satyr playとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From satyr +‎ play.

名詞

satyr play (plural satyr plays)

1. (theater, historical) In ancient Greece, a genre of play featuring comedic dialogue and situations involving a chorus of satyrs, and performed following a trilogy of tragedies.
   • 1913, Gilbert Murray, “III.”, in Euripides and His Age, page 67:

     Aeschylus had also made the whole performance much longer and more impressive: he composed three continuous tragedies forming a single whole and followed by the strange performance called a Satyr-play.

   • 2007, Hugh Denard, “Lost theatre and performance traditions in Greece and Italy”, in Marianne McDonald, J. Michael Walton, editors, The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 142:

     By the turn of the century, both satyrs and human dancers were appearing together on vases with female companions in Dionysian contexts and, with the invention of the satyr play, the vases began explicitly to depict humans costumed as satyrs, rather than the mythical beasts themselves.

同意語

• (genre of play): satyric play