Show:
Define
Draw
List
People
Miscellaneous
100
Renaissance
Period of rebirth
100
Draw and label the Roman Theatre
Crane, skene, stage, audience
100
What are the 3 types of admission in Shakespeare's day?
General (groundlings), galleries, private boxes
100
Who was Hrosvitha?
German nun who was the first female dramatist
100
Elizabeth I decreed no plays would be performed on what two subjects?
Politics and Religion
200
Cycle
Number of short plays that dramatize the Bible from creation to Doomsday
200
Draw the Roman theatre
Audience, orchestra, stage
200
Name two of the three playwrights in the modern era
Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Thornton Wilder
200
Stanislavski worked with what two theaters?
Moscow Art Theatre, American Laboratory Theatre, Group Theatre
200
During Shakespeare's time, who did actors get to sponsor them because they weren't in a guild?
Patrons
300
Greek Tragedy
Greek play in which the human and the divine mix; man versus the gods or fate
300
Draw the Medieval Fixed Stage
Heaven, platea, stage, mansions, hell
300
What are two functions of songs in musicals?
Further plot (speed up time), express emotions, reveal a character's heart
300
Who wrote South Pacific, Oklahoma!, Sound of Music?
Rodgers and Hammerstein
300
Shakespeare was part owner of what theatre?
The Globe
400
Deus ex machina
God from or in the machine, lowered gods down when they didn't know how to end a play
400
Draw and label Medieval Movable Stage
Machine loft, curtain, stage, tiring house, pageant cloth
400
Four categories of performers in Greek Drama
Actors, chorus, supernumeraries, musicians
400
What was the most famous Greek play?
Oedipus the king
400
How many plays did Shakespeare write?
38