I wrote that?
The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet
Who is William Shakespeare?
This title character is now synonymous with religious hypocrisy and con-artistry.
Who is Tartuffe?
Everyman
What is a Morality Play?
This Medieval 'portable' stages on wheels traveled with Cycle Plays from town to town.
What are Pageant Wagons?
Scripts with everyday, non-rhyming language, spoken like a conversation, is described as this type of text.
What is prose?
The Great Theatre of the World
Who is Calderon de la Barca?
Shakespeare's Moor of Venice.
Who is Othello?
This genre typically is comprised of 7 elements of comedy.
What is Farce?
The Puritans tore down all the Playhouses and executed the King of England, leaving England, Scotland, and Ireland to have this name of government to replace the monarchy.
What is the Commonwealth of England?
This is the term for a metered text developed in Elizabethan Drama that does not need to rhyme.
What is blank verse?
The Alchemist
Who is Ben Johnson?
This character is ordered by a judge to obey his wife and "shut the door" in a Medieval French Farce.
The Cobbler
This genre began in Italy in 1598 and incorporated music with 2 distinct styles of singing.
What is Opera?
In early music-dramas performed in Cathedrals, this was the open acting area where performers could move between the Mansions.
What is the Platea?
He was the first playwright to edit and publish a collection of his plays.
Who is Ben Johnson?
The Spanish Tragedy
Who is Thomas Kyd?
This is the only character who can accompany Everyman into the afterlife.
Who is Good Deeds?
Islamic Commemorative Drama.
What is Ta-ziyeh?
These "gags", or stock jokes, were added into a commedia dell'arte play or performance in order to ensure the comic action kept apace.
What are Lazzi?
This muslim text, which was originally written on bits of leather in the 7th century C.E., was a complete set of 114 chapters by the 9th century C.E.
What is the Qur'an?
The Servant of Two Masters
Who is Carlo Goldoni?
This supernatural character travels the universe for 24 years serving a Doctor in a Marlowe play.
Who is Mephistopheles?
Spanish spectacles depicting battles with the victorious Crusades.
What are Moros y Cristianos?
These Dutch Festivals raised the standards in playwriting through competitions sponsored by the Chambers of Rhetoric Societies.
What is Landjuweelen (LAWHNT-yu-vay-lehn)?
This phrase, translated to "The world is a stage", sums up the notion that theatre and actors selectively hide the mechanisms of dramatic function from the audience in the same way the social and political realms hide the way they negotiate behind closed doors.
What is Theatrum Mundi?