History of Greek Theatre - Jason Stout

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  1. 4. a monster sent by the goddess Hera to protect the city of Thebes
  2. 6. song sung by chorus should be part of the plot
  3. 7. The first winner of the best tragedy contest
  4. 14. support the plot and their motivation drives the play
  5. 16. plot, characters, thought, diction, melody, and spectacle
  6. 18. how speech reveals character
  7. 19. facilitated rapid change of roles, made it easier for male actors to play female characters, and helped the actor in assuming roles of different types
  8. 22. something to shock the audience
  9. 23. the latin title for the play oedipus tyrannus in greek
  10. 25. the origin of our word scene and provided a space for actors to relax or change costumes
  11. 26. could play several roles and after 400 B.C. the amount of these permitted were limited to 3 per playwright
  12. 28. the first great theorist of dramatic art and defined the word tragedy
  13. 30. one of the two major influences on greek drama
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  1. 1. usage of words to express thought
  2. 2. the arrangements of the events of the play
  3. 3. Another one of the two major influences on greek drama
  4. 4. was born in 496 B.C and wrote around 123 plays and won the best playwright contest at the festival fore 24 times
  5. 5. the theater is on the slope of the hill below the Acropolis in Athens and has a theatron, orchestron, and a thymele
  6. 8. increased the number of actors in plays to three and set the number of people in the chorus to 15
  7. 9. a fault of character such as pride or jealousy
  8. 10. an ancient greek word for a king who did not inherit their throne but had taken it
  9. 11. A creature in classical mythology that was part man and part goat and was famous for being drunk and sexual
  10. 12. a man of noble stature who has a greatness about him
  11. 13. Was the major festival and was a religious and civic celebration
  12. 15. God of wine and fertility and was honored at each of the festivals
  13. 17. comes from the greek word theatron which means place of seeing
  14. 20. Can be traced back to Ancient Greece
  15. 21. divided into four categories of actors, musicians, supernumeraries, and chorus
  16. 24. Comes from the greek verb meaning "to do" or "to act"
  17. 27. in greek means dance and its main role was to sing and dance
  18. 29. Lived during 5th century Athens and is considered to be the father of Western philosophy