A Professional is Born
The Bard
Theatrum Mundi
When in Rome
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The English translation of the word "Renaissance."
What is Rebirth?
100
Before a "glorified prostitute" was allowed to do it thanks to Charles II (1661), a Shakespearean heroine would be played by this kind of person.
What is a boy?
100
The most important theatre in Elizabethan England.
What is the Globe Theatre?
100
"Comedy of Professional Artists," in Italian.
What is Commedia del'Arte?
100
All dramatic action must be believable in this neoclassical ideal.
What is verisimilitude?
200
Renaissance playwrights adapted subjects and themes from these ancient cultures.
What are the Greeks and Romans?
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They also mingled medieval and classical elements.
200
DAILY DOUBLE
The number of plays attributed to the prolific Mr. Shakespeare.
What is 38?
[According to the book. Most scholars agree between 37-40]
- Tragedies: 10–12 plays (e.g., Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet)
- Comedies: 14–17 plays (e.g., A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night)
- Histories: 10 plays based on English monarchs (e.g., Henry V, Richard III)
- Romances: 3–4 late plays (e.g., The Tempest
200
The signal Elzabethan theatres like The Globe used to let the public know a play was on that day.
What is a flag?
New plays were in constant demand. The bill often changed every day, and a company produced a new play about every 17 days.
200
Lovers, masters, and servants are 3 categories of [blank] characters.
What are stock characters?
Lovers were the most realistic characters.
200
During the Renaissance, you would find this type of performer only on a French stage.
What is an actress?
300
The type of drama banned by Henry II in France and Elizabeth I in England due to cultural upheaval.
What is religious drama?
The Protestant Reformation of the 16th Century swept the Western World, leading to wars and social upheaval. Outdoor religious drama was now forbidden by the same church and state that gave it birth.
300
Considered by many to be the most demanding role ever written for a tragic actor.
What is Hamlet?
300
These audience members would stand in "the yard" or "the pit" to watch a Shakespeare play.
What are Groundlings? (or "Penny-stinkers")
Groundlings is the namesake of a Los Angeles-based improv comedy school.
300
What actors would call a "script" during the Italian Renaissance.
What is a "scenario"?
Dialogue was improvised, but the action was fleshed out. The actors were the heart and soul of the performance, rather than the playwright.
300
Pierre Corneille’s The Cid was attacked (despite its popularity) because it failed to adhere to this vital neoclassical rule.
What is decorum?
400
Someone in this profession, under the dominant trade-guild system, was considered a "masterless man."
What is an actor?
To have legal status acting companies needed noble patronage. Every company had to have a license from the crown, and every play had to be approved by the crown.
400
The Act for which Hamlet is angry with his mother.
What is marrying his father's murderer, Claudius. (His uncle)
400
The beautifully-decorated roof above an Elizabethan stage.
What is the heavens?
400
This varied commedia type may take the form of both a clever servant and a stupid servant.
What is a zanni?
A zanni might carry a literal "slapstick" to make the sound effect of comic stage violence. Zanni also gives us our English word, "zany"!
400
This Seventeenth-Century French playwright set the standard for comedy with plays like Tartuffe.
Who is Molière?
500
The name of a renaissance acting company that advertises their noble patronage.
What is the Lord Admiral's Men? (Marlowe)
What is the Lord Chamberlain's Men? (Shakespeare)
What is the King's Men? (Shakespeare)
What is the Troupe du Roi? (Molière)
500
An Elizabethan playwright who is NOT William Shakespeare.
Who is Christopher Marlowe?
[Queer icon, alleged spy, and dead by 29]
Who is Ben Jonson?
[He said Shakespeare was "Not for an age, but for All Time."]
500
Dialogue in a Shakespeare play that establishes specific locations.
What is spoken decor?
BERNARDO: "But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,
Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill."
-Hamlet, Act I, Scene I
A tool shared with Greek and Roman theatre!
500
Venetian stages of the 17th century gave us this shape of theatre, which we have here at Olympic College.
What is the proscenium arch theatre?
In this "picture-frame stage," the floor of the stage raked upward toward the back—from this we derive our terms “upstage” and “downstage”.
500
The tragedy by Jean Racine that "perfected" every ideal of the Neoclassical Rules.
What is Phaedra?