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A monologue or dialogue preceding the entry of the chorus, which presents the tragedy’s topic.

The main function of a prologue tells some earlier story and connects it to the main story.

Serves as a means to introduce characters of a story and throws light on their roles.

A prologue was a complete episode or the first act which was succeeded by the remaining acts of a play.

Parados

Commonly known meaning; the first song sung by the chorus as it enters the orchestra.

Typically follows the play’s prologue.

Parode refers to a side entrance of a theater.

Allow side access to the stage for actors and to the orchestra for members of the chorus.

In typical Greek theatres a parode was on each side of the stage

(Carleigh)

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Episodes are several

One or two actors interact with the chorus.

They are sung or chanted

Speeches and dialogue are typically iambic hexameter.

An incident or an event that is part of a progression or a larger sequence.

Stasimon

A choral ode in which the chorus may comment on or react to the preceding episode.

A stationary song sung by the chorus after it has taken up it has taken up its station in the orchestra.

Loosely translated as any extended song of the chorus after the parodos.

Chorus sings the stasimon while remaining in the orchestra after the parodos.

Tend to get shorter as the play progress.

(Carleigh)

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- Group of approx. 15 men
- Sang lyric poetry, danced to musical accompaniment.
- Unpaid
- Regarded as a civic duty
- Trained and costumed
- Costumes: dressed as the people they represented, wore light masks.
(Chelsea)

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- Closer connection established between the audience and the actors.
- Help prepare the audience for dramatic shifts.
- Playwright would be effective in controlling the overall mood of the play.
- Reflected upon what has or what would happen.
- Functions as the conscience of the people (ethical perception).
- Separated scene of action from one another.
- Allows audience to identify with a group that is "outside" the action.
(Chelsea)

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Plays were performed in outdoor amphitheaters that could seat around 40,000 people. (Annesa)

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-There was always a chorus in Greek tragedy.
-It contained a number of functions. They sang and dance.
-They were called the ideal audience , reacting to the action as the poet would most desire.
-They modulated the atmosphere and tone. Representing what might be called "typical Athenian citizens," there actions were conservative not submissive.
-Plays were very often named for the Chorus.
- When the action centers on more than one character , the play may be designated by the Chorus.
-A function of the Chorus or of its leader was to question new characters coming on to stage as to their identity and purpose.
-Since the stages had no curtains and the plays no act divisions, the Choral odes were also used to represent the passage of time -a flexible interval extending from a few minutes to several days or weeks.
-Male actors only
(Annesa)

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- The Unit of Action. Play followed one main story line with no or few subplots
- The Unity of Palace. Play occurs in a single place and does not change setting. ( the stage represents one place)
-The Unity of Time. The action in a play should take place over no more that 24 hours.
(Annesa)

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Deus ex Machina: The term has advanced to mean a plot device where an apparently unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly resolved by the inspired and unexpected intervention of some new event or character. Its function can be to surprise the audience and bring the tale to a happy ending.

A cited example of Deus ex Machina in the Medea is when a dragon-drawn chariot sent by the sun god, is used to take his granddaughter Medea, who has just committed murder, away from her husband Jason and to the safety and civilization of Athens

The messenger speech: shadows important offstage action in Greek tragedy because it was the only way the Greek audience could learn of events that were considered too gory or beyond the capability of dramatists at the time, this is often featured in Exodos,

(Breanna)

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Theatron

The Theotron means the "viewing place"

on a hillside above the orchestra

this gives us the word "theater"

Orchestra

Flat circular area between audience and actors

Space occupied by chorus

The Orchestra means "dancing place"

Parados

Were chorus ad actors made there entrance and exits

The entrance of the chorus (The Parodos) is a very important part of the play

Skene

The Skene means the "tent"

Directly behind the stage

The side of Skene was decorated to look like a palace or temple because it was facing the audience

Actors could play from its roof

Actors could emerge from the doors of the Skene

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• Drama was first performed on the floors in the countryside of Greece

• Historians summarized that the dancing place or ‘’orchestra’’ was moved to the foot of the temple of the god being honored

• By the 5th century B.C the Greek theatre had relations to the rural stone

• The stone benches were built at the foot of a semi-circular hillside

• In the theatron ; also known as the seeing place the audience sat on these benchesn

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• The parados a term which identified the entrance song of the chorus in a tragedy

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• Perpendicular to the orchestra was a skene, a rectangular building with three doors in front, providing a backdrop and an area where actors could disappear from the scene and change into costumes

• Toward the end of the century a small platform was introduced called proskenion

• The proskenion appeared to give actors more visibility and separate them from the chorus in the orchestra

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• Performances began at dawn and lasted the entire day

• The stage was built within a circle to amplify the sounds and allow audience to see well

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Most Popular Playwrights (5th Century B.C.)

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Most Popular Playwrights (5th Century B.C.)

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- Aeschylus "father of tragedy": introduced two actors on the stage.
- Sophocles: wrote Oedipus Rex and added a third actor to the stage.
- Euripides: reduced the role of the chorus.

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What Is The Role Of The Chorus In A Greek Drama?

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