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Odd one out?
Volunteering = great grades!
Some comments now, rest read privately.
Who will type up from the test:– questions about texts 10 Oed and Lear?– comments about characters? :
• Lear 2, 3, 4 / 5+6• Oedipus 4, 5
– theme and imagery stuff 7, 8 (Oed and Lear)?– sim/diffs Oed 9?– Best definitions and info from Oed 3 and 6?
LO: We are learning how to notice and discuss the dramatic structure and purpose of tragedy, in the context of Ancient Greek theatre.
SC: be able to list elements of tragedy and those in Oedipus, give an opinion about the purpose of those elements in affecting the audience in Oedipus.
Tragedy!
• In teams, make a list - what do you need in a drama to call it tragedy?
• What’s it for?
• How does Oedipus fit this?
Concepts change over time – Tragedy?
Ancient GreeceAristotle’s Poetics
Protagonist’s disastrous acts
Bad judgement (hamartia)
Pride v Gods = hubris
Prot recog hub + ham
= anagnorisis
Limited plot, place and time = unities.
Calamitous outcome = catastrophe
+ Audience emotional response = catharsis
Latin Drama
e.g. Seneca
Parades of horror
Classical gods - Roman
Focus on duty
Political
Rhetorical style
Middle Ages
Simplified + Christianity
Noble man falling from high glory
God punishes wicked and rewards good
Wheel of fortune
Princes trusting earthly power = punished by G
Romantic
Germans e.g. Goethe – world of imagination frees us from binds of society + hierarchies of religion and power.
Prot = sensitive individ striving for self-expres
World does not recog validity of personal feeling and vision
Sensibility not royal blood makes you a tragic prot
Romantic re-interps of ShakesFaust/Hedda Gabler etc
Rennaissancechange + contradictions
Not just royal prot = political
Sub-genre revenge
Display and horror from Latin drama
Christian morals – Protestant – indiv relat. with God
But often set in pagan times
Wheel of fortune
But man is individual - own power and responsibility
Nowglobal/nihilism/conflict
Early 20th C “tragic flaw” – character criticism and start of psychology (A.C. Bradley)
Later 20th/21st C “tragedy of the common man”.
Life is pointless (nihilism) – godless (secular)?
Capitalism, social class, global politics
Man destroying the world.
Tragedy of failing to act.
Global politics.
Public figures making private mistakes?
Tragedy Homework
Everyone find one example of a tragic story/hero from a different author (not s or WS) for each period and bullet point tragic elements that fit the concept of tragedy in that period.
1. Ancient Greek drama (e.g. Euripides)2. Rennaisance drama (e.g. Marlow)3. Modern drama (e.g. Samuel Beckett)4. Real life – Tiger Woods? Wayne Rooney?
Extensions: Can have extra from same playwright (Sophocles or Shakespeare) but
…the birthplace of democracy and cheap holidays…
And theatre as we know it…
Someone famous was about to put their foot in it…
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&gbv=2&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=TRAGIC+MASKS&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
Let’s Perform
So, to perform our tragic drama, we need:• An audience• A round stage with platform at the front• Professional main character actors• Large masks so we can tell which one they are• A chorus of amateurs• Chorus masks, so they don’t just look like mates• Costumes for everyone• Tissues, wine, comedy to pick us up afterwards..
Dramatic Structure – function of sections?
Prologos (sets out problem) Priest + O, +C.Parados Chorus enter + STAY ON STAGEEpisode 1 (Act) scenes 1 O+CH, 2 O+T [+ CH]Stasimon 1 (Choric Ode) hunted +hidden?Episode 2 sc 1 C+CH, 2 O+C, 3 J+O. [+ CH]Stasimon 2 CH to Z law, pride, godly help?Episode 3 sc 1 J + Gs, 2 MC + C, 3 O+J [+ CH]Stasimon 3 CH Short - Yay, find out tom! Ta!Episode 4 one scene only - SH+M+O [+ CH]Stasimon 4 CH lament – happiness to misery.Episode 5 sc 1 MR, 2 O-Is!, C+O, C+O+kids [+ CH]Exodos – final CH speech (lessons) and exit.
LO: We are learning how to notice and discuss the dramatic structure and purpose of tragedy, in the context of Ancient Greek theatre.
SC: be able to list elements of tragedy and those in Oedipus, give an opinion about the purpose of those elements in affecting the audience in Oedipus.
