Ancient Greek
The Greek god of wine and fertility who has the festival, City of Dionysia after him.
What is Dionysis?
A popular and violent form of entertainment
What is gladiators?
The everyday language of the common people.
What is vernacular?
Commedia originated as a form of comedy in this century and country.
What is 16th century Italy?
Took place during this century.
What is the 15th - 16th century?
A group of performers, typically dancers or singers, who comment on the action of the play. They act as a collective voice.
What is a Chorus?
The actors during this period were known to be.
What is professional performers?
The three types of plays during this time.
What are mystery, miracle, and morality plays?
A popular element of Commedia that the fixed character types wore.
What are masks?
The most important theatre personality of the Elizabethan period was this Actor/Playwright/Company Owner
What is William Shakespeare?
A play in which the king of Thebes unwittingly kills his father and marries his mother.
What is Oedipus Rex?
Eliminated this element from the Greeks, but added music to the dialogue.
What is the chorus?
A story where characters, settings, and events represent abstract ideas, moral lessons, or larger concepts.
What is an allegory?
Characters of the commedia dell'arte generally fall under three categories: the Zanni (servants, tricksters and clowns), the Innamorati (young lovers), and the Vecchi (masters and the elderly).
What is stock characters?
Shakespeare wrote this many plays and sonnets during his time.
What is 38 plays and 154 sonnets?
The four most famous ancient Greek playwrights.
What is Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes?
The three most famous playwrights of this time.
What is Plautus, Seneca, and Terence?
Short plays performed between courses at court banquets.
What is interludes?
There were no elaborate sets, but great use was made of this for animals, food, furniture, weapons, etc.
What is props?
The primary venue for Shakespeare's acting company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and later the King's Men. It's where audiences first saw many of his most famous plays, like Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear.
What is the Globe theatre?
The emotional purging or cleansing that the audience experiences after witnessing a play, particularly a tragedy. The tragic flaw or error in judgment that leads to the downfall of the tragic hero
What is catharsis and hamartia?
What are the four elements of Roman theatre?
What is non-religious, no chorus, tragedy, and comedy?
Plays focus on female characters and devotion to Christian virtues.
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What is music?
What is minimalism, no women, blood, gore, and magic?