It's All Greek to Me
This country is known as the birthplace of theater. They are best known for bringing their mythology to life.
What is Greece?
A genre marked by great loss and hard times for the main characters; genre Antigone belongs to.
What is tragedy?
The Time period that lasted from 5 BCE to 15 ACE following the fall of the Roman Empire.
What is the Medieval Period?
This time period comes from the French word meaning Rebirth. They looked at old greek materials and expanded on those ideas with modern advancements and resources.
What is the Renaissance?
This play genre was created in the Greek century and revolved around making fun of societal norms and class structures; they have happy endings.
What is a comedy?
This seating area was built into the mountain around the orchestra for patrons to sit. This part specifically was divided based on class; the richer sat up higher.
What is a theatron?
This titular character went against the wishes of the king to try to bury both of her brothers. At the end, she is sentenced to death, but kills herself before her execution can be carried out.
Who is Antigone?
What is a mystery play?
Who is William Shakespeare?
This area was the backdrop of the stage in Greek theater where actors would also do costume changes.
What is the Skeen?
This Greek philosopher was very famous for this tragedies Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Electra, and Ajax.
Who is Sophocles?
Son of Creon; Kills himself when he sees Antigone has taken her own life.
Who is Haemon?
A group of performers who traveled to entertain with Music, storytelling, and theater skills.
What is a traveling band?
This genre came about using satire to poke fun at the aristocracy of the time; it many romantic entanglements and misunderstandings between the elite depicted.
What is Comedy of Manners?
These were very specific to greek theater; It's design helped with projection.
What is a mask?
This vital part of the actors were known for singing, dancing, and helping the audience understand what was going on when they couldn't see it themselves.
What was a chorus?
This is the way Antigone was sentenced to be put to death.
**Double points if you can tell me what it means**
What is immurement/entombment?
List the 3 places plays were performed at this time.
**answer doesn't need to be in the form of a question.**
Churches/Churchyards, Town Squares, Guild Halls
This special theater was bulit for William Shakespeare and his acting trope; it has been burned and rebuilt twice so far.
What is The Globe Theater?
Sister of Antigone who also tried to bury a brother and was the reason Antigone was order to be immured.
Who is Ismene?
This God is who theater was dedicated to. As the plays were seen as religious in nature, women were not allowed to perform in them.
Who is Dionysus?
What is the religious reason why Antigone went against the will of the King to bury both of her brothers instead of just one?
*Answer doesn't have to be in the form of a question.*
Spirits cannot move on unless their bodies are buried and marked by a grave.
These are the two main languages plays were written in at the time.
**bonus points if you can say why each language was used.**
What is Latin and Vernacular?
Vernacular was for regular entertainment but religious works were in Latin because of the source material.
This short period within the Renaissance Period was marked as bringing theater back after being band by the civil wars in Europe when it was banned.
What is the Restoration Period?
What was the reason we don't have playwrites from the Medieval Period?
**Answer doesn't need to be a question**
It focused on people coming together to write them instead of individuals.