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Romantic Comedy

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Comic drama where the plot focuses on young lovers who overcome difficulties and achieve a happy ending (usually marriage).

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Skene

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Canvas or wooden stage building where actors change.

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Satire/Satiric Comedy

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Uses derisive humor to ridicule human weakness and folly or attack political injustice.

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Deus Ex Machina

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Latin for “god out of the machine”.

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Burlesque

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Travesty of another play or a broadly humorous parody. In the U.S. it has come to represent a genre of ribald low humor combined with striptease.

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Masks

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Classically, these used to covers entire actor’s head that allowed far-away audience members to distinguish the conventional characters of tragedy and comedy.

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Tragedy

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Play that portrays serious conflict between humans and some superior overwhelming force. Typically ends sorrowfully, but is an outcome that seems inevitable.

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Hamartia

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Greek for error.

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Orchestra

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“The place for dancing” Circular performance space at the base of a horseshoe-shaped amphitheater.

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Low Comedy

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Style that arouses laughter through jokes, slapstick, sight gags, boisterous clowning and vulgar humor.

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Tragic Flaw

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A fatal weakness or a moral flaw in protagonist that ultimately brings him/her to a bad end.

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Slapstick Comedy

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A type of farce. Usually involves things such as pie-throwing, fisticuffs, violent actions.

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Hubris

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Overweening pride, outrageous behavior, or the insolence that leads to ruin, the antithesis of moderation.

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Comedy

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Work aimed at amusing an audience.

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Cothurni

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Thick-soled boots worn by tragic actors to make them appear taller than ordinary men.

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Peripeteia

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Reversal of fortune, a sudden change of circumstance affecting the protagonist.

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Farce

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A broadly humorous play in which the action is typically improbable and rapidly-moving.

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Catharsis (Katharsis)

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Feeling of emotional release or calm at the end of a tragedy.

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Recognition

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Occurs when ignorance gives way to knowledge, illusion to disillusion, in the plot of tragedy.

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High Comedy

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Evokes thoughtful laughter from an audience in response to play’s depiction of the pretense and hypocrisy of human behavior