The first country to establish a centralized government (and the written word, and public monuments).
What is Egypt?
100
This is both an entrance for the Chorus in Ancient Greek theaters AND a part of the play in which the Chorus enters.
What is the Parados?
100
The oldest living male in a Roman family--controlled all property, money, and power
Who was the paterfamilias?
100
The bravado acting style in kabuki
What is aragato?
100
The disease that effected life and culture throughout Europe.
What is the Black Death
200
There are more than 50 of these hieroglyphic scenes depicting the trials a soul must go through (with indications of dialogue and action).
What are Pyramid Texts?
200
The Greek playwright who was considered the most "modern" of all the Greek tragedians.
Who is Euripides?
200
We get our modern theatre term "vom" from this Roman theatre term
What is vomitorium?
200
The softer, more "feminine" acting style in kabuki
What is wagato?
200
This secular canoness modeled her plays after Terence.
Who is Hrosthvita?
300
The life, death, and resurrection of this Egyptian god was popular material for drama.
Who is Osiris?
300
This is the direct-address choral ode in which the chorus either discusses a political situation or praises the author and pleads for the audience's favor.
What is a parabasis?
300
This Roman comic playwright influenced Hrothsvitha and may have been a former slave.
Who is Terence?
300
The form of Japanese drama rooted in Zen Buddhism; sometimes called "the art of walking"
What is Noh?
300
The only "blessing" that remains at the end of Everyman.
What is Good Deeds?
400
This drama dates from around 2500 B.C.E.
What is the Memphite drama?
400
This playwright from Greek New Comedy had his work adapted by the Romans more than any other writer except for Homer.
Who is Menander?
400
The term for epic water battles in Roman popular entertainment.
What is naumachia
400
The word for "theatre" in Indonesia
What is "wayang"?
400
The performance trope (meaning "Whom do you seek") that was added to Easter services around 925 C.E.
What is Quem Quaeritis?
500
This Passion Play tells the story of the life and death of Osiris and was performed at the most sacred spot in Egypt.
What is the Abydos Passion Play?
500
The organization that was formed to negotiate for and protect the rights of actors and performers (but not mimes) during the reign of Alexander the Great.
What is the Artists of Dionysus?
500
The philosophical view held by Seneca (who wrote Thyestes)
What is stoicism?
500
The class system in India
What is the caste system?
500
The 4 humours of medicine in the Middle Ages.
What are black bile, phlegm, blood, and yellow bile?