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can someone explain Ancient Greek Theater

how did it take generations to innovate from one actor on st...
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Unhinged primrose marketing idea filthpig
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I studied Shakespeare in college. Are you referring to how m...
Yellow galvanic stage foreskin
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Just in general why there was so much structure around every...
Unhinged primrose marketing idea filthpig
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rc fail? women couldn’t perform on stage. simple as.
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No that makes sense. I'm talking about the plays flowing a s...
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So that no one could tamper with them. They were all based o...
transparent idiot
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Wrong retard
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society was pretty sexist imo.
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the second you stop following tradition you get kike carniva...
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holy shit ur dum
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Also iambic pentameter is a real thing and had a rhythm that...
Yellow galvanic stage foreskin
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How does it serve the performance? I agree that his writi...
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It’s a rhythm, like horse hooves. subtle but captures ...
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Ty. One more thing. Can you please rank these speeche...
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This is just based on my personal preference but: Alas po...
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I had Yorick as my #1 too This painting is sick http...
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Just a hasty ranking. I personally think Hamlet is far and a...
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Error checking
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Something to do before you fucked an 11-year-old boy in the ...
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May very well be this simple
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my guess is that it developed out of religious rituals so th...
tantric multi-colored party of the first part nowag
  07/05/24
I think this is most accurate
Unhinged primrose marketing idea filthpig
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It preserved literary tradition during the 400 years Ancient...
transparent idiot
  07/05/24
but that tradition was probably some weird Mycenean shit nob...
tantric multi-colored party of the first part nowag
  07/05/24
Like Homer?
transparent idiot
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older, by far
tantric multi-colored party of the first part nowag
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Homer was preserved during the era from 1200-800BC when the ...
transparent idiot
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800 is still a few hundred years after the Myceneans disappe...
tantric multi-colored party of the first part nowag
  07/06/24
No one is talking about "Myceneans" but you. It do...
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by ancient accounts, the development was staggeringly quick....
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Ty
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What’s your favorite Greek play, brother Yours in C...
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not exactly contrarian picks, but of tragedies, aeschylus' a...
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The Acharnians and Clouds The Oresteia
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Date: July 5th, 2024 10:52 AM
Author: Unhinged primrose marketing idea filthpig

how did it take generations to innovate from one actor on stage to two actors on stage to eventually THREE actors on stage

why did they impose such a rigid structure on what must be included in a play, how the chorus responds and at what points, the speech patterns, number of acts, types of characters, etc.?

it seems so alien

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47811691)



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Date: July 5th, 2024 1:36 PM
Author: Unhinged primrose marketing idea filthpig



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Date: July 5th, 2024 10:00 PM
Author: Yellow galvanic stage foreskin

I studied Shakespeare in college. Are you referring to how men played female characters and whatnot? Women were not allowed to perform on stage iirc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47813751)



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Date: July 5th, 2024 10:03 PM
Author: Unhinged primrose marketing idea filthpig

Just in general why there was so much structure around everything. Elizabethan theater is the same in a lot of ways but also more familiar because it's English and more recent. But the focus on iambic pentameter, having a set number of acts, etc.

From what I'm reading about Greek theater it's completely alien with all day performances (how?) and "satyr plays"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47813764)



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Date: July 5th, 2024 10:06 PM
Author: histrionic idiotic office toilet seat

rc fail?

women couldn’t perform on stage. simple as.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47813769)



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Date: July 5th, 2024 10:07 PM
Author: Unhinged primrose marketing idea filthpig

No that makes sense. I'm talking about the plays flowing a strict format

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47813771)



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Date: July 5th, 2024 10:27 PM
Author: transparent idiot

So that no one could tamper with them. They were all based on oral tradition.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47813812)



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Date: July 6th, 2024 6:23 PM
Author: maize gaming laptop skinny woman

Wrong retard

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47815748)



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Date: July 6th, 2024 12:48 AM
Author: histrionic idiotic office toilet seat

society was pretty sexist imo.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47814104)



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Date: July 6th, 2024 12:53 AM
Author: Laughsome coiffed parlour wrinkle

the second you stop following tradition you get kike carnivals like the one u live in now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47814111)



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Date: July 6th, 2024 11:19 AM
Author: Unhinged primrose marketing idea filthpig



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Date: July 6th, 2024 6:26 PM
Author: Odious Tripping Dog Poop

holy shit ur dum

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47815761)



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Date: July 5th, 2024 10:01 PM
Author: Yellow galvanic stage foreskin

Also iambic pentameter is a real thing and had a rhythm that serves the performance of a drama, that might explain the “rigid structure”.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47813759)



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Date: July 5th, 2024 10:04 PM
Author: Unhinged primrose marketing idea filthpig

How does it serve the performance?

I agree that his writing flows very well when written in that format, but what other role does it play?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47813766)



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Date: July 5th, 2024 10:11 PM
Author: Yellow galvanic stage foreskin

It’s a rhythm, like horse hooves. subtle but captures your attention. And when you suddenly drop out of iambic pentameter it calls attention to that line, which is an important tactic for engaging the audience. Imagine if a play was written in the cadence of Joe Biden or John King or your drunk uncle, no one would care because it would suck and be boring and stupid. The show Deadwood actually employs this rhythmic verse a lot.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47813778)



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Date: July 5th, 2024 10:13 PM
Author: Unhinged primrose marketing idea filthpig

Ty.

One more thing.

Can you please rank these speeches

To be or not to be

Alas poor Yorick

Tomorrow and tomorrow

All the worlds a stage

Our revels now are ended

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47813786)



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Date: July 5th, 2024 10:16 PM
Author: Yellow galvanic stage foreskin

This is just based on my personal preference but:

Alas poor Yorick

All the world’s a stage

To be or not to be

Our revels now are ended

Tomorrow and tomorrow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47813790)



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Date: July 5th, 2024 10:18 PM
Author: Unhinged primrose marketing idea filthpig

I had Yorick as my #1 too

This painting is sick

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR8UKwbboSZpoJVIMlyR_MC6xY1r2wPyM-HIg&

Why do you put tomorrow last



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47813794)



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Date: July 5th, 2024 10:25 PM
Author: Yellow galvanic stage foreskin

Just a hasty ranking. I personally think Hamlet is far and above most of his other work. I like MacBeth but it doesn’t really have the same impact. Oddly enough one of my favorites is Titus Andronicus, considered a Lesser Work but more honest and nasty than his comedies and such, it was like that era’s equivalent of a grind house exploitation movie.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47813807)



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Date: July 5th, 2024 10:30 PM
Author: Unhinged primrose marketing idea filthpig
Subject: cr analysis



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Date: July 5th, 2024 10:28 PM
Author: transparent idiot

Error checking

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47813814)



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Date: July 5th, 2024 10:03 PM
Author: swollen exhilarant antidepressant drug faggotry

Something to do before you fucked an 11-year-old boy in the anus.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47813765)



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Date: July 5th, 2024 10:04 PM
Author: Unhinged primrose marketing idea filthpig

May very well be this simple

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47813767)



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Date: July 6th, 2024 11:30 AM
Author: Tan coldplay fan dysfunction



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Date: July 5th, 2024 10:05 PM
Author: tantric multi-colored party of the first part nowag

my guess is that it developed out of religious rituals so the format was important

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47813768)



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Date: July 5th, 2024 10:07 PM
Author: Unhinged primrose marketing idea filthpig

I think this is most accurate

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47813772)



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Date: July 5th, 2024 10:29 PM
Author: transparent idiot

It preserved literary tradition during the 400 years Ancient Greeks went without writing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47813816)



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Date: July 5th, 2024 10:30 PM
Author: tantric multi-colored party of the first part nowag

but that tradition was probably some weird Mycenean shit nobody even knows about

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47813818)



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Date: July 5th, 2024 10:31 PM
Author: transparent idiot

Like Homer?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47813828)



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Date: July 5th, 2024 10:32 PM
Author: tantric multi-colored party of the first part nowag

older, by far

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47813829)



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Date: July 6th, 2024 6:09 PM
Author: transparent idiot

Homer was preserved during the era from 1200-800BC when the Greeks had no writing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47815722)



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Date: July 6th, 2024 6:25 PM
Author: tantric multi-colored party of the first part nowag

800 is still a few hundred years after the Myceneans disappeared

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47815757)



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Date: July 6th, 2024 6:34 PM
Author: transparent idiot

No one is talking about "Myceneans" but you. It doesn't matter what you call these people at any given time, what matters is that they were speaking the same language and preserving the literary traditions of people who lived in that same place 400 years earlier, despite no one being able to read or write SHIT during those 400 years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47815779)



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Date: July 6th, 2024 11:57 AM
Author: Motley Candlestick Maker Mental Disorder

by ancient accounts, the development was staggeringly quick. there were older ritual songs dedicated to dionysus called dithyrambs that seemed to be the archaic precursor (like what hank_scropio posited), but apparently aeschylus was the first guy to move from one separate actor to two separate actors (in the context of athenian tragic plays performed at dionysian festivals), and it was only a generation or so earlier that someone had moved from just the chorus to the chorus and a single actor -- so they could have a very basic dialogue, but the chorus could still dance around the stage as was traditional. even in aeschylus, the forms of all his extant plays are weird in terms of how you treat the chorus (i.e. the only speaker in dithyrambs), like he's still heavily playing with the form. only a generation or so later, you get sophocles and euripides, who crystalized the classic form of athenian tragedy. my hot take is that it's not a coincidence that the rapid interest in and development of these big artistic/literary phenomena coincided with athens becoming rich as hell and culturally dominant over the greek world through the persian wars. ascending empires tend to be where some of the coolest stuff is produced, and it's often quick as fuck, like tragedy.

american literature already peaked and our art is shit because we're a decaying, crumbling empire, btw. enjoy our vapid, self-indulgent female novelists.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47814675)



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Date: July 6th, 2024 11:58 AM
Author: Unhinged primrose marketing idea filthpig

Ty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47814679)



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Date: July 6th, 2024 1:27 PM
Author: histrionic idiotic office toilet seat



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47814979)



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Date: July 6th, 2024 2:13 PM
Author: exciting lay laser beams

What’s your favorite Greek play, brother

Yours in Christ,



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47815116)



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Date: July 6th, 2024 3:34 PM
Author: Motley Candlestick Maker Mental Disorder

not exactly contrarian picks, but of tragedies, aeschylus' agamemnon and euripides' bacchae; of comedies, probably the wasps

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47815324)



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Date: July 6th, 2024 6:27 PM
Author: Odious Tripping Dog Poop

The Acharnians and Clouds

The Oresteia

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550778&forum_id=2...id#47815764)