Weeks 1
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was the first to use this theatrical term.
What is Dramaturg/Dramaturgy?
This is the Mexican nun who wrote plays during the time of the Spanish colonization of the "New World."
Who is Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz?
These made their debut in England during Restoration theatre.
Who are actresses/female actors?
This type of French performance was done at street fairs to invite people into theatres or to view various performances.
What is parade?
This is Japanese puppet theatre.
What is Bunraku?
This is the study of historical writing.
What is Historiography?
This is who all of the townspeople blame for the revolt and death of the abuser in Lope de Vega's play in the Spanish Golden Age.
Who is Fuenteovejuna?
This is the problem Horner claims to have in William Wycherley's play The Country Wife.
What is impotence?
This type of research document will likely be your most common research source for your research papers.
What is a secondary source?
This is the number of musicians in traditional Bunraku performances.
What is one/1?
This term is used to indicate words as actions.
What is Performativity?
This is the third Neoclassical unity, together with unities of time and action.
What is unity of place?
This is the first known professional female playwright.
Who was Aphra Behn?
This is the type of French musical drama done in imitation of but not exactly akin to its Italian cousin.
What is opera comique?
This is the number of characters an individual chanter vocalizes during Bunraku performances.
What is all of them?
This script analysis method begins with an inciting incident, heightens with a climax, and ends with a denouement.
What is Freytag's Pyramid?
This is the pen name for the playwright of Tartuffe.
Who was Moliere?
This person was "restored" to the English throne in 1660, prompting the name for the time period.
Who was King Charles II?
This is where characters may appear and disappear in Kabuki.
What is a walkway/hanamachi?
This is what the puppeteer mid-career controls in Bunraku performances.
What is the left hand of the puppet?
This is an Italian form of physical, farcical comedy.
What is Commedia dell'Arte?
This is the male that Phedre falsely accuses of rape in Jean Racine's play.
Who is Hippolytus?
This is the festival during which Aphra Behn's play The Rover is set.
What is Carnivale?
This is the traditional length of a Kabuki performance.
This is an element that differs in French opera versus Italian opera.
What is spoken dialogue?