Week 1
This is the term that began with Lessing in Germany and involves theatrical research.
What is dramaturg/dramaturgy?
This type of ancient Greek performance included bawdy sexual jokes, phallic imagery, and half-human half-goat creatures.
What is a Satyr Play?
Roman comedies involved this type of situation.
Who is domestic?
This source will probably be most of your sources for your research paper.
What are secondary sources?
Who was Hrosvitha?
This term implies doing something/actions created by words.
What is Performativity?
This person wrote Lysistrata.
Who was Aristophanes?
Violence occurred in this area in ancient Roman theatre.
What is onstage?
What are his own children in pies?
This type of Medieval drama presents an allegorical plot without specific representation of Biblical plots.
What is a morality play?
This term describes the study of History.
What is Historiography?
This is the type of Greek theatre to which the play Medea belongs.
What is ancient Greek tragedy?
Roman theatre eliminated this aspect of Greek theatre.
What is the chorus?
Human participants in Roman paratheatrics included prisoners of war, criminals sentenced to death, and these people.
Who are gladiators/slaves?
These groups produced Corpus Christi plays.
What are guilds?
This is the script analysis format that begins with the inciting incident and ends with a denouement and resolution.
What is Freytag's Pyramid?
This Greek philosopher banned playwrights from his ideal kingdom.
Who was Plato?
This drama was meant to be read in small groups and not performed.
What is closet drama?
This is the playwright of Everyman.
What is Unknown/Cleric?
For processional Medieval dramas, these types of two-story staging devices were used.
What are pageant wagons?
This is the oldest-known surviving illustrated papyrus describing a performance to celebrate an Egyptian pharaoh.
What is the Ramesseum Dramatic Papyrus?
Neoclassical French theatre got its ideal unities from this philosophical treatise on theatre.
What is Aristotle's Poetics?
Horace's Ars Poetica said theatre should be these two (2) things.
What is pleasing and useful?
This is the playwright of Second Shepherd's Play.
Who is the Wakefield Master?
This was a criticism of the long-running German passion play that is still produced every ten years.
What is anti-Semitic?