Slide 1 Ancient Greek Theatre About 600 BCE - about 250 BCE Slide 2 Origins Religious ceremonies –Funerals –Seasonal celebrations –Ceremonies honoring the gods Of particular…
Slide 1 Slide 2 Greek Theater Slide 3 Overview of Greek Theater The land Antigone The Theater Slide 4 The Land Greece has thousands of inhabited islands and dramatic mountain…
Slide 1 Sophocles Born around 497 B.C. and died around 406 B.C. Born around 497 B.C. and died around 406 B.C. Celebrated and acclaimed Greek playwright Celebrated and acclaimed…
Slide 1 Theater History Slide 2 Greek and Roman Theater “Drama…an imitation of action not the action itself.” -Aristotle Slide 3 The role of “drama” in the ancient…
Slide 1Oedipus Rex Lecture Slide 2 Sophocles Born 496 B.C. Wrote 113 plays, only 7 have survived From an area outside Athens, Greece Won 1 st at the Dionysian 18 times Innovator…
Slide 1 Renaissance theatre England Slide 2 Sources English theater during the Renaissance draws on two distinctly different traditions – Medieval theater Religious dramas…
Slide 1 Oedipus Rex and Greek Theater Slide 2 Social and Political – Athens 5 th Century BCE Sophocles born in Athens, 497 BC Athenian Government was “exclusionary democracy”…