Playwrights BrainBowl Flashcards
3 Great Tradgens
Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
Every Man
example of medeval morality play
Aeschylus
The Persians (only existing play based on historical events), Oresteia trilogy: Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers and The Furies (only existing trilogy)[one of 3 tragedian] 525-456 BC
Sophocles
Antigone and Oedipus Rex (fought at marathon)[one of 3 tragedian] 496-406 BC
Euripides
Bacchae [one of 3 tragedians] 480-406 BC
Aristophanes
Old Comedian Lysistrata 448-388 BC
Menander
Founder of New Comedy 342-292 BC
Plautus
Roman Comic, dramatist 251-184 BC
Terence
Roman Comic, dramatist 185-159 BC
Chistopher Marlowe
The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus (Could have written Shakespeare) 1564-930 AD
William Shakespear
1564-1616 AD
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
Le Tartuffe (father of modern Comedy) 1622-73
John Dryden
English poet, dramatist 1631-1700
Johann con Goethe
Faust 1749-1832
Aleksandr Pushkin
Boris Godunov 1799-1837