Amazing Staging
This participatory commemorative drama for mass audiences culminates in the burning of an effigy
Ramnagar Ramlila
His writing is prescriptive in Ars Poetica, bonus points for his rules
Horace; 5 act structure, drama should entertain and educate at the same time, styles and genre should not mix, characters need to be recognizable
The type of play where a chorus / title are objects or animals
Greek comedies
Funded medieval European theatre in alignment with themselves
Trade Guilds
The process of writing about history
What is Historiography?
The bridge on a Noh Stage
What is hashigakari
A few of this Roman's surviving plays were saved and recited by this woman of the church in Saxony
Terence, Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim
Performances that releases constraints of religious and civil propriety; the mingling of the sacred with the profane
Carnival / Carnivalesque
Two religions that shaped the plots and themes of ancient Japanese drama
Shinto and Buddhism
Two prevalent devices of early oral cultures (and further) that provided the foundation for drama and theatre
Ritual & Storytelling
Where violent displays of spectacle were played out in ancient Rome
Amphitheaters, Circuses, Marketplace
His two most important aesthetics were monomane and yūgen (bonus for defining these)
Who is Zeami? (imitation of character / deep quiet beauty tinged with sadness)
This drama commemorates a story of triumph over religious persecution in the Book of Esther
Purim Shpil
These two terms represent the type of behavior expected from ancient Roman males (name and define them)
Pietas (respect for elders, loyalty, devotion) and Gravitas (dignity, seriousness)
An audience purged or cleansed from negative emotions displayed in a tragedy
What is Catharsis?
Originally performed outdoors at a crossroads, this commemorative mourning ritual would go on to be held in the round on a central platform
The Ta'ziyeh
The "father of tragedy"
Aeschylus, expanded number of characters and conflict
This play expresses the classic Buddhist concept of nondualism: opposites are equivalents; enemies indeed are friends.
Zeami's Atsumori
These two epics are sacred to Hinduism began as narrated but now have various written versions
Mahabharata and Ramayana
The encyclopedic work of all aspects of Sanskrit drama
What is the Natyasastra
two types of theatre we've covered that can be described as performed in "shrines"
Sanskrit drama and Noh
Japanese performance is said to originate in the shocking dance of the this goddess, a female Shinto deity.
Uzume
This play centers on class structure, romance, and politics
The Little Clay Cart by Shudraka
The concept that "nothing has meaning in drama except through rasa"
Rasa-bhava aesthetic theory (taste/state of being), the audience’s experience of the various states or moods arising from the actor’s embodiment of the character
Stage assistants in Noh dramas
Kōken