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World Drama Exam 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Hamartia | missing the mark of moderate behaviour |
| Shinto | a japanese religion dating from the early 8th century and incorporating the worship of ancestors and nature spirits. also a belief in sacred power (kami) in both animate and inanimate things. |
| Allegory | a work (literary or visual) in which abstractions are personified / made concrete |
| Theos | god(s) |
| Dionysus | the god of grape harvest, winemaking, and wine, of fertility, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre. |
| Cosmology | branch of philosophy dealing with the origins and structure of the universe |
| Hubris | excessive pride, arrogance |
| Psychomachia | battle of spirits / "soul war" |
| Symbol | something that stands for something else, especially a material object that represents something invisible or abstract. |
| Kami | a divine being in the shinto religion |
| Sophocles | Greek philosopher, focuses on the individual. human relationships |
| Tragedy (Aristotelian def.) | human/ protagonist: neither good nor bad; arousal of pity and terror; recognition |
| Apollo | god of truth, healing, and the sun |
| Ritual | traditional pattern of actions |
| Dialect | the art of investigating or disccussing the truth of opinions |
| Sacrament | an outward visible sign of and inward and invisible grace |
| Penance/Confession | confession of sins and demonstration of true sorrow for sins |
| Anagnorsis | recognition, identification, discovery of identity, true character |
| Dramatic Irony | a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a characters words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character. audience knows but character does not |
| Buddhism | non-theistic, enlightenment, rejects concepts of permanence self or unchanging soul, there is NO self-independent of the universe |
| Maenads | female followers of Dionysus |
| Amphitheatre | semi-circular presentation space |
| Mystery Play | plays based on stories from the bible |
| Tone | one, written composition, is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience |
| Yugan | an awareness of the universe that triggers emotional responses too deep and mysterious for words |
| Sacrament (cf. Roman Catholic Church) | welcomed into the church; the ritual of the mass |
| Myth | 1. a traditional, typically ancient story, with supernatural beings, ancestors, and/or heros 2.serves as a fundamental type in the world view of a people 3. delineates the psychology, customs, ideals of a society |
| Humanism | world view that considers humans to be very important |
| Guilds | groups of artisans engaged in the same occupation from civic organization- spondered/ mounted medieval mystery plays |
| Noh | the oldest surviving form of Japanese theater. |
| Catharsis | release of tension, enlightenment, justice, reestablishment of moral/ universal order - equilibrium |
| Morality Play | plays dealing with moral life of individual christian |
| Momento Mori | reminder of death |
| Agon | contest/struggle |
| Archetype | A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth. |
| Protagonist | lead character of the play |
| Pageant Wagon | moveable stage on which a scene of the processional religious play was performed |
| Hierarchy | a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority |
| Shite | protagonist, grass cutter then atsumori |
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