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100

The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet

Who is William Shakespeare?

100

This title character is now synonymous with religious hypocrisy and con-artistry. 

Who is Tartuffe?

100

Everyman

What is a Morality Play?

100

This Medieval 'portable' stages on wheels traveled with Cycle Plays from town to town.

What are Pageant Wagons?

100

Scripts with everyday, non-rhyming language, spoken like a conversation, is described as this type of text. 

What is prose?

200

The Great Theatre of the World

Who is Calderon de la Barca?

200

Shakespeare's Moor of Venice.

Who is Othello?

200

This genre typically is comprised of 7 elements of comedy.

What is Farce?

200

The Puritans tore down all the Playhouses and executed the King of England, leaving England, Scotland, and Ireland to have this name of government to replace the monarchy.

What is the Commonwealth of England?

200

This is the term for a metered text developed in Elizabethan Drama that does not need to rhyme.

What is blank verse?

300

The Alchemist

Who is Ben Johnson?

300

This character is ordered by a judge to obey his wife and "shut the door" in a Medieval French Farce.

The Cobbler

300

This genre began in Italy in 1598 and incorporated music with 2 distinct styles of singing.

What is Opera?

300

In early music-dramas performed in Cathedrals, this was the open acting area where performers could move between the Mansions.

What is the Platea?

300

He was the first playwright to edit and publish a collection of his plays.

Who is Ben Johnson?

400

The Spanish Tragedy

Who is Thomas Kyd?

400

This is the only character who can accompany Everyman into the afterlife.

Who is Good Deeds?

400

Islamic Commemorative Drama.

What is Ta-ziyeh?

400

These "gags", or stock jokes, were added into a commedia dell'arte play or performance in order to ensure the comic action kept apace.


What are Lazzi?

400

This muslim text, which was originally written on bits of leather in the 7th century C.E., was a complete set of 114 chapters by the 9th century C.E.

What is the Qur'an?

500

The Servant of Two Masters

Who is Carlo Goldoni?

500

This supernatural character travels the universe for 24 years serving a Doctor in a Marlowe play.

Who is Mephistopheles?

500

Spanish spectacles depicting battles with the victorious Crusades.

What are Moros y Cristianos?

500

These Dutch Festivals raised the standards in playwriting through competitions sponsored by the Chambers of Rhetoric Societies.

What is Landjuweelen (LAWHNT-yu-vay-lehn)?

500

This phrase, translated to "The world is a stage", sums up the notion that theatre and actors selectively hide the mechanisms of dramatic function from the audience in the same way the social and political realms hide the way they negotiate behind closed doors.

What is Theatrum Mundi?