※Dionysia was a large festival in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus, the central event of which were the theatrical performances of dramatic tragedies.
※comedy, in the contemporary meaning of the term, is any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or to amuse by inducing laughter, espcially in theatre,television, film and stand-up comedy.
Nothrop Fyre famously depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of the old"
→screwball comedy
→balck comedy
→romantic comedy
※Catharsis is the purification and purgation of emotions─especially pity and fear,─through art or any extreme change in emotion that result in renewal and restoration.
Catharsis is a term in dramatic art that describes the effect of tragedy primcipally on the audience.
※femme fatal is a stock character of a mysterious and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers,often leading them into compromising,dangerous,and deadly situation.
※Thespis was the first person ever to appear on stage as an actor playing(instead of speaking as him or herself)
He was a singer of dithyrambs.He is credited with introducing a new style in which one singer or actor performed the words of individual characters in the stories.
※Tragic Hero
Aristotle suggests that a hero of a tragedy must evoke in the audience a sense of pity or fear,saying,"the change of fortune presented must not be the spectacle of a virtuous man brought from properity to adversity."
This is why Aristotle points out the simple fact that"The change of fortune should be not from bad tp good,but,reversely from good to bad."
For example,King Oedipus kills his father from impulse and marries his mother out of ignorance.
※Tragic Flaw(Tragic Error)
Aristotle description of the term,translated by S.H.Butcher as an error of judgment,allows room for interpretations that include a mistake of fact,a tendency towards certain mistakes because of moral weakness,or a combination of the two in varying degress.
※hubris means extreme pride or self-confidence.When it offends the God oa ancient Greece,it is usually pnished. Hubris is usually perceived as a characteristic of an individual rather than a group,although the group the offender belongs to may suffer consequences from wrongful act.
※Sphinx is a mythical creature with, as a minimum,the body of a lion and a human head.It is mythicised as treacherous and merciless.Those who cannot answer its riddle suffer a fate typical in such mythological stories,as they are killed and eaten by this ravenous monster.This deadly version of a sphinx appears in the myth and drama of theOedipus.
※riddle is a statement oe question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning,put forth as a puzzle to be solved.
※Jocasta was a daughter of Menoeceus and Queen consort of Thebes,mother od Oedipus.She was also sister of Creon.
※Oedipus(swollen foot) is a tragic hero in Greek mythology.He accidentally fullfilled the prophecy,despite his efforts not to,that he would kill his father(King Laius) and marry his mather(Queen Jocasta)
※prophet is an individual who is cliamed to have been contacted by the supermatural or the divine,and speak for them,serving as an inter mediary with humanity,delivering its new found knowledge from the supermatual entity to other people.
※Dramatic irony
This type of ironyis the device of giving the spectator an item of information that at least one of characters in the narrative is unaware of.
magni-:big,great
magnificent:extremely impressive because of being very big, beautiful etc e.g.We visited a magnificent palace in the city.
magnify:make something look bigger than it is e.g.Tony wantes to magnify the photo.
magnitude:greatness of size or importance e.g.No one comprehended the magnitude of the problem then.
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