Quiz 1 Theatre History Flashcards
Skene
Stone building used as a dressing room and as a backdrop for action.
Orchestra
“Dancing place where the chorus sang and danced.
Parados
Aisles where the chorus enter and exit.
Theatron
Seeing place where the audience sits.
Protagonist
1st actor in a play; only plays one role, usually the hero.
Deuteragonist
2nd actor in a play; plays two roles.
Tritagonist
3rd actor in a play; plays all additional roles (2 or more).
Hypokrites
Actors
Thespis
First western actor.
Tragedy
“Goat song”
Tragedy (definition)
A play in which the action ends badly catastrophically for the protagonist.
Comedy (translation)
“Revelry song”
Comedy (definition)
A play in which the dramatic action resolves well for the protagonist.
Dionysus
Greek god of wine, revelry, Dolphins, fertility, and theatre.
City Dionysia
Major Athenian theatre festival honoring Dionysus.
Orestia
Aeschylus’s work the _____ is the only surviving Greek trilogy.
Aeschylus
Tragic playwright who instituted the second actor; famous for Agamemnon.
Sophocles
Tragic playwright who instituted the third actor; famous for Oedipus Rex and Antigone.
Euripedes
Tragic playwright who used strong female characters, did not win as many festivals as the other tragedians we studied, but has the most commonly produced Greek play today: Medea.
Dithyramb
In Ancient Greece a choral song describing the adventures of a god or heroic figure.
Chorus
A group of Greek men who sang and danced the stories of gods and heroes .
Aristophanes
Famous Greek comedian who wrote The Birds and The Frogs.
Satyr Play
Ancient Greek form of tragiccomedy, they always featured a chorus of goat men, were based in Greek mythology and contained themes of, among other things, drinking, overt sexuality, pranks and general merriment.
True or False: All Greek performers wore masks.
True
