Rome vs Greece
This cultural group valued tragedies over comedies.
Who were the Greeks?
What are comedies?
___________ were used in by actors Roman theatre, just as they were in Greece.
What are masks?
True or False: Roman playwrights captured the many changes that occurred during the height of the Roman empire
True
This cultural group valued comedies over tragedies.
Who were the Romans?
Roman stages were made out of _________.
What is wood?
In Ancient Greece, theatre started as a way to praise the god Dionysus. In Ancient Rome, the god that was praised at the festivals was ___________.
Who was Jupiter?
He wrote “The Comedy of Errors” which was later adapted by William Shakespeare.
Who was Plautus?
This group of people frowned upon the arts so the audience was typically lower class
Who were aristocrats?
Roman stages had to be __________ so that they could be packed up and moved quickly.
What is portable?
True or False: After the fall of the Roman Empire, the Catholic Church banned theatre because it had become so vulgar and violent.
True.
He was known as the “Father of Roman Poetry” and worked to translate Greek plays from Greek into Latin therefore making these stories from Ancient Greece available to Roman citizens.
Greek theatre placed emphasis on this aspect of theatre based on Aristotle's Poetics.
What is plot?
Roman stages were the first to use _____________.
What are curtains?
True or False: Roman plays kept the original Greek gods that were part of the original Greek plays.
False
He wrote comedies about love, relationships, and social class.
Who was Terence?
Roman theatre placed emphasis on this aspect of theatre based on Aristotle's Poetics.
What is spectacle?
A person or group hired to clap for a performance.
What is a "claque"?
True or False: Theatre continued to spread throughout India and the Orient after the fall of the Roman Empire.
True
He wrote the play “Phaedra”.
Who was Seneca?