Name that Period!
Which period is the play "Everyman" from?
Medieval
Who is the only person to accompany Everyman to the grave?
Good Deeds
What does theatre mean?
Seeing Place
Who is the Father of Realism?
Henrik Ibsen
A Comedic play at the end of a Tragedy
Satyr Play
During this period, theatres were built outside of city limits, near brothels and bear-baiting pits?
Elizabethan
Who is engaged to Antigone in Antigone?
Haemon
Who is credited for being the first actor after stepping out of the chorus line?
In what European period did plays become entirely free from religious themes and became disconnected from public holidays or festivals?
Renaissance
What kind of plays were written to be read instead of performed?
Closet Dramas
From which period is Sophocles?
Greek
In Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, who does Sebastian end up marrying?
Olivia
Who created the technique that encourages emotional preparation and practices reactions through a prolonged period of repetition?
Meisner
Which Roman stock character can be described as loving themselves more than anything, believing they are handsome, and brave despite being cowardly
Miles Gloriosus
What play is an example of Theatre of the Absurd?
a) A Dolls House
b) Death of a Salesman
c) The Glass Menagerie
d) Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot
Which period is the writer Christopher Marlowe from?
Elizabethan
Who is Antigone's Father?
Oedipus
What is the term that means "the release of emotion" and which Aristotle said was the reason we like tragedy?
Catharsis
What was the dominant style of theatre in the 1900s?
Realism
Which type of theatre was improvised theatre by a traveling troupe of professionals?
Comedia Dell'Arte
This period featured the first stage that was raised off of the ground
Roman
In "The Epic of Gilgamesh" the gods decide that one demi-god must die to atone for their atrocities on Earth. Who is killed?
Enkidu
Deus Ex Machina
What was the original name of the acting troupe of William Shakespeare?
The Lord Chamberlain's Men
Developed from Greek and Roman performances, a fusion of music and theatre where the action is set entirely to music
Opera