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The Breakup Of Ancient Greek Drama And The Reorganization Of The Drama Elements In The Renaissance Period

Posted on:2008-06-06Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:F J ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360242469354Subject:Drama
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Drama is the spirit of humanity and art, on some level, drama can be taken as the emergence of the mature stage of a civilization. The formation and development of drama need a mature cultural background. However, the maturation of a civilization does not fully depend on a successive history; it mainly depends on the material and spiritual pursuit of the human society, as well as the possession of the cognitive ability. It can be said that, the development of performing art is not completely follow a successive sequence, or from lower culture to higher culture as the Darwin law. The demise of the traditional arts and disruption will occur from time to time. It is a great significance to extend our understanding of the development of human civilization from this special cultural phenomenon, since performing art provides us a new perspective of the inspection.This paper examines the development of the European performing art forms, the disappearance and interruption of tradition. We define this phenomenon as the "European theater fault" phenomenon. This "fault" we present here has two meanings: first, the ancient Greek drama breakup and extinction is the beginning of the European performing art. It is the interruption in the locality transformation of European performing art. Secondly, as the represent the classical traditions of performing art the ancient Greek drama were interrupted, it is the timing consequent fault in the European performing art heritage. In the medieval period of the tenth century, the religionized performance was reborn in the complex Christian ceremonies. Prior to this is nearly 500 years of the window period European performing art history, it can be said that despite the birth of the medieval religious performance and ancient Greek drama in the forms of art retain certain commonalities, there is no direct relationship between the succession. Renaissance drama emerged directly from in the medieval religious performance, meanwhile it learned from the classical drama for the maternal nutrient and certain genetic factors. During this period, the scientific spirit and rational consciousness prompted drama to have profound changes in its concept. The distinction between types of performing art became increasingly clear. As elements of the ancient Greek performing art, language, music and dance gradually separated, expanded independently and developed their forms into drama, opera and ballet, the three major styles of modern performing art. The elements of performing art recomposed and evolved into its modern restructure.This paper is to study the different stages of the form of the European theater art, and simplified the detailed analysis of the other research context. The purpose of this is to approach to the truth of the fault in the history of performing art from a wider range of the multi-dimensional perspective, which is normally ignored in most research.According to the information currently available to the author, "the European theater fault" phenomenon has not yet been clearly defined in the academic community. But some foreign medieval drama researchers also think that the medieval drama, Greek and Roman tragedy and comedy are not related at all. This is evidence that there is not such a continuous history of the European performing art.The study is a brave conjecture and carefully verified. Meanwhile we tried to this investigation of the performing art in following methods: collating the literature and the actual situation, analysis case study and generally rules, combining traditional and new methods of social science. In this paper, the authors attempt to do rigorous exposition, a compact, elegant writing, have certain academic and readability.
Keywords/Search Tags:Fault, Breakup, Elements of performing art, Reorganization
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