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author with the invention of dialogue
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author of agamemnon, father of tragedy, ancient greek tradition. introduced the second actor!
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author who introduced third actor! reduced chorus.
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author which included a more realistic characterization. wrote medea and the trojan women.
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performed at the annual dionysus festival in 458 BC and won first prize.
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an enchantress who helped to obtain the Golden Fleece from her father. cheated on by her husband, goes crazy, and murders her ex's new wife and her sons... then flies away on a chariot of fire in the sky.
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Lysistrata convinces the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands as a means of forcing the men to negotiate a peace.
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the play is about AGAPE, CHIONIA, IRENA who were martyrdoms of the holy virgins.
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He defines poetry as a 'medium of imitation' that seeks to represent or duplicate life through character, emotion, or action.
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He succeeded in forging the largest Western empire of the ancient world. HELLENISTIC ERA.
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A young man from Athens relies on his clever slave to steal back the girlfriend who was kidnapped from him by an outrageously conceited soldier-for-hire.
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rise of christianity/christian church.
excommunication for Christians who attend theatre on holy days and actors forbidden sacraments until changing profession -
( liturgical drama ; biblical plays ; tropes )
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first woman writer of plays.
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( transition out of churches ; mystery cycle plays ; saint/morality plays )
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( everything is going to ruins.. things falling apart )
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Queen Elizabeth I joined the chat and banned religious theatre.
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an improvised kind of popular comedy in Italian theaters in the 16th–18th centuries, based on stock characters
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mystery play about.. two people faking this sheep as a baby to trick the others because they're hungry. comedy.
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the legend himself joined the chat. too bad he wasn't famous until after he was dead.
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guy sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge... didn't work out too hot for him in the end.
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development of autos sacramentales and comedias. ALSO Spanish forces colonize the Americas, uses Spanish theatre forms blended with native forms to entertain.
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in an attempt to avoid future strife, divides his kingdom between his three daughters.. and things just get messy from there.
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theatre boomed in the 1700s.
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it tells the story of a young widow who marries against the wishes of her powerful brothers, setting off a storm of revenge.
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Fuenteovejuna is a historical play, based on an uprising in the village of Fuenteovejuna in 1476.
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a Spanish playwright and poet of the Golden Age in the late 16th century to 17th century. (he wrote Fuenteovejuna and from 800-1800 comedias)
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focused on comedy/domestic, tragedy/noble, focus on realism and probability, violence happened off stage, use of three unities, and it was perfected in france.
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tells the story of King Basilio, who imprisons his son, Segismundo, at birth, because his astrological studies have given him reason to fear that the boy will grow up to be a tyrant and a rebel against his authority.
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he reopens theatres and established theatre companies
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one of the most famous theatrical comedies by Molière. it's about a religious hypocrite and con-man who creeps his way into Orgon's household and almost walks away with the house.
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a famous woman in the world of theatre who played "breech roles"
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Diary with his reactions to plays and filled with staging practice
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a Restoration comedy written in 1675 by William Wycherley. Popular for its lively characters and its double entendres, the bawdy comedy was occasionally vilified for immorality.
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Phaedra confesses to her nurse that she is in love with her stepson, Hippolytus. Phaedra reveals her love to Hippolytus when she finds our her husband is dead. But she ends up dying in the end.
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The Rover follows the band of banished English cavaliers as they enjoy themselves at a carnival in Naples. The story has multiple plotlines that surround the Englishmen.
