Theatre 1 : Unit 1

Dithyram

Choir song that tells a story

Choregus

Funded and organized shows

Skene

Dressing room

Thymele

Center of Orchestra

Theatron

Seats

Paradoi

Exits/entrances to stage

Orchestra

Performing space

Deus ex Machina

Godly illusion crane

Catharsis

Purging of emotions through art

“Action, not narrative”

Show, not tell

“Purgation”

Catharsis, presents negative emotions in order to rid of them

“Serious”

Not comedy or satyr

“Complete”

Stands alone

“Certain magnitude”

Powerful characters and story

“Language embellished”

Poetry and song

Tragedy is made of 6 parts :

Diction, song, plot, character, spectacle, thought

Three essential elements of tragedy

Reversal, recognition, scene of suffering

The Poetics are said to be the theater

Handbook

Hamartia

Suffering

Aristoles Literary Critisisms

The Poetics

Pisistratus

Festivals in praise of Dionysus