Faustus
Amount of time Faustus gives to Lucifer in exchange for magical powers and knowledge
What is 24 years?
a performance space of Cornwall that had a fixed stage instead of moving wagon
What is a Cornish round?
first award-winning actor
Who is Thespis?
across the stage from Heaven, this fiery mansion gobbled up sinners
What is a Hell mouth?
Elizabethan poet and Shakepeare's most important contemporary, especially noted for use of dramatic blank verse
Who is Christopher Marlowe?
Character who reminds Faustus at the end of the play that it is not too late to repent.
Who is the Old Man?
a series of Medieval vernacular religious plays performed together
What is a cycle?
author of the Poetics
Who is Aristotle?
in England a guild might have rolled on of these through town, complete with scenery, a tiring house and actors
What is a pageant wagon?
playwright who strove to write comedies that were didactic and corrective, exaggerating the flaws in his characters to teach the audience
Who is Ben Jonson?
Magical power used by Faustus to scare the Pope
What is invisibility?
famous thrust stage used by Lord Chamberlain's Men
What is the Globe Theatre?
first recorded "play" in history
What is the Abydos Passion Play?
the remains of this theatre were discovered in 1989--but the real question: did they still smell as sweet?
What is the Rose?
early in his career he killed an actor in a duel--got off by benefit of clergy
Who is Ben Jonson?
famous leader that Faustus conjures at the request of the Emperor
Who is Alexander the Great?
an English playhouse with a surprisingly small stage, for it hosted enormous casts/first home of the Admiral's Men
What is the Rose?
name for ancient Greek actors?
What is hypokrites?
in 1596, Johannes de Witt drew a sketch of this English theatre
What is the Swan?
puts all important events on stage, uses Senecan devices such a ghosts, a one-person chorus, soliloquies, confidants, dvision inot acts
Who is Thomas Kyd?
Marlowe borrowed legends from this country when writing Doctor Faustus
What is Germany?
an English open-air playhouse that is the subject of the only contemporary image we have of a playhouse of this type
What is the Swan?
introduced the third actor
Who is Sophocles?
this circular embankment could have been up to 120 feet in diameter and was similar to structures built by the Vikings
What is a Cornish round?
admired for ability to illuminate evil by associating it with ordinary human beings
Who is John FOrd?