THEA 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Choregos, Fourth Wall, Euripides
21 Dec 2016
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Lecture 3: a trip to the underworld: aristophanes" the frogs. Aristotle: his writings on good tragedy, pity and fear, and katharsis, tragic hero, Mechane and deus ex machina - god in the machine (god sorting everything out, resolution coming from outside) therefore aristotle didn"t like it. Introduction theatre"s socio-political role: going to the theatre. Theatre played a very important role in athens. Spring dianisos festival growing empire time when many came. Time to preform itself to the people: the archon and choregos. He was a judge and execute the ideas he had. Appointed different choregos to higher chorus and ensure that they are well trained to preform. Chorus members= young men just completed military training. Did not higher actors they were appointed by the state (and paid by) 449 bce prize for acting introduce into city dionysian so playwrights wanted good actors. Drawn by lots (out of a pot)
