Early Drama
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Aristotle in his Poetics: Cathersis (Purification), Hamartia (error), Hubris(Pride)
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Greek Drama: Dionysus, song by dithyrambs, cathersis, satire, deus ex machina.
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Three important tragic playwrights
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Aschylus
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Father of tragedy
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Plays:
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The Persian
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Agamemnon
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The Libation Bearers
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The Eumenides
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The Suppliants
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Prometheus Bound
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Sophocles
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written 120 plays. Out of which only 7 survived.
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Theban trilogy
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Odeipus Rex
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Oedipus at Colonus
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Antigone
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Euripides
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Mystery Play
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Other names: Cycle plays/Corpus Christi Play
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Dramatised stories from Bible: Fall of Lucifer, Cain and Abel, Noah and the flood, the nativity and the passion of Christ
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Always ended with the last judgement.
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Cyclic drama
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Staged at York, Chester, Wakefield
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Traditionally performed on Corpus Christi day
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Mystery Plays:
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The Wakefield Cycle – 32 Plays
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Second Shepherd’s Play – 15th Century
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begins with a conversation between three shephards: Coll, Gib, and Daw
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The Chester Plays – 25 plays
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Serious and didactic
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Acted on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday in Whitsun Week from 1268 to 1577
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Important plays:
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Fall of Lucifer
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The Creation and The Fall
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The Conventry Plays -42 Plays
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Performed in conventry on the festival of Corpus Christi
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Miracle Play
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On the lives of Saints
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Plays:
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The Conservation of St. Paul
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The Play of the Sacrament
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Morality Play
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Evolved from the medieval sermon, conveyed a moral truth or lesson using allegorical terms. Personified charity, vice, death, youth
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Plays:
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The Castle of Perseverance
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The Somonyng Everyman (The Summoning Everyman)
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Skelton’s Magnificence
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