epitasisn.

/ɛˈpɪtəsɪs/

Forms: Also 1500s epitazis.

Etymology: modern Latin, < Greek ἐπίτασις, < ἐπιτείνειν to intensify, < ἐπί upon + τείνειν to stretch.

‘That part of a play where the plot thickens’ (Liddell and Scott). The Alexandrian grammarians regarded a dramatic work as consisting of three parts, the protasis or introduction, the epitasis, in which the action begins, and the catastrophe. Cf. catastasis n. and quots. under that word.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > parts of ancient Greek play

protasisa1568

catastrophe1579

epitasis1589

antistrophea1620

catastasis1656

episode1678

exode1764

agon1847

stichomythia1861

1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. E4^v To make a more pleasing Epitazis, it fell out amongst them thus.

a1626 L. Andrewes Serm. (1856) I. 95 Being in the theatre all the while from the epitasis to the very catastrophe.

1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy II. v. 44 This matter..may make no uninteresting under-plot in the epitasis and working up of this drama.

1815 ‘J. Mathers’ Hist. Mr. John Decastro & Brother Bat I. 259 The epitasis thereof, that is to say, the bustle, comes next.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	epitasis
释义	epitasisn. /ɛˈpɪtəsɪs/ Forms: Also 1500s epitazis. Etymology: modern Latin, < Greek ἐπίτασις, < ἐπιτείνειν to intensify, < ἐπί upon + τείνειν to stretch. ‘That part of a play where the plot thickens’ (Liddell and Scott). The Alexandrian grammarians regarded a dramatic work as consisting of three parts, the protasis or introduction, the epitasis, in which the action begins, and the catastrophe. Cf. catastasis n. and quots. under that word. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > parts of ancient Greek play protasisa1568 catastrophe1579 epitasis1589 antistrophea1620 catastasis1656 episode1678 exode1764 agon1847 stichomythia1861 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. E4^v To make a more pleasing Epitazis, it fell out amongst them thus. a1626 L. Andrewes Serm. (1856) I. 95 Being in the theatre all the while from the epitasis to the very catastrophe. 1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy II. v. 44 This matter..may make no uninteresting under-plot in the epitasis and working up of this drama. 1815 ‘J. Mathers’ Hist. Mr. John Decastro & Brother Bat I. 259 The epitasis thereof, that is to say, the bustle, comes next. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1589
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