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Where Am I?
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Dance with the Renaissance
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100
This is an Italian word for a scenario that moves the play forward.
What is a lazzi.
100
What was the yearly festival that happened in March in Ancient Greece?
What is City Dionysia
100
Give an example of the Honor Code in Lope De Vega's Fuente Ovejuna.
What is get creative people.
100
This sexy stud and prolific playwright is the author of Fuente Ovejuna.
What is Lope de Vega
100
Name the year of the Fall of Rome (Western Europe)
What is 476 AD
200
Who wrote Dulcitius?
What is Hrosvitha the Nun
200
Louis XIV took over the arts and put all theatrical performances in this place, doing away with popular theatre while elevating the artform as a whole. What was this place?
What is the Comedie Francaise
200
This controversial French play by Pierre Corneille caused a stir when it violated Neoclassical rules, such as decorum.
What is Le Cid
200
Describe the two different business models of Renaissance English theatres
What are 1. A corporate model: run like a business, owned by one man, actors are controlled by debt (Henslowe) 2. A sharing company: responsibilities and money shared, co-owned (Burbage)
200
This Italian Performance served as a separation between the acts of a play.
What is an Intermezzi
300
What are the 5 Neoclassical Rules of Drama (according to Horace)?
What is 1. Verisimilitude 2. Decorum 3. Purity of Genre 4. The Unities 5. 5 Acts
300
What are the three Italian theatre buildings?
What is 1. Olimpico 2. Farnese 3. Sabbionetta
300
Name the first three British plays.
What are 1. Ralph Roister Doister 2. Gammar Gurton's Needle 3. Gorboduc
300
Name the event that ushered in the Italian Renaissance AND the year in which it happened.
What is the Fall of Constantinople in 1454
300
What are auto sacramentales and who was known for writing them?
What are Spanish religious one acts and Calderon de la Barca
400
I'm a play influenced by Doric Mimes, Mummings and the Kornoi. What kind of play am I?
What is Greek Comedy
400
What time period contains these theatrical conventions: real and unreal coexist, platea and ritual dramas?
What is The Middle Ages
400
This New Comedy play written by Menander was influential for the Renaissance:
What is The Grouch
400
Why was England so late in experiencing the Renaissance?
What is being an island in the middle of the ocean far away from anything and anyone #foreveralone
400
Name 3 of the 5 English University Wits
Who are 1. Heywood 2. Lyly 3. Greene 4. Kyd 5. Marlowe BONUS. Lynne Greeley
500
Who was the galan in Spanish Drama?
What is the young male lover
500
The following theatrical characteristics place us in what country: 1. Open air buildings, more developed public theatre 2. No Italianate Staging 3. Facades
What is Spain
500
While no specific plays exist, name the three forms of Medieval Drama.
What are 1. Latin Music Drama 2. Vernacular Religious Drama 3. Vernacular Secular Drama
500
Name at least four changes in history that contributed to the transition into the Renaissance.
What are 1. the decline of feudalism 2. emphasis on agriculture decreases 3. social shift 4. change of time and space 5. shift in language 6. change in religion
500
I'm standing under the first proscenium arch in Italy. What theatre am I in?
What is the Teatro Farnese at Parma
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