Stage Structures
Neo Classicism inspired the Elizabethans to build their theaters like what culture
The Greeks (and Romans)
What was the dominant Religion of the Indian Sanskrit
Hinduism
Catharsis is known as the __________ of ______ and _____.
Purgation of pity and fear
Widley considered the greatest writer of Elizabethan drama?
William Shakespeare
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The Pit is where the ______________ watched plays for 1 penny at the Globe.
What was the dominant religions of Japanese Noh Theater
Shinto and Buddhism
Zeami wanted the Audience to feel these two things after experiencing a Japanese Noh play
Connected to nature and aware of the dangers of desire
Aristotle
Paper was expensive and it's easier to memorize!
For 3 penny's at the globe you would receive what?
A stool!
What was the dominant religion of the ancient greeks
Hellenism
Greek Theater
First person to step out of the Greek Chorus and "act out" a story?
Thespis
"To be or not to be that is the question" contains what kind of metric variation?
Feminine Ending
Actors crossed the ______________ bridge to enter onto the __________ in Japanese Noh
Hashigakari and Hon-Butai
What was the dominant religion and philosophical force that influenced Elizabethan Drama
Christianity and the Renaissance
Characters are deeply concerned with sin and the after life in this theater.
Elizabethan Drama
Bharata Muni wrote the _____________. The treatise on all the how and why of Indian Sanskrit theater
Natyashastra
"Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire"
contains what kind of metric variation?
Trochee
What force is beginning to be introduced into Theater going in Elizabethan Drama?
Remember, Shakespeare made his bones as a shareholder in the Chamberlain's Men, and audience members sit where they are willing and able to pay!
Capitalism!!
Describe the 3 step process on how theater tends to come about in many cultures (according to the functionalists)
Myth--->Ritual--->Theater
Myths explain natural phenomena
The stories of those myths are spread through rituals creating community and organizing religions
The rituals are co-opted by artists to explore stories of the human heart in theater
Shakespeare's history plays examine what it means to be a good __________ and a good __________.
Sovereign and Subject
Who were the two monarchs of england during Shakespeare's lifetime
Elizabeth II and James VI
"Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished:"
What two images make up an antithesis
pardon'd and punished