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This person was known as "the first actor" and the inventor of tragedy.
What is Thespis
100
Name three types of Religious plays
What is Morality, Miracle, and Mystery.
100
Famous playwright of this time period.
What is William Shakespeare
100
Appearance of truth
What is verisimilitude
100
This playwright wrote Tartuffe
What is Moliere
200
These two playwrights wrote different versions of "Electra"
What is Sophocles and Euripides
200
She is credited with being the first female playwright.
What is Hvrosvitha?
200
Writing religious plays was banned because of
What is Queen Elizabeth.
200
La Mandragola also known as "The Mandrake" was written by
What is Niccolo Machiavelli
200
This playwright was very particular about his works. They had to consist of perfect structure, complexity, and unity.
What is Pedro Calderon de la Barca?
300
This person is credited for creating dialogue.
What is Aeschylus
300
This dramatic presentation of the suffering of Jesus Christ is called
What is passion play.
300
The playwright wrote Romeo & Juliet
What is William Shakespeare
300
This major contribution to Theatre was the beginning of professional improvisation.
What is Commedia dell' arte
300
This new dramatic form consisted of 3 act plays, sub genre, and character roles.
What is comedian nueva
400
Aristotle's Poetics was used as a guideline for playwrights, they are made up of 6 elements...
What is Main idea, Plot, Character, Language, Music, and Spectacle
400
Performed on pageant wagons, this play showed a series of biblical stories
What is cycle play
400
Movies such as "Kiss me Kate", "10 things I hate about you", "Deliver us from Eva" are based on..
What is Shakespeare's "Taming of the shrew"
400
This new concept consist of ideas such as verisimilitude, decorum, purity of genre, and the three unities.
What is neoclassicism?
400
During Spanish religious drama, Auto Sacramentale was a type a play with combined characteristic such as..
What is morality and cycle plays
500
During the Roman Theatre period, Plautus wrote a play called "Miles Gloriosus" also known as.
What is The Braggart Soldier"
500
For this particular reason most Medieval plays were anonymous.
What is people would not take credit for work that came from God.
500
Mistakenly known as known as the creator of theatre..
What is William Shakespeare
500
Name the three unities of verisimilitude
What is unit of time, unit of place, unit of action
500
Pierre Corneille's Le Cid caused a lot of controversy for this reason..
What is he did not respect the rules of neoclassicism