TA 147 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Peripeteia, Hamartia

• School: Oregon State University
• Department: Theatre Arts
• Course: TA 147
• Professor: Elizabeth Helman

Document Summary

Lampooned everything from war to gender to politics. Tragedy is an imitation of a certain magnitude In the form of action, not of narrative; through pity and fear affecting the proper purgation of these emotions. ( poetics ) Late point of attack - we start the play later into the story where the action is about to. Exposition - giving the audience the necessary information on where we are at and what start they need to know. Anagnorismos: the recognition of the error and the subsequent self knowledge. Metabasis: the reversal of fortune leading to the recognition. Peripeteia - the reversal or chain of events that produce the opposite of the intended effect. Climax - the moment of the highest point of physical/emotional action. Protagonist - the plays central character - usually the character that grows or changes the most. Antagonist - person who gets in the way of the protagonist. Paradoi (openings on either side of the skene)