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	Greek Theatre Index
		The Chorus - An essay on the role of the Chorus in Greek drama.
		Origin of Comedy - An examination of the origin of Greek comic drama.
		Phrynicus - A brief biography of the Greek dramatist.
	www.theatrehistory.com /ancient/greek.html (528 words)

	Greek Theater - Crystalinks
		Greek theater or Greek Drama is a theatrical tradition that flourished in ancient Greece between c.
		Thespis is therefore considered the first Greek "actor," and his style of drama became known as tragedy (which means 'goat song', perhaps referring to goats sacrificed to Dionysus before performances, or to goat-skins worn by the performers.
		Greek theatres were not enclosed; the audience could see each other and the surrounding countryside as well as the actors and chorus.
	www.crystalinks.com /greektheater.html (1538 words)

	Greek and Roman Comedy
		Comedy seems to have sprung into being at the vintage-festival of the Greek villagers, when all was jovial gaiety and jesting license in honor of Dionysus.
		THE comedy of Aristophanes was a medley of boisterous comic-opera and of lofty lyric poetry, of vulgar ballet and of patriotic oratory, of indecent farce and of pungent political satire, of acrobatic pantomime and of brilliant literary criticism, of cheap burlesque and of daringly imaginative fantasy.
		Greek tragedy had been lyric in its origin, and was perforce poetic; whereas Greek comedy, after Aristophanes, was free to be prosaic, as was needful in dealing more directly with the facts of every-day existence.
	www.theatrehistory.com /ancient/comedy001.html (6236 words)

	Ancient Greek comedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Comedy is defined by Plato as the generic name for all exhibitions which have a tendency to excite laughter.
		The old comedy, dating from the establishment of democracy by Kleisthenes, about 510 BCE, arose, as we have seen, from the obscene jests of Dionysian revellers, to which was given a political application.
		The period of the middle comedy extended from the close of the Peloponnesian war to the enthralment of Athens by Philip of Macedon; that is to say, from the closing years of the fifth to nearly the middle of the fourth century BCE.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greek_comedy (1323 words)

	drama
		Greek drama has some of the same characteristics as religious ritual works do: explaining the relation of humans to God, of humans to the world, violence and its origins, and attempting to control the irrational and material worlds.
		Some of the first Greek comedies were mainly satirical, and they mocked men in power for their foolishness and vanity.
		The comedy style is based on the Aristotelian tradition that states that comedy concerns average, or below average, people who have a change for their bad circumstances to turn good.
	www.shoshone.k12.id.us /greek/drama.htm (682 words)

	Greek Theater
		Greek comedy was derived from two different sources, the more known being the choral element which included ceremonies to stimulate fertility at the festival of Dionysus or in ribald drunken revel in his honor.
		The second source of Greek comedy was that from the Sicilian mimes, who put on very rude performances where they would make satirical allusions to audience members as they ad-libbed their performances.
		Aristotle highly criticized comedy, saying that it was just a ridiculous imitation of lower types of man with eminent faults emphasized for the audience's pleasure, such as a mask worn to show deformity, or for the man to do something like slip and fall on a banana peel.
	faculty.saintleo.edu /reynolds/HON150-F03/Lectures/theater.htm (4659 words)

	Greek Theater
		Ancient Greeks from the 5th century BC onwards were fascinated by the question of the origins of tragedy and comedy.
		Greek plays were performed as part of religious festivals in honor of the god Dionysus, and unless later revived, were performed only once.
		Early Greek theaters were probably little more than open areas in city centers or next to hillsides where the audience, standing or sitting, could watch and listen to the chorus singing about the exploits of a god or hero.
	academic.reed.edu /humanities/110Tech/Theater.html (3005 words)

	RomanComedy
		By 300 BC Greek culture had subtly shifted over to what would later be called Hellenistic, which refers to the transplanting of Greek ideas and techniques to all parts of the then known world, both East and West.
		English Restoration Comedy is Plautine in form and much of its spirit, role of the cunning slave, the arrogant old master, and the lovably idiotic son are all there, with more that later times would want to add.
		But through the Greek disguise, shines one of the few glimpses of a basic, honest, genuinely funny and multifarious Roman character and the old Roman mode of speech, which were soon to be submerged by the elegance of the Augustan masters.
	community.middlebury.edu /~harris/LatinAuthors/RomanComedy.html (1128 words)

	Comedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Comedy is judged according to a person’s taste.
		The word "comedy" is derived from the Classical Greek κωμῳδία, which is a compound either of κῶμος (revel) or κώμη (village) and ᾠδή (singing): it is possible that κῶμος itself is derived from κώμη, and originally meant a village revel.
		Comedy, in contrast, portrays a hero who is both young and relatively powerless, who is in conflict or agon (Classical Greek ἀγών) against an older moral or social authority, a confrontation described by Northrop Frye as a struggle between a "society of youth" and a "society of the old".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Comedy (1238 words)

	84.02.07: The Grouch (Dyskolos) by Menander An Example of Greek New Comedy
		Comedy, tragedy, and philosophy helped to shape the new form of comedy, but the most potent formative influence was the condition of the world in which the dramatists lived.
		Greek comic poetry may be said to have had its end with Menander, but it also may be said that it has no foreseeable end.
		Their amazement, after I finished the last summary, when they learned of the ancient Greek origins of the plays was equal to mine many years ago as I read my first greek comedy and was struck by the universality of human nature and of humor in general.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1984/2/84.02.07.x.html (6004 words)

	308 Early Greek Comedy and Satyr Plays, Classical Drama and Theatre
		Greek comedy would have to wait until the next century to be considered an art form on equal footing with tragedy—and even so, only when it finally adopted a more "serious" tone.
		Among the first documented events in the early history of Old Comedy is that at some time around 440 BCE drama in general, and comedy in particular, was given an additional venue, the Lenaea, a festival with close associations to the Dionysia.
		Furthermore, because comedies at both festivals were always presented as single works, instead of trilogies, the comic playwrights had in general far fewer opportunities than tragedians to showcase their work.
	www.usu.edu /markdamen/ClasDram/chapters/081earlygkcom.htm (5863 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, O'Bryhim, Greek and Roman Comedy
		If not for the relatively few translations of ancient comedy, the general reader might think that the Greeks and Romans were humorless wrecks, obsessed with death and disaster.
		The scarcity of new translations of ancient comedies may stem from any number of factors, including the erroneous belief that what is serious is by definition more worthwhile than what is humorous.
		Since ancient comedies are sometimes inextricably bound to the time in which they were written, the best way to understand these translations is to read the elements of each section in the order in which they appear.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exobrgre.html (879 words)

	LYSISTRATA and Old Comedy
		The plays of Greek Old Comedy tend to employ plots of a very fanciful nature and contain elements of fantasy, farce, satire, parody, and explicit references to contemporary political and/or social problems.
		Kenneth McLeish points out that the structure of Aristophanic comedy is more closely related to the techniques of stand-up comedy than to the types of comic drama we have become accustomed to today.
		He wanted an end to Greek fighting against Greek so that they could better protect themselves from foreign enemies, and he feared, correctly, that the war would do irreparable damage to the strength and security of the Greek city-states.
	www.indiana.edu /~thtr/2002/lysistrata/old_comedy.html (602 words)

	310 Middle and New Comedy, Classical Drama and Theatre
		When they ventured to speak that most fundamental tool of Greek culture, the honeyed gift that once had lilted over the lips of Homer, Sappho and Aeschylus, it was reshaped in their guttural gullets, mouths ill-tuned to the delicate rhythms and intricacies down which epic, lyric and tragedy flowed.
		As such, the precepts of Greek theatre, such as the three-actor and five-act "rules," came to be well-known far outside Athens.
		Diphilus' comedy is no easier to gauge—as with Philemon, only tattered remnants of his works survive in Greek—even though both Plautus and Terence, Roman comic playwrights living a century or so later, adapted Diphilus' work.
	www.usu.edu /markdamen/ClasDram/chapters/101latergkcomedy.htm (5977 words)

	Greek Comedy Dancing In Rome
		Upon Greek foundations of narrative structure, metre, and form in general, Roman writings are built, Romanised though they be in subject-matter—but Rome's sterility of invention in that field is suited rather to the discussion of literary men than of dance-lovers.
		As time goes on Greek dances are transplanted, with the degree of success to be expected among a race whose minds, though active, are pleased only by material power, gain, and ostentation: by a process of atrophy following non-appreciation, the symbolism disappears from symbolic dances and the ideal of beauty from the purely beautiful dances.
		It is vaguely asserted that the Roman stage amplified the Greek scope of pantomime.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles06/dance-2.shtml (1777 words)

	Aristophanes
		HE literary activity of the famous Greek comedy writer, Aristophanes, covered a period of forty years.
		During that time the telling satire of his pen was brought to bear alike on prominent men, political trends, and social foibles.
		The local character of the plays of the first period had by the third period given way to a cosmopolitanism that marks Aristophanes as the transition-link between what is termed "Old Comedy" and the "Middle" and "New Comedy" of Greece.
	www.theatredatabase.com /ancient/aristophanes_001.html (503 words)

	English Works! Literature: Guide to Drama
		Modern tragedy - unlike Greek tragedy, the protagonist is often a common or middle class person, not high born, noble or important.
		Ancient Greek Comedy - performed to show the humorous actions of one or more characters as they attempt to solve a problem.
		Black comedy is very different from other comedies in that this type tends to end unhappily.
	depts.gallaudet.edu /englishworks/literature/drama.html (1766 words)

	Plautus' Curculio: Introduction
		When we speak of Roman comedy we are usually talking about the work of two comedic playwrights who wrote at the beginning and middle of the second century B.C., Plautus and Terence.
		The comedy became a comedy of manners, with less emphasis on "slapstick" and farcical humor and more of an interest in the interactions between observable social types.
		Since Roman comedy adopted the convention of using Greek dress and Greek staging, the actors could always be thought of as Greek and not Roman.
	artemis.austincollege.edu /acad/cml/rcape/comedy/intro.html (1215 words)

	Roman Comedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		When the Romans became acquainted with Greek culture in the third century BC, they were drawn to the New Comedies that were so popular in that era.
		In comedy, however, the son with the help of a brash slave regularly outwit the father and make a fool of him.
		The Greek setting of the plays and the Greek names of the characters made this situation palatable to Roman audiences and authorities.
	depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu /classics/dunkle/comedy/romancom.htm (395 words)

	Greek comedy
		It is unlikely that Shakespeare would have known the satirical and inventive "old comedy" of Aristophanes, and his contact with the "new comedy" of Menander would have been through his Roman imitators.
		The Greek comedy probably grew from the often satirical choruses of the feast of Dionysus.
		Old comedy was episodic in form, the action changing both time and place.
	ise.uvic.ca /Library/SLT/drama/greekcomedy.html (157 words)

	Tragedy: the Basics
		Performance: Greek tragedies were performed in late March/early April at an annual state religious festival in honor of Dionysus.
		The Greek theatre was in the open air, on the side of a hill, and performances of a trilogy and satyr play probably lasted most of the day.
		The best tragic plot is single and complex, rather than double ("with opposite endings for good and bad"--a characteristic of comedy in which the good are rewarded and the wicked punished).
	faculty.gvsu.edu /websterm/Tragedy.htm (1297 words)

	Introduction to Theatre -- Ancient Greek Theatre
		Athens was defeated in the Peloponnesian War in 404 B.C. Greek society viewed gods in human terms - gods held grudges, etc., fought with each other - therefor their destiny (and those of humans) was uncertain
		Most of his plays were part of trilogies; the only extant Greek trilogy is The Orestia.
		In both comedy and tragedy, the chorus probably entered after the prolog and then stayed.
	novaonline.nv.cc.va.us /eli/spd130et/ancientgreek.htm (1459 words)

	St. Thomas Greek Orthodox Church
		Greeks have a deep respect for hospitality because sharing is one of the most common social activities and great pleasures of our life.
		THURSDAY COMEDY CLUB NIGHT: Opening event is the Greek Comedy Show Being Greek In America You’ll be laughing so hard that we are not responsible if you fall off your chair.
		Greek culture is manifested in the national instrument of Greece, the "BOUZOUKI" a stringed instrument similar to the mandolin that will take center stage.
	www.greekagora.org (1146 words)

	Greek Tragedy & Comedy
		That is to say, Greek Tragedy and Comedy were very particular events and occurred during specific historical moments.
		Certainly, Epic poetry (a form of lyric poetry) was the dominant art form before Tragedy and, later, Comedy took "center stage." Thus, for a more accurate understanding of the historical moment that was 5th Century Athenian Tragedy, it stands to reason that Epic poetry ought to be considered in our analysis of Greek Drama.
		Since the Iliad was the most lasting and impressionable Epic (lyric) poem whose story was known to all Hellens (Greeks), we will use it as a barometer with which to gauge the socio-cultural shift that took place in the early 5th Century that gave rise to Tragedy.
	www.albany.edu /faculty/dg6349/CLC223L_SP02 (1403 words)

	Free Essay The History of Greek Theater
		The Chorus in Greek Tragedy Theater — Was There a Point?: This 7-page analytical essay examines the role of the chorus in Greek Tragedy Theater.
		A 5 page paper which examines the influence that Greek drama has had upon modern day theater.
		Aristotle, by searching the works of writers of Greek tragedy, Aeschulus, Euripides and Sophocles (whose Oedipus Rex he considered the finest of all Greek tragedies), arrived at his definition of tragedy.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=25680 (2434 words)

	Aristophanes, Comedy and the Greek Theatre
		The performance of the play and its theatre were unlike any we experience today, for the Greek comedies (and tragedies) were part of both a religious celebration and a “best play”; competition.
		This was followed by two days of choral competition and a day of comedy, in which five comic playwrights presented a comedy like the Lysistrata (during the Peloponnesian War, only three comic playwrights competed).
		(See the page Lysistrata and Old Comedy for a discussion of the structure of the plays.) The comic actors were masked and wore padded costumes; when male characters were being portrayed, they often wore large leather phalluses—sometimes erect, sometimes not—that extended below their costumes.
	www.indiana.edu /~thtr/2002/lysistrata/theatre.html (544 words)

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