Roman Vocabulary Flashcards
Vaundeville
a stage play on a trivial theme with interspersed songs.
Naumachiae
An ancient Roman spectacle representing a sea battle.
Reflexivity
When Medea the character told the audience that she is Medea
Elizabethan
English Renaissance drama is sometimes called Elizabethan drama, since its most important developments started when Elizabeth I was queen of England
Renaissance
based on the rediscovery of the literature of Greece and Rome.
Bread & circuses
a diet of entertainment or political policies on which the masses are fed to keep them happy and docile.
Venationes
type of public spectacle that featured animal hunts. Contests between beasts or between men and beasts
Ars poetic
Horace creator (translated as “Art of Poetry”), which was written as kind of a how-to guide to writing poetry.
The poetics
Is written by Aristotle hat talks about his view point of mimesis
Catharsis
the process of releasing emotions such as pity and fear
Commedia del arte
an improvised kind of popular comedy in Italian theaters based on stock characters. Actors adapted their comic dialogue and action according to a few basic plots (commonly love intrigues)
Aristotle
The student of Plato who taught him the characteristic of mimesis but he view it differently than Plato.
Horace
Copy Aristotle book the poetics and change it to how. He was delight and instruct.
Stock character
It was created by Plautus and stock character tend to be easy targets for parody and to be criticized. Ex: bragging wife
Plautus
He created stock characters and wrote comedy plays such as commedia dell arte. (Pantamine tradiction)
