Theatre scholarship Flashcards

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Carey - festivals

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drama festivals were an exercise in propaganda

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Higgins - attending theatre

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to attend the theatre was a religious duty and responsibility of all pious citizens

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Dover - frogs unique

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Frogs is unique among extant plays in providing us with the spectacle of a moving vehicle, Charons boat, which arrives to take Dionysus

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Steiner - tragedy

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there is no place for tragedy in the modern world, governed by belief in rationality/mankind’s power to drive progress

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Higgins - tragedy (comfort)

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maybe we want tragedy because it’s actually comforting to be told individual human actions have a meaning and grandeur

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Higgins - tragedy (gods)

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greek tragedy is deeply interested in playing with the limits of human agency against a backdrop in which the gods are all powerful

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Taplin - tragedy

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There is nothing intrinsically Dionysiac about Greek tragedy

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Seaford - tragedy

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tragedy is a fairly good indication of what meant something to the Athenian audience

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Godhill - tragedy

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tragedy is a very sobering and frightening story

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Henn - tragedy

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tragedy offers not just redemption, but the assertion that man is splendid in his ashes

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Garland - euripides

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it is possible Euripides was an atheist since he consistently presents hods in an extremely negative light and seems to call into question their entitlement to worship

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Taplin - masks

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it looks as though the ‘neutrality’ of the mask was ready to take its expression from the tragedy rather than imposing a certain tone on it

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swift - hero

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the hero’s character traits are not inherently bad but become problematic when pushed to an extreme

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14
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swift - Achilles

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Achilles is in many ways the prototype for the tragic hero

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15
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Knox - hero

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we find heros attractive

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Knox - hero decisions

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the tragic hero makes a decision rooted in his personal nature and maintains it to the point of self destruction

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Cartledge - Aristophanes

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the contribution of Aristophanes to comedy was overwhelming and unique.

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Seaford - Aristophanes

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fairly idealogical

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Dover - humour

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all humour of excretion belongs to all cultures

20
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Barette - frogs parabasis

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the frogs highly political parabasis is what won its awards and repeated performances, not its satirical comedy

21
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Defraud - contest

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the musical contest between Dionysus and the Frogs is a musical parody of the new Dithyrambs and therefore Euripides too

22
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Dodds - oedipus

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a tragedy of destiny

23
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Garvie - Oedipus

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His crimes were foretold before his birth

24
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Aristotle - man

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a man is a political animal

25
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Seaford - tragic heroism

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reversal and recognition are right at the centre of the Oedipus Tyranus

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Winnington-ingrom - Bacchae

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Bacchae is the motif of justice

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Dover - Aeschylus and Euripides

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Aristophanes is able to make the contrast between Aeschylus and Euripides to the familiar contrast between the valour, virtue and the security of the past.

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Bakola - A&E

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Aeschylus and Euripides are presented as caricatures of what their art represented in the minds of the audience

29
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Barette - A&E

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though Euripides and Aeschylus debate we see the difference between wisdom and cleverness, wisdom includes morality (Aeschylus died at war).

30
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Kovakes - A&E

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the traits given to A&E are amusing and the contrast between them makes comic sense, but they are without value as an index of how either Aristophanes or his contemporaries really regarded them

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Griffiths - godsfrogs

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Dionysus is seriously deficient as a hero/god and is cowardly and ineffective

32
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Griffiths - Dionysus frogs

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he acts like a regular Athenian man

33
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Campbell - gods frogs

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it is Dionysus who lowers the tone

34
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Wyles - gods frogs

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Dionysus should be knowledgeable about the plays and yet his response is shown as unintelligent and unsophisticated.

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Dover - Dionysus frogs

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we laugh more at him than with him

36
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MacDowell - Dionysus frogs

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an effeminate character pretending to be manly

37
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Barette - initiates

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some gods are able to be mocked without fear of retribution, such as Dionysus. Aristophanes is careful not to mock the chorus of initiates.

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Kovacs - Euripides

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a wayward modernist bent on lowering the tone of tragedy by taking the heroic figures of myth down to the level of ordinary mortals

39
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Jones - comedy

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comedy is not an effective medium for political intervention

40
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Bettendorf - function of frogs

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the primary function of the play is not literary criticism but political action

41
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Sommerstein - frogs

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it is impossible to understand frogs without appreciating that this was the shadow that hung over spectators, performers and authors.

42
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Redfield

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the conflict between A&E is a poetic expression of the conflict between old and new politics and the victory of Aeschylus is a rejection of the new life-style, a return to the old moral code.

43
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Harrison and Affleck

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The political question that emerges most insistently is who to trust

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45
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Compton

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Political satire is the hallmark of old comedy

46
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Affleck - Uncertainty

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the play was written at a time of great uncertainty

47
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Affleck - Aristophanes

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Aristophanes considered the situation on the tragic stage to be comparable to the military situation.