This disease effected life and culture throughout Europe beginning in the 14th century?
What is the Black Death?
100
This was the largest theatre festival in Ancient Greece:
What is the City Dionysia?
100
We get our modern theatre term "vom" (the entrance and exit walkways in the theater) from this Roman theatre term:
What is Vomitorium?
100
This is the only "blessing" which remains at the end of "Everyman":
What is Good Deeds?
100
India developed this social system around 1000BCE (you were born and died into a social class):
What is the caste system?
200
This form of Japanese drama (largely for the upper-class) is rooted in Zen Buddhism and is sometimes called "the art of walking":
What is Noh?
200
These were improvised stories sung by a choral leader with a traditional refrain sung by a chorus of 50:
What are dithyrambs?
200
This organization was formed to negotiate for and protect the rights of actors and other performers (but not mimes) during the reign of Alexander the Great:
What is the Artists of Dionysus?
200
"Thyestes" was written by Seneca, whose work influenced this Renaissance playwright:
Who is Shakespeare?
200
The terms for city-state and household in Ancient Greece:
What are polis and oikos?
300
In Indonesia, this word means "theatre":
What is wayang?
300
In Greek Old Comedy, this was a direct-address choral ode in which the chorus either discusses a political situation or praises the author and pleads for the audience's favor:
What is a parabasis?
300
The first introduction of character "types" (i.e. old man, young woman, etc.) occurred during this era of Greek Comedy:
What is Greek New Comedy?
300
This is the "happy idea" in "The Clouds"
What is if Strepsiades can learn Sophocles' arguments, he will never have to pay his creditors?
300
The oldest living male in a Roman family (who controlled all the property, money, and power):
What is the paterfamilias?
400
This performance trope (meaning "Whom do you seek?") was added to Easter services around 925 C.E.:
What is Quem quaeritis?
400
This is both a location in Ancient Greek theaters where the Chorus enters AND the section of all Greek tragedies in which the Chorus enters:
What is the parados?
400
This is the term for the epic water battles in Roman popular entertainment:
What is naumachia?
400
"The Bacchae" is typical of Euripides' work because it:
What is mixes comedy and tragedy?
400
This Greek playwright is considered to be the most "modern" of all the Greek tragedians:
Who is Euripides?
500
This Passion Play tells the story of the life and death of Osiris. It was performed at the most sacred spot in Egypt:
What is the Abydos Passion Play?
500
This is a low wheeled cart used to reveal characters who have died offstage in Greek tragedies:
What is an ekkyklema?
500
This playwright from Greek New Comedy had his work adapted by the Romans more than any other writer except for Homer:
Who is Menander?
500
This Roman Comic playwright wasn't as popular in Rome, but his works laid the foundation for the Comedy of Manners...and he may have been the first recorded black playwright:
Who is Terence?
500
Constantine rebuilt Byzantium. These are the other names by which that city was known (must name at least 2):