Famous Playwrights
Who is the greatest English Playwright of all time?
Who is William Shakespeare?
Thomas Fletcher.
Who is Shakespeare's protegee?
In Kathakali, they are typically based on archetypes: kings, heroines, demons, demonesses, Gods, animals, priests, though some seem drawn from life
Who are Characters?
This machine was used to take actors out of the Greek orkestra.
Dues Ex Machina
He was born in Madrid in 1562. He is one of the most prolific literary figures in ALL of history, having written nearly a thousand plays.
Who is Lope?
Which Roman Playwright is the most famous.
Who is Plauts?
According to Shakespeare, these are plays that are not based on a recent historical figure and that end happily.
What is a Comedy?
There are this many bhavas in Sanskirt drama.
What is 9?
He is the reason we have theatre birthed in Greece.
Who is Thespis?
Here are your neoclassical must-haves: Number One says that the action onstage must be believable.
What is Verisimilitude?
He wrote the greatest tragedy.
Who is Sophicles?
This theory said that bodies were composed of black bile, yellow bile, blood and phlegm.
What are the four humors?
In Kabuki, acting families were famous for this unique style.
what is Kata?
He is the most famous figure of classical comedy for the very good reason that his plays are the ones that still exist.
Who is Aristophanes?
This movement in France held sway for more than a century, and its austere style helped make France the dominant European cultural center of the day.
What is Neoclassicism?
While he was aware of the neoclassical rules, who never adhered to them as carefully or as elegantly, as Racine did.
Who is Cornille?
This would be made of 8–12 shareholders, 3–4 boys, a few hired players, some musicians, and a couple of stagehands.
A music theater style with its origins in classical Chinese drama that went through a bumpy patch during the Cultural Revolution, but is still performed today.
What is the Beijing Opera?
He wrote six plays, which borrowed heavily from Menander, and also a popular character in South Park.
Who is Terrance?
She was born in Mexico in 1648, the illegitimate daughter of a Spanish military officer. She was mostly self-educated and said that she wrote her first play at the age of eight.
Who is Sor Juana?
He founded a new company, picked up a couple of patrons, and started writing farces that gently mocked French manners.
Who is Moliere?
Shakespeares Comedies and Tragedies are now joined by what other type of play.
What are Romances?
In Beijing Opera these are color-coded. Red costumes are for brides and loyal characters; yellow for royal ones; white for old ones and people in mourning.
What are Costumes?
Playwrights wrote three tragedies and a very specific tye of this comedy.
What are Satyr Plays?
This German movemnet is really hard to tell what it is about, because as aesthetic movements go, this one wasn't the most coherent.
What is Strum und Drang?