Structure
Logical sequence of events in a play
What is plot?
Emotional purging of big emotions
Exaggerated low comedy style
What is a farce?
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
What is Marlowe's mighty line?
Appearance, speech, opinion, thought, action, motivation and greatness
What are the seven methods of characterization?
Information audience needs to understand the initial situation in the play
What is exposition?
Aristotle's most important element of tragedy
What is plot?
Intellectual comedy
What is high comedy?
Shakespeare's theatre
What is the Globe?
The speaking aloud of character's inner feelings and thoughts
What is a soliloquy?
Ominous hint at later action in the play
What is foreshadowing?
Moment of recognition for a tragic hero
What is anagnorisis?
Comedy that critiques society
What is satire?
Monarch who supported the growth of theatre in Renaissance England
Who is Queen Elizabeth?
A character that the hero unburdens himself / herself to
What is the confidant?
What is a river structure?
Exaggerated off-shoot of tragedy; term first used at the beginning of 19th C in England
What is melodrama?
Comic contrast
What is incongruity?
Roman playwright who inspired Elizabethan comedies
Who is Plautus?
_________ should be appropriate, adequate, available, consistent
What is character motivation?
Satisfactory resolution to the problem initiated at the beginning of the play
What is the denouement?
Structure of Greek tragedy
What is climatic structure?
When a character loses his or her human qualities
What is automatism?
Where the first private theatre was opened in 1576
Blackfriars
A character that stays the same through the play
What is a static character?