Ancient Greece Theater
Our cyber assignment today is to look at p. 136 from the textbook and answer the following questions about Greek theater.
(1) The two kinds of dramas that were performed in Greek theater were tragedies and dramas. Tragedies were serious dramas and they had common themes like love, hate, war, or betrayal. They usually have main characters known as "tragic heroes" who also have a "tragic fall" which would lead to their downfall. Comedies contained scenes that had slapstick situations and crude humor. The playwrights often made fun of politics, respected people, and ideas of time.
(2b) The movie Dumb and Dumber can be related to Greek Comedies because it uses slapstick and crude humor because the two main characters are very slow and they are put in situations where they don't know how to act properly.
(3) The theater is very open and there is no roof. There are a lot of seats and they rise pretty high, so it must be a pretty tall theater. It's shaped like a dome, so everyone can see from their angles.
(1) The two kinds of dramas that were performed in Greek theater were tragedies and dramas. Tragedies were serious dramas and they had common themes like love, hate, war, or betrayal. They usually have main characters known as "tragic heroes" who also have a "tragic fall" which would lead to their downfall. Comedies contained scenes that had slapstick situations and crude humor. The playwrights often made fun of politics, respected people, and ideas of time.
(2b) The movie Dumb and Dumber can be related to Greek Comedies because it uses slapstick and crude humor because the two main characters are very slow and they are put in situations where they don't know how to act properly.
(3) The theater is very open and there is no roof. There are a lot of seats and they rise pretty high, so it must be a pretty tall theater. It's shaped like a dome, so everyone can see from their angles.
Good work, Alex.
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