Greek
What genre has a flawed hero who will have or has had a tragic downfall?
What is tragedy?
This type of play taught the difference between right and wrong.
What are morality plays?
English poet, playwright, and actor who wrote famous works such as Romeo and Juliet, and A Midsummer's Night Dream.
Who is William Shakespeare?
A traditional Japanese garment.
What is a kimono?
What is a spontaneous performance without preparation?
What is improv?
These were used instead of using stage makeup. They typically had exaggerated features.
What are masks?
Performances related to the Church.
What are liturgical dramas?
A genre of theatre including amusing characters, outlandish situations, and a happy ending.
What is comedy?
A specific context given for players in an improv to create a scene from.
What is a scenario?
What is a Japanese style of theatre that is characterized by elaborate costuming, rhythmic dialogue, stylized acting, music, and dancing?
What is Kabuki?
This group of performers sing and describe scenes in the backgroud.
What is the Greek Chorus?
A two-tiered moveable space that touring plays were presented on.
What are pageant wagons?
Smaller divisions in an act; set in one place and time.
What is a scene?
A character in a drama or fiction that represents a type of person that is recognizable.
What is a stock character?
What is a genre of theatre about a flawed hero who will have or has had a tragic downfall?
What is tragedy?
What is the name of the short plays which were performed between the acts of tragedies and made fun of plight of tragedy’s characters?
What is a satyr play?
Platforms in churches that are decorated and represented biblical scenes.
What are mansions?
A few lines of inner thoughts a character shares with an audience.
What is an aside?
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity - mostly in politics.
What is satire?
A character speaks thoughts aloud for a long period of time and no one hears them.
What is a soliloquy?
A structure behind the playing area that was first a hut for changing masks and costumes but eventually became the background before the drama was enacted.
What is a skene?
Workers that would tour with shows to promote their work.
What are craft guilds?
A type of metric line used in traditional English poetry and verse drama.
What is iambic pentameter?
The upper class that is mostly passed down to different generations in the same family.
What is Aristocracy?
What is a genre of realistic, satirical comedy based on societal comments upon the manners and norms of certain groups?
What is Comedy of Manners?