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Dramaturgy
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The art/ technique of composing a drama/play
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Playwright
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Someone who writes a play
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Drama
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The text
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Play
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Drama/text performed
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Tragedy (Aristotle)
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-A literary work in which the main character (usually a person of high rank) suffers a major downfall to some error or frailty (tragic flaw)
-tragoedia (“goat song”)
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Tragicomedy
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Plot similar to tragedy, but ends like a comedy
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Comedy
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-when compared to a tragedy, lighter form of entertainment; happy ending
-Komos (revel) and Ode (song)
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Satire
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Form of entertainment that makes fun of anything-purpose is to bring about change-get people thinking-appeals to mind
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Farce
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Humor is that of slapstick, bodily “txns” ( I don’t recognize this word- actions?) appeals to funny bond
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Dramatic Irony
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When audience knows things the character doesn’t know
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Drama
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“a thing done”
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Theater
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“a seeing place”
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Dionysus
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Greek god of wine and fertility
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Apollo
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Greek god of the sun, poetry, music, medicine and prophecy
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The Muses
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The nine daughters of Zeus &Mnemosyne, each presided over a different art or science
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