Written by Shakespeare that had the characters: Hermia, Helena, Lysander, and Demetrius
What is Midsummer Nights Dream?
100
Allegories with a moral
What are Morality plays?
200
What were Roman plays imitated from?
Greek plays.
200
Why were stages and scenery angled and racked?
It was to increase illusion and create perspective.
200
When the Renaissance occurred (time period)
What is 14oo-16oo?
200
A synopsis of the play Jacinto Benavente
What is Bonds of Interest?
200
Men that played as women in theatre/ performances
What is Histriones?
300
Did they use scripts?
No, they mostly improvised.
300
Whats the main reason why the staging was so popular?
The staging used perspective architecture and culture.
300
Whats another name for the "slapstick"?
Battacio or Battachio.
300
A satirical play by Italian Renaissance philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli.
What is La Mandragola?
300
Religious multiple stages
What are Cycle Mystery stages?
400
What was the most popular type of theatre?
Comedia dell arte.
400
How were the theaters painted?
They were painted flat wings and shutters.
400
Were Roman plays performed in the public?
Never performed in public.
400
About how one character would beat another with a prop that was called a battachio/ battacio
What is Slapstick?
400
Writer of pastrals/ last poet of the Renaissance.
What is Tasso?
500
What are the kind of religious plays did they perform?
Mystery and Miracle plays.
500
Encouraged people to use experimentation's and observations to solve earthly problems, as a result; many Renaissance intellectuals focused on trying to define and understand the laws of nature and the physical world.
What is Humanism?
500
How did the characters work in Comedia dell arte?
Masters and the servants, at least 2 servants, 1 smart and 1 dumb.
500
By Giangiorgio Trissino based on a story about the carthaginian wars by the Roman historian Liuy and employing the dramatic techniques of Sophocies and Euripicles.
What is Sofonisba?
500
The concept that government is ruled by the richer.