antigone pre-reading notes test date: _____________________ mrs. davidson english 5
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Antigone Pre-reading Notes
Test Date: _____________________
Mrs. DavidsonEnglish 5
Apollo, The Sphinx, and Dionysus
• Apollo:
• The Sphinx:
• Dionysus:
Oracles, Curses, and Fate
• Oracles: Jocasta and Laius:
• Greek concept of a curse:
• Greek concept of Fate:Jocasta and Laius:
The Origin of Tragedy
• Religion
• Plays
• Chorus
• Audience
Greek Playwrights
• Thespis (6th Century B.C.)
• Aeschylus (525-426 B.C.)
• Sophocles (496 – 406 B.C.)
• Euripedes (486 – 406 B.C.)
Typical Greek Theater Plan
A Theatron D SkeneB Orchestra E ProskenionC Thymele
F Parados
Structure of Greek Theater
• Theatron – the “seeing place”• Orchestra – circular dancing place for
performance• Thymele – altar• Skene – building used as dressing room• Proskenion – façade used as backdrop• Parodos – entrance used by chorus
Actors and Acting• Hypocrites (hypocrite)– Actors– Musical Accompaniment– Dance
• Chorus• Mood
– Costumes and Masks• Robes• Boots• Masks
– Three characters• Protagonist• Deuteragonist• Tritagonist
Aristotle and Theatric Conventions
• “Poetics” (circa 350 B.C.)
• Catharsis – the function of tragedy
• Tragic Hero – a flawed character
• Other Conventions – – Messenger– Chorus– Intermission– Curtains– Lighting effects
The “Three Unities”• Unity of Action
• Unity of Time
• Unity of Place
The Structure of Plays
• Dialogue– Episodes– Strophes– Antistrophe
• Order– Prologue– Parados– Alternating
• Kommos• Exodus (Epilogue)
Episodic Structure of a Greek Tragedy
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