Greek Theatre History
Greek festivals typically lasted this many days.
5-6
The members of the audience who paid a penny to stand in the pit in Elizabethan playhouses.
groundlings
These plays were based on the legends of the saints.
Saint Plays
A Japanese form of drama that involves the use of puppets.
Bunraku
Three plays related by myth, theme, or character are called what?
A trilogy
Scenery developed as a result of these small huts where the actors changed in early Greece.
Skenes
Theater architecture, sets, colored lights, and equipment were developed during the Renaissance in this European country.
Italy
A question and answer song performed by monks in the middle ages.
Liturgical Dramas
The five main types of drama in this country today are: historical, spoken, song, dance, and ballet.
China
A platform in the middle ages where sait and mystery plays were performed.
mansion
Actors are called Thespians today. Why are they called that?
Thespis was the first actor. He left the chorus and began speaking individually on stage and became the first actor.
This came about in Renaissance Italy.
Opera
These plays were based on the last week of Jesus' life.
Passion Plays
Name one form of Japanese drama.
No, Bunraku, or Kabuki
A large, circular arena that was surrounded by tiers of seats in Greece, but found throughout the world today.
Amphitheater
Often called goat singers, they danced around an alter on which a goat was sacrificed.
Chorus
The most famous dramatist of all time.
William Shakespeare
Another word for a secular drama.
Folk Drama
This form of Japanese drama was only for people of nobility.
No
A speech delivered by an actor alone on stage that reveals their innermost thoughts.
Soliloquy
A crane-like hoist that permitted actors on stage to appear to be flying.
machina
This drama was nothing more than a weak imitation of Greek drama.
Roman drama
Stages on wheels.
Pageant Wagons
Peking Opera
The Greek word for tragedy.
Tragos