LESSON 1: (GREEK DRAMATICS)

• GREEK DRAMATICS

  AESCHYLUS

  SOPHOCLES

  WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

  BERTOLT BRECHT
• AESCHYLUS - Greek poet, dramatis, and author of about 90 plays, of which seven complete tragedies still survive.
• Aeschylus - The first playwright of Athenian drama, Aeschylus turned the dithyramb, (means choric rhyme) into drama.
• Aeschylus turned the dithyramb, (means choric rhyme) into drama.
• Aeschylus - He added a second actor (antagonist) to interact with the (main character) protagonist.
• Aeschylus - Oresteia
• SOPHOCLES - Greek poet, dramatist, and author of about 123 plays of which seven complete tragedies survive.
• Sophocles - Modified contemporary dramatic form and extended the range of emotion that could be portrayed in plays.
• EURIPIDES - Greek poet, dramatist, and author of about 92 plays.
• Euripides - His plays were less grandiose than those of Sophocles and Aeschylus, and contemporaries regarded him inferior. 
• WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE - The greatest English poet and playwright had his greatest works in drama.
• WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE - He is the greatest playwright of Elizabethan England in the age of renaissance.
• BERTOLT BRECHT - German poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer whose epics departed from the conventions of forum for socialism.