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- Greek Chorus
Plays of the ancient Greek theatre always included a chorus that offered a variety of background and summary information to help the audience follow the performance. In many of these plays, the chorus expressed to the audience what the main characters could not say, such as their hidden fears or secrets. The chorus often provided other characters with the insight they needed.
→inherit the past and usher in the future serve as a link between past and future (承先啟後)
→the main theme
- The three Greek tragedies are Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.
Agamemnon Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus Medea
- tragedy
Tragedy is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes in its audience an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in the viewing. Tragic plots were most often based upon myths from the oral traditions of archaic epics. In tragic theatre, however, these narratives were presented by actors. Athenian tragedies were performed in late March/early April at an annual state religious festival in honor of Dionysus.
Syllables
- recap (n.)
meaning: a summary of what has been said; a recapitulation - ex-→out
ex. exile - de-→down, away from
ex. decapitation(n.)
meaning: execution by cutting off the victim's head - heal-→make whole, sound
ex. healthy, healer - re-→back, again
ex. reveal(v.)
meaning: make (previously unknown or secret information) known to others. - con-→together
ex. conceal(v.)
meaning: keep from sight; hide. - fore-→before
ex. forecast, foreshadowing - accuse of...
- prevent from...