The actors were so far away from the audience that without the aid of exaggerated costumes and masks, they would be difficult to see.
The masks were made of linen or cork, so none have survived. Tragic masks carried mournful or pained expressions, while comic masks were smiling or leering. The shape of the mask amplified the actor's voice, making his words easier for the audience to hear
- Comedy
The masks were made of linen or cork, so none have survived. Tragic masks carried mournful or pained expressions, while comic masks were smiling or leering. The shape of the mask amplified the actor's voice, making his words easier for the audience to hear
- Comedy
A comedy contained scenes filled with slapstick situations and crude humor. It is an entertainment consisting of jokes and satire, intended to make audience laugh.Playwrights often made fun of politics and respected people and ideas of the time.
- Dramatists
- Aristophanes
- wrote the first great comedies including The Birds and Lysistrata
- Lysistrata portrayed the women of Athens forcing their husbands to end the Peloponnesian War
- Menander
- wrote more than a hundred comedies.
- Aspis ("The Shield"; about half) is one of his famous works.
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