Greek & Roman Theatre
Thespis.
Who was the first actor?
France got most of its stories from here.
What are Greek and Latin tales?
Wu Priests, Cau Yu, and Fujian Xiqu.
Who are famous playwrights of Beijing Opera?
He was the most famous actor in sentimental comedy.
Who is David Garrick?
Germany's stock clown.
Who was Hanswurst?
In Volpone this animal is used to show trickery and cunning traits.
What is a fox?
Mixed comedy and tragedy, which kickstarted these movements in France, was done by this man.
Who is Victor Hugo?
The time period in which Melodrama began and remained popular.
This was believed to be the first theatre developed as part of the English Renaissance.
What is The Red Lion?
The actual "Golden Age" began during this century and led to the emergence of professional theatres and a new play form--chivalric plays.
What is the 16th Century?
This group was not allowed to act in Greek or Roman theatre.
Who are females?
The amount of rules that French Neoclassicals had.
What are 5?
This was one of the most famous plays of Beijing Opera.
What is story of White Snake?
This censored theatre and required everyone to have a license before performing a play.
What is the Licensing Act of 1737?
This prevented German theatre from taking off when other countries around them were.
What is the 30 years war?
Two types of plays during this time period.
What are comedy and revenge tragedy?
The time period that Realism and Naturalism kicked off.
What is the 19th Century?
A famous playwright of Melodrama.
Who is Rene-Charles Guilbert de Pitercourt, August Von Votzebuc or Jean-Jacques Rousseaus.
This war delayed the Renaissance from coming to England and its end sparked this new movement in theatre.
What is the 100 years war?
Comedia combined these two common elements.
What are comedy and tragedy?
Number of actors in a typical Greek production.
Heroism and sacrifice for plays were shown through this.
What are paintings?
Number of people featured in each opera performance.
What is tens of thousands?
Who are contemporary merchants and tradespeople?
A bet initiates the plot of this famous German play.
What is Faust?
A lot of blood and gore was a characteristic of this genre.
What is revenge tragedy?
Naturalism was created by this man who was inspired by the realism of Balzac and Flaubert.
Who is Emile Zola?
These were developed during the period of Melodramatic theatre and helped theatres with dramatic visual effects.
What are gas lights?
Early works were typically modeled after these two Roman playwrights.
Who are Plautus and Terrance?
These were one of the most important additions to Spanish theatre and were performed with elaborate two-story pageant wagons.
What are the Sacrementales?
A period in Ancient Greek comedy that came after old comedy and before new comedy. It often included stock characters and situations.
What is Middle Comedy?
Two famous playwrights.
Who are Racine and Cornelle?
What is the Sui Dynasty?
Teaching morals such as learning from the errors of others ad that people stray from good when presented with bad and tempting things.
What is the main focus or lesson of Sentimental Comedy?
German theatre began to develop.
When is mid 18th century?
Beauty, love, and virtue were common themes in this.
What are court masques?
An artistic movement with ordinary people that portrays accuracy and truthfulness.
What is realism?
Stock characters, exaggerated emotions, sensationalism, emphasis on moral lessons, and simplified plot lines are all examples of this.
Histories, Comedies, tragedies, and this were the primary categories of English Renaissance plays.
What are Romances?
This event had a large impact on the religious, allegorical plays in this time period.
What is The Spanish Inquisition?
This accompanied most Roman productions.
What is flute music?
What is Le Cid?
This symbolized characters, characteristics, roles, and fates.
What is make-up and head pieces?
Censorship prohibited the audience from expressing this while in the audience.
What are emotions?
Strum und Drang, Weimar, and Romanticism are considered these.
What are the three main movements of German theatre?
These were the characteristics that made the difference between these plays and those of Shakespeare.
What is more dark and complex?
This was the result of one of the first plays of this movement being performed.
What is a riot?
This war, along with social and political upheaval, led to a focus on human rights and emotional expression to kickstart Melodrama.
What is the French Revolution?
So that everyone could attend, theatres typically were this type of structure which also helped allow natural light in for the productions.
What are three-level gallery structures?
Seating arrangements in theatres were often based on this.
What is social hierarchy?