4. GREEK THEATER (700 BCE)
Dionysus – Ancient Greece God of wine, Vegetation, Pleasure, Festivity.
The Cult of Dionysus – a religious festival to honor their god, DIONYSUS.
Three Famous Greek Tragedy Playwrights
-Sophocles
-Euripides
-Aeschylus
Three types of drama in the theater
- Tragedy
- Comedy
- Satyr play
5. TRAGEDY
- Greek word “tragos” or “goat”, meaning “song” and aeidin
“to sing”. This refers to the goats sacrificed to Dionysus before
performances, or to goatskins worn by the performers.
- Tragedy dealt with tragic events and had a sorrowful ending.
Thespis
Father of Tragedy
was the first actor who brought in the use of mask in tragedy.
6. COMEDY
- A comedy plays were derived from imitation.
- Aristophanes wrote many comedy plays such
as:
Lysistrata, a humorous tale about a strong woman
who led an allied female group to end the war in
Greece.
Cyclops was an adventurous comedy by Euripides.
7. SATYR PLAY
- It is considered as an Ancient Greek form of tragic comedy which
contained comic elements to lighten the overall mood or give the
serious play a happy ending.
- Satyr play was a short, lighthearted tailpiece performed after each
trilogy of the tragedies.
TYPE OF PLAY
Half-man character
Half-goat character
Theatrons- A theater buildings, were large, open-air structures
constructed on the slopes of hills.
Three elements of Theatrons
Orchestra
Skene
Parodos
8. Three Elements of Theatrons
ORCHESTRA
It is where the play, dance, religious rites, and acting took place.
It was a huge, circular or rectangular area at the center part of the theater.
SKENE
It is were the actors could enter and exit the stage.
This was a tent at the back of the stage, decorated to create a setting.
PARADOS
It was located at the side entrance of the theatron.
It was the passageway used by the actors, chorus, and audience to enter the
theater.
9.
10. ROMAN THEATER (400 BCE)
Ancient Rome, these art forms verbally explained the tragedies of
Seneca.
Seneca, the staging of comedies of Plautus, and the festival
performances of street theater and acrobatics.
The triumvir Pompey, it is one of the permanent, nonwooden
theaters in Rome.
Scae fron, it was an elaborately decorated background of theater
stage and placed within a large columned veranda with a broad
garden complex of fountains and statues.
12. ROMAN THEATER (400 BCE)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)- he was a playwright actor, and
poet. He was called the English national poet and was generally
considered The Greatest Dramatist Of All Time in the whole world.
His works consisted 38 plays, some of works are:
-Romeo and Juliet -A midsummer Night’s Dream
-Hamlet -Anthony and Cleopatra
-Julius Caesar -Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare's 4 Tragedies
1. Hamlet 3. King Lear
2. Othello 4. Macbeth
13. ROMAN THEATER (400 BCE)
Christopher Marlowe, he was a contemporary
playwrights and wrote tragedies such as Dr. Faustus
and the Jew of Malta; and Thomas Kyd who wrote
The Spanish Tragedy.
Catherine de’ Medici, The Queen of France, she
helped ballet to developed and expand from Italy to
France.
Le Paradis d’ Amour, a ballet performance, it was a
piece of work performed at her daughter’s wedding.
14. ROMAN THEATER (400 BCE)
Proscenium, the area of a theater
surrounding a stage opening, was introduced.
Commedia dell’arte or Comedy of the
Profession, this meant unwritten or
improvised drama, emphasizing the manner of
performance rather than the subject matter of
the play.
15. BAROQUE THEATER (1600-1750)
• The Baroque theater became popular and notable by the use of
technology in broadways or commercial plays.
• Deus ex Machina, a latin word word which means god of the
machine soution and it was a technology which affected the
content of the performed pieces then.
Orpheus by Claudio Monteverdi
16. Neoclassical Theater (1800-1900)
It was characterized by its grandiosity which costumes and
sceneries were highly decorated and emphasized.
The main concept of the plays were to entertain and teach
lessons.
The lighting and sound effects enhanced the mood and the
message of each scene, thereby improving dramatic experience.
17. Three Neoclassical Playwrights
Pierre Cornielle, the father of French Tragedy.
Some of his works,The Cid.
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin was widely known as
Moliere and famous for his comedies and Tartuffe
and misanthrope were some of his works.
Jean Racine, was tragedian, beloved for his simple
approach to action and the linguistic rhythms and
effects he achieved. Adromaque and Phedra were
is scripts.
THE LIMELIGHT was the first spotlight used in the
United staeas during the Neoclassical period. The limelight
18. ACTIVITY
TIMELINE SCROLL
CREATE YOUR WON SCROLL FOR THE EVOLUTION OF
THEATRICAL FORMS TIMELINE. YOU CAN DRAW OR CUT
PICTURES OF DIFFERENT ELEMENTS OF THEATER AND
PLAYS OF A CERTAIN PERIOD.
FOR THE MATERIALS, CHECK YOUR BOOK ON PAGE 211.
19. Two Content Layout with SmartArt
• Task 1
• Task 2
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Group
A
Group
B
Group
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Group
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• First bullet point here
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20. ACTIVITY
TIMELINE SCROLL
Create your own scroll for
the evolution of theatrical
forms timeline. You can
draw or cut pictures of
different elements of
theater and plays of a
certain period.
CRITERIA SCORE
QUALITY OF
CRAFTMANSHIP
10 POINTS
RELEVANCE OF THE
ARTWORK
7 POINTS
PERSONAL
EXPRESSION AND
CREATIVITY
7 POINTS
OBSERVANCE OF THE
TIME FRAME
3 POINTS
NEATNESS 3 POINTS
TOTAL 30 POINTS
21. CRITERIA SCORE
QUALITY OF CRAFTMANSHIP 10 POINTS
RELEVANCE OF THE
ARTWORK
7 POINTS
PERSONAL EXPRESSION
AND CREATIVITY
7 POINTS
OBSERVANCE OF THE TIME
FRAME
3 POINTS
NEATNESS 3 POINTS
TOTAL 30 POINTS
