dramaticness
• add colour
• rhythmical functions
• rhythm to the play
• Elements of Tragedy
• fate trumps anything
• kills his own father and has children with his mother
• fate told him to do so
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