Factors of Greek theatre in detail

Thespian: Anyone related to drama and theatre, this is because one of the performances was called Thespis, so this evolved to the word thespian which relates to anyone involved in acting

Factors of Greek theatre that are in theatre these days:
Orchestra

Sceny: which is now known as scene, where they bring on and off pieces of scenery

Chorus

The form of the play/plot itself

Greek theatre was dominated by 5 playwrights, one would be Sophocles who created Oedipus rex, Euripides who developed a naturalistic and realistic piece of drama on stage and formalized conventions of theatre that we know now.

Aristotle, created the ethos, pathos, logos triangle

His formula for plots, for a ‘well made play’ (he said the Oedipus rex was a perfect example of this):

Exposition- exposing a situation or problem or conflict, an occurrence/happening  (in Oedipus rex, the king and queen don't want the child because of the prophecy which was that the child would kill his father and marry the mother, the king asked the servant to kill the baby but the servant couldn't kill the baby so he sent him far away but a shepherd found the baby so gave the baby to different king and queen because they didn't have a child, once he grew up he thought that he was the biological son so he runs away and couldn’t adapt to this environment as he was used to being treated like a prince and ended up killing someone during his journey)  
Inciting incident 
Rising action 
Climax 
Denovement 




Thespian: anyone related to drama and theatre, this is because on of the performances was called Thespis, so this evolved to the word thespian which relates to anyone involved in acting

Orchestra

Sceny: which is now known as scene, where they bring on and off pieces of scenery 

Chorus  

The form of the play/plot itself

Greek theatre was dominated by 5 playwrights, one would be Sophocles who created Oedipus rex, Euripides who developed a naturalistic and realistic piece of drama on stage and formalized conventions of theatre that we know now. 

Aristotle, created the ethos, pathos, logos triangle 
His formula for plots, for a ‘well made play’ (he said the Oedipus rex was a perfect example of this): 
Exposition- exposing a situation or problem or conflict, an occurrence/happening  (in Oedipus rex, the king and queen don't want the child because of the prophecy which was that the child would kill his father and marry the mother, the king asked the servant to kill the baby but the servant couldn't kill the baby so he sent him far away but a shepherd found the baby so gave the baby to different king and queen because they didn't have a child, once he grew up he thought that he was the biological son so he runs away and couldn’t adapt to this environment as he was used to being treated like a prince and ended up killing someone during his journey)   
Inciting incident 
Rising action 
Climax 
Denovement 




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