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HOMER The Illiad
and The Odyssey 7th century
B.C.
What was needed to create theater in Greece:
A middle class to create/attend the plays. A sense of partiotism. Spare time. Relative peace and relative prosperity. A stable economy. A public sponsor and public encouragement. Appreciation for learning.
PISISTRATUS – 560 BCE to 510 BCE
PERSIAN EMPIRE IN 5TH CENTURY B.C.E.
Greece,
Circa 500 B.C.E.
PERICLES 495 B.C.E. to 429 B.C.E. Ruled from 460 B.C.E. to 429 B.C.E.
'All kinds of enterprises should be created which will provide an inspiration for every art, find employment for every hand... we must devote ourselves to acquiring things that will be the source of everlasting fame.'
Parthenon at the Acropolis paid for, in part, by the Delian League
ATHENA AND NIKE
Nashville, Tennessee
NASHVILLE RECREATION
ARCHAIC 6th Century BC
SEVERE Early 5th Century BC
CLASSICAL Mid 5th Century BC
HELLENISTIC 4th Century BC
CONJECTURAL MASK OF DIONYSUS
DIONYSUS
DIONYSUS Statue made 4th
Century B.C.E.— Roman copy of Greek original.
Modern Production at Epidaurus
MASKS OF TRAGEDY POSSIBLY CAST FROM MASKS WORN BY GREEK ACTORS.
STRUCTURAL CONCEITS OF GREEK TRAGEDY
•! Prologue (exposition) •! Parados (entrance of the chorus) •! Episode (two person scene) •! Staisma (comment on the episode)
–!Episode and Staisma continue. •! Exodos (resolution and exit)
Inciting Incident
Point of Attack
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
GENRES INVENTED BY THE GREEKS
•! TRAGEDY –! Character based, ends with the death or destruction
of a single main character. Based on mythology. •! SATYR
–! Plot based, bawdy parody of serious stories from mythology.
•! OLD COMEDY –! Character based critiques of the social norms. New
story ideas. •! NEW COMEDY
–! Plot based, formulaic plays about young lovers being kept apart by their parents – aka domestic comedies.
THE POETICS BY ARISTOTLE
•! Written after the fact (circa 330 B.C.E.) •! Praises Sophocles over Euripides •! Three Unities
–!Space –!Time –!Action
•! One character – single action •! No subplots
Satyr – modern depiction
SATYR MASK
Vase Painting of A Satyr Play.
THE GREAT GREEK PLAYWRIGHTS
•! Aescylus (523 to 456 BC) Tragedy and Satyr •! Sophocles (490 – 406 BC) Tragedy and Satyr •! Euripides (480 – 406 BC) Tradedy and Satyr •! Aristophanes (445 to 385 BC) Old Comedy •! Menander (342 – 292 BC) New Comedy
AESCHYLUS 523 B.C.E. to
456 B.C.E.
Orestes kills Aegisthus, Clytemnestra flees
Apollo cleanses Orestes with pig’s blood.
Clytemnestra tries to awaken furies.
Modern production of The Oresteia
Oresteia at Thick Description, San Jose
SOPHOCLES 496 B.C.E to 406 B.C.E.
Oedipus Rex
Contemporary production of Oedipus Rex
TYRONE GUTHRIE OEDIPUS REX
Jocasta
Expressionistic production of Oedipus Rex
Euripides 480 BC to 406 BC
Medea with two doomed children. Roman copy, 2nd
Century C.E.
Media’s chariot
Jason and Medea
JASON AND MEDEA AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTION
MEDEA AT ANTIOCH
ARISTOPHANES 445 B.C.E. – 385 B.C.E.
Vase Painting, possibly of THE BIRDS
Possible depiction of THE BIRDS
Comedy Mask of Old Man
MASKS OF COMEDY
Modern set design for The Birds
Modern mask and costume for The Birds
LYSISTRATA at Mt. SAC
MENANDER 342 B.C.E to 292 B.C.E.
Menander and masks
Menander with masks
Differences between Old and New Comedy
•! OLD COMEDY –! New stories based on
pursuit of a “Happy Idea”
–! Political in nature –! Episodic –! Chorus is integral –! Mystical and varied
settings (likely on the orchestra)
–! Crass and sexual –! High verse
•! NEW COMEDY –! Formulaic stories based on
love interest and flawed character
–! Domestic in nature –! Five acts –! Chorus is incidental –! Street setting, likely on the
skena, with three doorways.
–! Polite –! Pedestrian dialogue
Greek Architecture and Stagecraft
Greek Theater, plan view
Deus ex Machina or Mechane:
conjectural drawing
Deus ex Machina Conjectural drawing
Ekkeklema
TWO MODERN CONJECTURES FOR THE EKKYKLEMA
PINAKES
Periaktoi
This Roman statue may depict a Greek tragic actor. There is scant evidence that Kothurnae were worn in 5th Century B.C.E., but possibly they were used in 4th Century B.C.E.
Modern Depictions of Cothurnae
Oedipus Rex
Contemporary production of Oedipus Rex
TYRONE GUTHRIE OEDIPUS REX