Cycle Plays and Staging
The master copy of a guild's script
What is the Register?
What are examples of allegorical characters in a morality play?
What is "Sin" "Death" "Joy" "Happiness" "Knowledge" "Fear" "Pain" etc. ?
In what medieval tradition, do Wilson and Goldfarb refer to as having the "seeds of farce"?
What is the Feast of Fools?
The nun who lived in the Benedictine convent of Gandersheim in the 10th century
Who is Hrosvitha?
Where was Shakespeare born and raised?
Where is Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire?
Person in charge of special effects, particularly for medieval cycle plays
Who is the Master of Secrets?
"A didactic, allegorical drama whose character lies in the exposition of a thesis and aims to ethically instruct the audience"
What is "morality play"?
In France, a first cousin to native farce was the __________. In French, sot means "stupid," "foolish," or "absurd."
What is the sottie?
The last monarch of the House of Tudor, also known as "The Virgin Queen"
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
Who is the biblical woman that encounters Christ on his way to Calvary and wipes the sweat and blood off his face with her handkerchief?
Who is Saint Veronica?
Painted on the roofs of Renaissance private playhouses to simulate the night sky or heaven.
What are murals?
A period of time in which self-fashioning and furthering of identity were explored and encouraged like never before
What is "the Renaissance"?
Born in 1572. As a playwright, literary critic, poet, and actor, _____ was one of the first writers in England to champion the neoclassical principles, and in his own work he wanted to prove that one could please the public by following these rules.
Who was Ben Jonson?
The Roman playwright Hrosvitha drew inspiration from
Who is Terence?
What is one of the three Shakespeare plays that features an allusion of St. Veronica?
What is Othello? What is Henry VI? What is Hamlet?
Two types of permanent playhouses in Renaissance England
What are Public and Private?
The primary concern in Medieval behavior, community, and external actions towards others.
What is "Religion"? or What is "Morality"?
In such plays as Every Man in His Humour (1598), The Alchemist (1610), and Volpone (1606), Jonson developed a "comedy of _________" in which each principal character had an excess of one trait, or "_________."
The country where women first appeared onstage professionally
Where is Spain?
From Othello, Iago's characteristics can be related to which common character from Morality Plays?
Who is Vice?
Medieval guild most likely to produce a play based on Noah and his Ark
What are Shipbuilders? (Other relevant answers may be qualified)
The decline of an economy based on the feudal system, growth of cities, rise of royalty, and challenges to Church authority.
What is "Factors that contributed to the Renaissance"?
Jonson may have intended his play, The Alchemist, to open at the Blackfriars playhouse in the autumn of 1610, but this intention was frustrated by an epidemic of ________ that kept theatres closed until the end of November.
What is plague?
An open air facility along the River Thames where men and women danced, sang, and spoke while watching bear-baiting, bull-baiting and other "animal sports" in a choreographed, theatrical event
What is The Beargarden (or Bear Pit)?
Which play does Shakespeare alludes to Herod, from the Townley and Chester cycles?
What is Richard III?