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Choragos

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Led the chorus

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Chorus

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A group of men

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Drama

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Play is written meant to be performed infront of an audience

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Closet drama

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Meant to be read not performed

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Alene

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Building served as dressing or resting place

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Colonnade

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Line of pillars

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Persona

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Stylized mask

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Protagonist

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Central role and have the largest part

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Prologos

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First part of tragic play “prologue” actor gives information needed to follow play.

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Parados

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Second part, chorus enters and comments on the events presented in prologue

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episodia

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Characters speak to one another on the stage to develop central conflict

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Stasimon

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In which chorus comments on episodias that have previously occurred

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Exodos

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Last scene of play in which play conflict is resolved.

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Town guilds

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Organization of craftsmen who worked in the same profession reacted old and New Testament stories.

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Mystery plays

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Presented on movable stages or on pageants

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Pageants

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Term for wagons

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Morality plays

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Characters represent virtues or vices struggle or debate over the soul of a man.

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Master of revels

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Official who had the power to censor plays and grant licenses for performances

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Groundlings

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Common people

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Hell

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Reached by removing floorboards from stage

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Heavens

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Protected actors from the weather and contained ropes and pulleys used lower props.

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Alcove

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Covered by a curtain allowed actors to appear and disappear when needed

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Rear stage

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Some theaters had these in place of alcove

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Chamber

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Which functioned as a balcony or as any other setting located above the action taking place on the stage below

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Huts
Windows located above the music gallery, could be used by characters playing lookouts or sentries
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Picture-frame stage
Resembles stages in which plays are performed today
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Proscenium arch
Surrounded the opening through which the audience viewed the performance
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Realism
Improved lighting which revealed inadequacies of painted backdrops
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Surrealistic
Color and celery mirrored the uncontrolled images of dreams
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Expressionistic stage
Costumes and scenery where exaggerated and distorted to reflect the workings of a troubled, even unbalanced mind
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Thrust stage
Area which projects out into the audience
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Arena stage
Audience surrounding the actors
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Environmental staging
Stage surrounds audience or several stages are situated at various locations throughout the audience
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Participatory drama
Takes place I church where a wedding is performed and then a catering hall where the wedding reception is held.
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Tragedy
Drama treating a serious subject involving persons of significance
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Catharsis
The way dramatic events unfold
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Hamartia
Weakeness or a flaw in protagonist
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Hubris
Narrowness of vision of overwhelming pride
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Irony
What characters say and what the audience believes
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Dramatic/tragic irony
Audience knows more about the dramatic situation than the character does
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Cosmic irony
Also known as iron of fate, occurs when God, fate, or something larger uncontrollable allows characters that they can change their fate
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Catastrophe
When protagonist acknowledges his downfall
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Pathos
Exists simple to satisfy the sentimental or morbid sensibilities of the audience
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Unity of action
When play contains events that lead to tragic outcome
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Unity of place
Play have a single setting
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Unity of time
Require play take no longer than actual duration of play, usually a day.
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Tragicomedies
Serious appropriate for tragedy but end happily, usually sudden turn of events
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Melodrama
Appeals mainly to emotions
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Realism
Arose in late 1900th century in response to artificialitites of melodramas
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Naturalism
Developed along side realism, rejected unrealistic plots
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Comedy
Treats themes and characters with humor typically a happy ending
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Satire
Biting humor that diminishes a person, idea, or institution by ridiculing it or holding it up to scorn
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Farce
Stereotypical character engages in horseplay and slapstick humor
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Romantic comedy
Love is main subject and idealized heroines and lovers endure great difficulties until the inevitable happy ending is reached
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Comedy of humors
Focus on characters whose behavior is controlled by a characteristic trait or humour
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Comedy of manners
Directed satire against characters who violated social conventions and rules of behavior
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Sentimental comedy
Relies on sentimental emotion rather than on wit or humor to move an audience
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High comedy
Comedy that appeals to intellect
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Low comedy
Opposite if high play
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Antihero
Character that manifests petty or are ineffectual
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Black/dark comedies
Rely on morbid and the absurd
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Theater of the absurd
Human condition is irrational
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acts
What play is devised in
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Stage direction
Specify characters' entrance and exits and describe what settings look like and how characters look and act
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Dialogue
Lines spoken by character
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Monologues
Extended speeches by one character
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Soliloquies
Monologue in which a character express private thoughts while alone on stage
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Aside
Brief comments by a character who reveals thoughts by speaking directly to the audience without being heard by other characters
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Intermission
A pause in action that can be used to heighten dramatic tension
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One-act play
Shorter played

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