Definitions
Grab Bag
One shots
Dionysus' Wild Cards
Final Jeopardy
100
The caste system means that people ...?
Are classified by heredity, are forbidden to change occupations, and must sit by color-coded pillars at the theatre.
100
A surviving document called the ________ is translated as The Study of Theatre
Natyasastra
100
In order to keep the boundaries between the performers and audiences, authorities outlawed what in kabuki performances?
Female performers
100
What three things set Eastern theatre apart from Western theatre?
More reliance on dance, an emphasis on symbolism, and that they are total theatre forms
100
The play _______ is an example of the lawsuit-and-trial genre, was a popular Yuan dramam, portrays a Solomon-like judge, and is the basis of Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
The Circle of Chalk
200
The sheng, dan, jing, and chou were
Stock characters in Chinese drama
200
The fourteenth-century Japanese actor and playwright Kan'ami is significant because
he was attached to the shogun's court in Kyoto.
200
Although comic skits, puppet shows, and storytelling were popular during the Tang period, the emperors disliked formal theatre and refused to support actors.
False
200
Early theatre in India, China, and Japan reached a high point of artistic excellence when ______ and _______ were central in each culture.
Religion and philosophy
300
Dionysus Daily Double!
The idea that spectators surrender themselves to a dramatic situation corresponding to some powerful feeling that they themselves possess is called
300
Historically, actors who performed _____ were trained from childhood
Noh
300
The Yuan dynasty emperor being Mongol instead of Chinese arrested the development of Chinese theatre
False
300
Sanskrit dramas were not popular among the general public because ...?
The general public didn't know Sanskrit
400
Yūgen is
The mysterious inner heart or spirit behind outward form, the aim of nō performances, and philosophical and physical gracefulness.
400
Kyōgen plays are usually performed without costumes, masks, or wigs except when
Parodying noh
400
The revolving stage was developed in Japan.
True
400
The following Chinese play was one of the first known in the West because it was translated into French.
The Orphan of Chao
500
Kabuki male actors who play women's parts are called
onnagata
500
In bunraku, the puppets are manipulated by how many people?
Three
500
Bunraku plays became adapted as kabuki plays, and many actors became famous playing parts that puppets played originally.
True
500
Japanese theatre was influenced by ______ and ______
Shinto and Buddhism