Theatre scholarship general Flashcards
Peter Wilson role of tragedians
‘seen in a more general sense to be a teacher of the city’
Peter Wilson preparatory rituals for the festival of Dionysus
‘these rituals are all linked closely to the authority and power of the city itself.’
Christopher Carey the chorus
‘often the chorus’ reaction to events is a guide to the audience.’ BUT
‘Sometimes the emotional response or moral judgement of the chorus is mistaken’ because they are involved in the play
‘the chorus can be used to place these events in a broader context.’
Rutherford on Aristotle
‘Aristotle was prescribing what was best, not generalising about actual practice.’
Rutherford gods
‘terrifying powers that inexplicably pursue the helpless’
‘saviours and guardians of justice’
‘capricious gamesters playing cat-and-mouse with men.’
Budelmann characters in tragedy
‘even though extraordinary they seem somehow real.’
Oliver Taplin Greek tragedy
‘there is nothing intrinsically Dionysiac about Greek tragedy’
Oliver Taplin
‘theatre of the mind’
Goff women
‘ultimately dangerous’
