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As Queen, I banned all plays from addressing religion.
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
Plautus' stock characters, a major influence of Commedia, was influenced by this ancient style of comedy.
What is Attelan Farce?
This play is known as the first comedy written in the English language, written by Nicolas Udall.
What is Ralph Roister Doister?
Perfected in Baroque theatre, the "God flying machine" allowed Godlike characters to literally fly in and save the day.
What is Deus Ex Machina?
In an argument famously known as "The Reckoning", this playwright was killed by being stabbed in his forehead, right above his eye.
Who was Christopher "Kit" Marlowe?
I am known as one of the greatest masters of comedy in western literature and am considered the creator of the Modern French Comedy.
Who is Moliére?
This was the term used for amateur troupes in order to delineate them from the professionals.
What is Commedia Erudita ?
This play is known as the first blank verse tragedy in the English language in the 1560s.
What is Gorbuduc, by Thomas Sackville & Thomas Norton.
The development of the Proscenium stage allowed this style of scenic design to expand to a focused illusion of depth utilizing the techniques of a vanishing point.
What is Perspective Scenery?
This French actor died from an illness seemingly acquired almost 30 years earlier when imprisoned overnight for unpaid tax debt. He died hours after portraying a hypochondriac onstage.
Who was Moliére?
I began my career as an Opera composer in Italy and then moved to France to compose for King Louis XIV.
Who is Jean-Baptiste Lully?
Of the four groups of Stock Characters, these were known as the comical servants.
Who are the Zanni?
This is the first Commedia company to be patronized by the Nobility in Milan, Italy in the late 1500s.
Who was I Gelosi ?
The first designer to coin the term "scenography", this Renaissance innovator described the art of theatrical design in his book Architettura.
Who was Sebastian Serlio?
The English Civil War in 1642 led this Monarch to have his head removed by a Puritan majority.
Who was King Charles I?
As an innovator in stage technology, I am known as the Baroque ‘stage illusionist’.
Who is Nicola Sabbatini?
Of the four groups of Stock Characters, these were known as the young lovers.
Who are the Innamorati?
Although short lived, this was the first permanent playhouse built in London, England in 1567.
What is the Red Lion?
This playwright, who wrote 15 plays in Italian and Hebrew, also wrote manuals for varying stage effects including How to Make Dolphins and Other Sea Monsters Appear to Spout Water While Swimming.
Who was Leone di Sommi?
This English genre of drama in the late 16th Century gave the people what they wanted, which was a stage full of dead bodies at the end and order restored.
What is Elizabethan Tragedies?
Even though I may be a Layperson in all-female Abbey in Germany in the 900's C.E., I still wrote 6 plays based on Terence’s comedies.
Who is Hrotsvitha?
This powerful leader outlawed Commedia in 1797 in both Italy and France so that no one could mock his regime.
Who was Napoleon?
In 1597, this was known as the first Opera ever performed in Florence, Italy.
What is Dafné?
This German spent 10 years experimenting with lighting effects with indoor theaters, developing innovations in dimming and color changing techniques.
Who was Joseph Furtenbauch?
Since the 10th Century in Baghdad, this commemorative performance of mourning recalls the violent 10 day battle in the year 680 where every Shi'ite except one boy was murdered, and every woman was captured by the Sunnis.
What is the Rawzat al-shuhada (The Garden of Martyrs)?