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• giuseppe verdi - at 10 taught to play piano by a aorganist of a church in busetto
• giuseppe verdi most famous play was " Va pensiero"
• giuseppe was famous for his freedom, heroism, love, and liberty
• giacomo puccini - music is emotional, sentimental, and well crafted
• giacomo puccini famous play was "la boheme"
• Ricard Wagner - known for his long operas
• lohengrin is a fairy tale
• bridal chorus - wedding song
• sophocles - greatest playwright of greek tragedy
• sophocles actors were aesychlus and eurpides
• sophocles had 123 plays and only 7 had complete form
• oedipus - king of thebes
• creon - brother in law of oedipus
• eurydice - creon's wife
• apollo - god of oracle of delphi
• king laius - father of oedipus
• jocasta - mother and wife of oedipus
• polyrices and etecies - sons of oedipus
• tiresias - blind prophet
• polybus - oedipus foster father
• merope - foster mother
• antigone and ismene - daughters of oedipus
• haemon - antigone's lover
• sphinx - half human half lion that symbolises plague and misfortune
• mask - allows audience to focus on the character rather than looking at the physical features
• women wear draped robes while the men wear loose floor and length tunic with pleated floors
• the facade of parthenon - stage and 5 stairs
• the design of the parthenon was ionic
• william shakespeare - english poet and playwright
• anne hathaway had three children susanna, hamnet, judith
• william shakespeare was born and brought up in stratford-upon-avon
• william shakespeare was branded as "bard of avon"
• william shakespeare had 38 plays, 154 poems, 2 narrative poems
• romeo - sole heir
• lord montague - romeo's father
• lady montague - romeo's mother
• benvolio - cousin
• balthasar - faithful servant
• abraham - servant
• juliet - heir of the capulet family