The tension of the opening is never fully dissipated even as Achilleus shows his hospitality and makes certain promises to Priam about holding off the fighting for twelve days while the Trojans bury the son of their ruler. However, just as it appears that the situation is concluded, the god Hermes comes to Priam and warns him to leave now because if the Greeks find him asleep in the morning, they may decide he is worth more as a ransom and will not allow him to leave as Achilleus has promised.
The drama is characterized by language that often involves or approaches poetry, but the presentation differs greatly. An oral tradition of epic poetry places one "actor," the speaker before an audience as he recites the epic poem and so tells the story. Any dramatic element emerges from the characters and the story, carried by the poetry and involving images that can be created in the minds of the listeners. The drama creates images directly on a stage, making use of a number of actors who dress, speak, and behave like the characters whose roles they take on stage, in the Greek era using masks and exaggerating the action to convey the meaning. A fundamental element in both genres are scenes in which characters interact with one another, scenes described by the poet and acted out in the drama.
In a play like The Phoenician Women, the entire work is a contained drama with a more specific focus than is found in an epic poem, while a given scene may have the same sort of dramatic power and sustaining quality as the one scene from The Iliad has. One scene in the play, found in lines 446-638, three characters interact, Eteocles, Polyneices, and Jocasta. The play as a whole concerns the conflict between the two sons of Oedipus, Eteocles and Polyneices, and the interaction they have with their mother, Jocasta. The story of Oedipus was well-known and served as the source for a number of dramas of the time. The audience did not need to be told the story and instead would understand fully the interactions they saw among these characters and the background leading...
Origin and Appeal of Drama A generally accepted theory is that drama's origins lie in prehistoric human beings and their rituals which contained music, dance, masks, costumes, a specific performance area, and a division between audience and performance. Later, in Egypt about 4,000 BC texts were written on tomb walls with plot, characters, and stage directions for enacting the body's resurrection. Between 3,000 and 2,000 BC other plays developed which
Drama Poetry How is the more direct performative aspect of drama and/or poetry reflected in these forms? (Consider for example, each genre's uses of literary structure, language, technique, and style.) In Rupert Goold's Macbeth, the language and literary structure are following the same lines from the Shakespearian play. Yet, the way the characters are speaking and performing their roles helps the individual to understand the setting and background of what is occurring.
Trifles as Feminist Literature American drama studies often neglect the influence of female writers and focus primarily on writers such as Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller. However, women often worked in collaboration with their male playwright counterparts, and in fact, helped to establish and propagate various dramatic movements in the United States. Among these influential women playwrights was Susan Glaspell, who along with Eugene O'Neill, George "Jig" Cram Cook,
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drama "Oedipus the King," by Sophocles. Specifically, it will identify and apply terminology used in the play, and identify the term "irony." OEDIPUS These literary devices are important parts of drama. exposition - Exposition is the beginning of the play which sets the tone, theme, mood, and setting of the play. In "Oedipus the King," the exposition lists who is on stage, who is speaking, and describes the royal palace in Thebes. rising
Courtly Love in Contrast to Romantic Love There is much controversy with regard to the idea of love and perhaps one of the best ways to address the concept would be to consider the wide range of romance texts written throughout the years. While generally used in similar contexts, the idea of love can be seen differently by individuals depending on their perspectives and the environments they are present in. Courtly
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