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Week 5
TOPIC: DRAMATIST/PLAYWRIGHTS:
- Dramatists/ playwrights are the people that write plays.
- They are writers of plays /drama for stage, television, or radio presentation.
CATEGORIES OF DRAMATIST/PLAWRIGHT:
The three (3) categories Dramatists namely:
- Classical/universal dramatist.
- Modern dramatist
- Contemporary dramatist.
CLASSICAL OR UNIVERSAL DRAMATISTS:
These are the ancient Greek Dramatists;
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes and Euripides are the founding fathers of drama as we know it today.
Their established form of drama is the Authority that is still followed.
The dramas were mostly tragedy, comedy, though, a lot of myth and history was also covered. Tragedy means drama ending unhappily or sadly.
Tragedy means drama ending unhappily or sadly. The most popular being
AESCHYLUS (525? – 456BC), Greek dramatist, the earliest of the Greek tragic poets of Athens. As the predecessor of Sophocles and Euripides, he is called the father of Greek tragedy. Aeschylus is said to have written about 90plays. But only80 of these
Plays is known. Aeschylus is called the father of Greek tragedies. One of his specialties was trilogies, or group of three plays, usually bound together by a common theme.
LIFE HISTORY
- He was born in Eleusis, near Athens.
- His father was a member of the Athenian nobility.
- He fought successfully against the Persian Armies at the battle of Marathon in 490 BC.
- He also fought in 480Bc at the battle of Salamis
- He died at Gela.
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