When it turned to our second class, we were given note in slides form. There are lots of inputs whether we already know or not. The note is about overview of the history of theater. Reading the note make me know that there are many categories for plays. Some of the theaters can be Greek Theater, Roman Theater, and Medieval Theater. Medieval Theater, may be it sounds weird, I also never know the name before I got the note. Medieval Theater is more to morally plays and most of them are Elizabethan Dramas. The dramas themselves come in many types. So that now we know literature comes in various types, not only in dramas, but also in other genre either poetry or novels form.
Oedipus Rex..
My children, generations of the living
In the line of Kadmos, nursed at his ancient hearth:
In supplication, with your boughs and garlands?
The breath of incense rises from the city
With a sound of prayer and lamentation.
- The Origin of Oedipus the King
My children, latest born to Cadmus old,
Why sit ye here as suppliants, in your hands
Branches of olive filleted with wool?
What means this reek of incense everywhere,
And everywhere laments and litanies?
-has been told in a story-telling fashion
In the line of Kadmos, nursed at his ancient hearth:
In supplication, with your boughs and garlands?
The breath of incense rises from the city
With a sound of prayer and lamentation.
- The Origin of Oedipus the King
My children, latest born to Cadmus old,
Why sit ye here as suppliants, in your hands
Branches of olive filleted with wool?
What means this reek of incense everywhere,
And everywhere laments and litanies?
-has been told in a story-telling fashion
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
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