Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) was an Italian scholar‚ poet‚ and early humanist during the reformation of the Renaissance period. He was one of the greatest poets of the 14th-16th century‚ and is regarded as the father of the humanist movement. Petrarch was a prolific writer. Not only was he known for poetry in Italian and Latin‚ but also hundreds of letters‚ essays and histories. Like Dante‚ a generation before Petrarch wrote in a vernacular style to bring Italian a literary language. In
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In the play Antigone there are many references that link to the oppression of women. Creon made many convictions insulting womenkind. His convictions seemed true to a large population of men. I believe the majority of men‚ in the ancient Greek times believed in the undeniable domination of women. The start of the Greeks began around 2000 B.C. with the Mycenaeans. They inhabited the Greek peninsula. (Perry 40) “If we transgress . . . we” (Beatty 61) Ismene claimed
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FINAL PERIOD ELEMENTS OF DRAMA Drama comes from Greek words meaning "to do" or "to act." A play is a story acted out. It shows people going through some eventful period in their lives‚ seriously or humorously. The speech and action of a play recreate the flow of human life. A play comes fully to life only on the stage. On the stage it combines many arts those of the author‚ director‚ actor‚ designer‚ and others. Dramatic performance involves an intricate process of rehearsal based upon imagery
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Hamlet is a play written by William Shakespeare that very closely follows the dramatic conventions of revenge in Elizabethan theater. All revenge tragedies originally stemmed from the Greeks‚ who wrote and performed the first plays. After the Greeks came Seneca who was very influential to all Elizabethan tragedy writers. Seneca who was Roman‚ basically set all of the ideas and the norms for all revenge play writers in the Renaissance era including William Shakespeare. The two most famous
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Greek and Roman Art Grinning masks‚ padded fat suites‚ and enlarged genitals all have something in common. They were part of a comedy in the classical Greek theater. The theater originated around 400 B.C. and different types of plays were common. The comedy and tragedy is what I will focus on along with the theater itself and some terms from the theater. The theater itself was held outside in an amphitheater. The auditorium originally had seat made of wood‚ but later stone was used.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the earliest known literary works. This Babylonian epic poem arises from stories in the Sumerian language. Although the Sumerian stories are older (probably dating to at least 2100 B.C.)‚ it was probably composed around 1900 BC. The epic deals with themes of heroism‚ friendship‚ loss‚ and the quest for eternal life. Different historical periods are reflected in literature. National and tribal sagas‚ accounts of the origin of the world and of customs‚ and myths which
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of Dionysus at the Dionysia every year. By the 600’s BC‚ the dithyramb was changed into a formalized narrative sung by a chorus (Greek Theatre). Tragedy lost its Dionysiac associations very early‚ and only one of the preserved plays‚ Bacchae by Euripides‚ has any Dionysiac content‚ namely the myth of resistance to the introduction of Dionysus’s cult to Thebes‚ and the god’s revenge upon the city (Greek Tragedy). In the 500s BC‚ the poet‚ Thespis of Attica‚ is credited
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Medea: Looking for Revenge Medea‚ a play by the Greek playwright Euripides‚ explores the Greek- barbarian dichotomy through the character of Medea‚ a princess from the "barbarian"‚ or non-Greek‚ land of Colchis. Throughout the play‚ it becomes evident to the reader that Medea is no ordinary woman by Greek standards. Central to the whole plot is Medea’s barbarian origins and how they are related to her actions. In this paper‚ I am attempting to answer questions such as how Medea behaves
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Many well known and popular plays were written during this time period by playwrights such as Sophocles‚ Euripides‚ and Aeschylus. Most Greek plays were tragedies such as the Oresteia and Antigone. One of the most well known theaters in Athens is the Theater of Dionysus. This theatre‚ like so many other Greek theatres‚ used architecturally applied sciences and
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Time Changes Everything In the tragedy Medea‚ written by Euripides the language applies to the time it was written‚ much like any other form of written media. The reactions and actions taken by Medea are not common for a time period like our own. At this day and age we’ve learned how to react without killing someone‚ and how to not plot our revenge in such a spiteful way. Medea doesn’t distinguish right from wrong in her actions‚ heart of head applies perfectly to her and her reactions. Today we
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