WELCOME

Grade 9
OPENING
PRAYER
WELCOME
Grade 9
Sir Kent Manalili
 HISTORY OF THE
THEATRICAL FORMS
AND THEIR
EVOLUTION
GREEK THEATRE
 THE THREE WELL-KNOWN GREEK TRAGEDY PLAYWRIGHTS

Sophocles
- born in Colonus near Athens, Greece in 496 B.C.E.,
he was an Ancient Greek playwright.
- His father, Sophilus, was a wealthy member of the ‘Deme’
rural society. Sophocles was highly educated.

“Always desire to learn something useful”.

“One word free us of all weight and pain in

life that word is LOVE”
 THE THREE WELL-KNOWN GREEK TRAGEDY PLAYWRIGHTS

Euripides
- born in Salamis, Greece in 480 B.C.E., he was a
tragedian of classical Athens.
- He is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom
any plays have survived in full.
- He became “the most tragic of poets”

“Experience travel – these are

as education in themselves”.
 THE THREE WELL-KNOWN GREEK TRAGEDY PLAYWRIGHTS

Aeschylus
- born in Eleusis, Greece (suburban town and municipality
in West Attica in Greece) in 524 B.C.E.
- He was likely the first dramatist to present plays as a
trilogy.

“Memory is the mother of all wisdom”.

THE GREEK THEATRE
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GREEK THEATER MASK
- All of the actors and playwrights were
men. Women were not allowed to
participate.
- The actors played multiple roles, so mask
was used to show the change in
character or mood.
- If playing female role need for female
appearance (wore the prosterneda before
the chest and the progastrida before the
belly)
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DOCTOR FAUSTUS BY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
• The concept of decorum (meaning right and proper audience behavior)
was applied in this period which means classical concepts and
appropriate social behavior must be observed.
• This period officially established just two types of plays, tragedy and
comedy.
• They never mixed these together, and the restriction led to the use of the
now well- known pair of happy and sad masks that symbolize the
theatrical arts.
• Tragedies – portrayed the complex and fateful lives of the upper classes
and royals.
• Comedies – which were either public discourse or comedies of manners,
tended to focus on the lower ranks of society.
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listening.
God Bless!
Keep Safe always!