Can I get an Amen?
The world's first female playwright.
Hrosvita of Gandersheim
Personified Abstractions, Supernatural Catalyst, Didactic Purpose, Binary Moral Stakes, and an Allegorical Protagonist are elements of which type of Drama?
Morality Play
Italian thought became dominated by this core philosophy celebrating and exploring the human body, mind and worldly life.
Humanism
This city is known as the birthplace of Commedia dell'Arte
Venice
The plays written by William Shakespeare and the University Wits are classified as this type of Drama.
Elizabethan Drama
William Shakespeare was a founding member of this Elizabethan playing company.
The Lord Chamberlain's Men
Robert Greene of the University Wits became infamous for calling Shakespeare this special insult.
Upstart Crow
Art Collective responsible for "Hrosvit Challenge"
Guerrilla Girls
Another word for Trade
Mystery
A new appreciation for "the Classics" led to this Renaissance movement.
Neoclassicism
Top Master
Magnifico
This monarch established the Church of England after wishing to get a divorce from his first wife.
Henry VIII
This tragic character admonishes a group of actors, telling them to "Speak the speech, I pray you."
Hamlet
Most valuable property of The Lord Chamberlain's Men
Costumes
The earliest example of Liturgical Drama, translating to English as "Whom do you Seek?"
Quem Quaertis
A evolution of Liturgical Drama, covering not just the story of Jesus but the entire Christian Universe from Genesis to the Day of Judgement.
Cycle Drama
This family turned their financial capital into cultural/political capital through the means of Patronage, aka the financial backing of artists.
The Medici Family
Magnifico's Servant
Zanni
Queen Elizabeth I classified actors as vagrants and banned this type of entertainment.
Cycle Drama
Comedy, Tragedy, and History
Genres of William Shakespeare
The master of servants and the servant of masters.
Brighella
Author of the Regularis Concordia
Ethelwold, Bishop of Winchester
A type of play which depicted the lives of saints.
Miracle Plays
This Italian work was considered to be the "Poetics of scenery."
Treatise de Architecura
These physical/verbal comedic bits would temporarily veer from the scenario while providing an explosion of entertainment.
Lazzi
Built the first permanent playhouse known as "The Theatre."
Richard Burbage
Home of the Folger Shakespeare Library
Washington DC
Name of Shakespeare's Wife
Anne Hathaway
Earliest known example of Morality Play.
Ordo Virtutum (Hildegard of Bingen)
Kindred, Cousin, Fellowship, Goods, and Good Deeds are all examples of this element found in morality plays.
Personified Abstractions
This genre of comedy was primarily new versions of Platus and Terence plays written in the vernacular.
Commedia Erudita
The Children of Pantalone and the Doctor
The world's first indoor theatre.
The Blackfriars Theatre
Five pairs of Stressed/Unstressed syllables
Iambic Pentameter
Worth 10 million dollars
First folio