The type of stage invented by the Greeks and known for its amazing acoustics.
What is an AMPHITHEATRE?
100
The rolling stages of Medieval England.
What are PAGEANT WAGONS?
100
The length of time Commedia actors study their parts.
What is THEIR ENTIRE LIVES?
100
The type of stage present in all Early Modern Playhouses.
What is THRUST?
100
The type of stage pioneered by Restoration theatre companies.
What is PROSCENIUM?
200
Romans needed this to attend a play.
What is GRAVITAS or CITIZENSHIP?
200
The subject matter of all Medieval plays.
What is CHRISTIANITY?
200
What Commedia audiences needed to see a play.
What is MONEY?
200
The number of acts in an Early Modern play.
What is FIVE?
200
Audiences need this in order to see Restoration plays.
What is FRENCH CITIZENSHIP?
300
He wrote Oedipus the King, Oedipus Rex, and Antigone.
Who is SOPHOCLES?
300
The length of a cycle play.
What is ALL DAY or 18+ hours?
300
Most Commedia sets included this item.
What is A WHITE SHEET or A TRAVELLING TRUNK?
300
The most famous Early Modern dramatist.
Who is SHAKESPEARE?
300
The French Shakespeare.
Who is MOLIERE?
400
He wrote PSEUDOLUS, the inspiration for A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM.
Who is PLAUTUS?
400
The set piece that looked like the mouth of a great beast.
What is a HELLMOUTH?
400
A braggart coward who claims to kill many, but is afraid of a mouse.
Who is CAPITANO?
400
The names of both the trapdoors in an Early Modern theatre.
What are the HEAVENS, and the TRAP?
400
The dramatist who wrote The Importance of Being Earnest.
Who is OSCAR WILDE?
500
The name of a Greek set piece, and its function.
What is PERIAKTOI (wooden prisms that turned to present different scenes), ECCYCLEMA (wooden platform to roll out dead bodies), or MACCHINA (lower gods and goddess onto the stage).
500
The difference between LITURGICAL and VERNACULAR drama.
What is INSIDE vs. OUTSIDE of the church, or PERFORMED BY CHURCH OFFICIALS vs. PERFORMED BY GUILDSMEN.
500
The only characters who do NOT wear masks (HINT: there are THREE).
Who are the MALE LOVERS, the FEMALE LOVERS, and COLOMBINA.
500
The type of company Shakespeare and other Early Modern actors belonged to, where ever actor owned a portion of the company.
What are SHARERS' COMPANIES?
500
The rules enforced by Cardinal Richelieu, which included:
1) Plays must have five acts
2) Tragedy is for nobles; Comedy is for middle and lower classes
3) Drama should teach and please
4) Plays must observe the Aristotelian Unities