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Name that Character!
Know your Theatre
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Then what happens?
Shakespearian stuff
100
"Romeo, o Romeo! Where for art thou romeo?"
Who is Juliet?
100
Italian dances where everyone was in costume.
What is a Masquerade?
100
The platform on which the actors perform.
What is a stage?
100
Who climbs over the wall into the Capulet's garden?
Who is Romeo?
100
When an actor is alone on stage, talking to the audience.
What is a soliloquy?
200
"But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?"
Who is Romeo?
200
How the public was entertained in the Middle Ages.
What are Public Executions?
200
Actors usually wear these to define their character.
What is a costume?
200
The murderer of Mercutio.
Who is Tybalt?
200
When an actor is not alone on stage, but he still talks to the audience.
What is an Aside?
300
"Virtue itself turns to vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified."
Who is Friar Lawrence?
300
This type of play generally ends badly and could have been avoided.
What is a Tragedy?
300
These can be small and can be held by the actors, but can be crucial to a scene. E.g. a sword fighting scene.
What is a Prop?
300
Stabbed by Romeo and left to die in a graveyard.
Who is Paris?
300
Shakespeare liked to end his speeches with these.
What is a Rhyming Couplet?
400
"A plague on BOTH your houses!"
Who is Mercutio?
400
She gave these companies of actors permission to open Play Houses all over London.
Who is Queen Elizabeth?
400
Usually found behind the actors, it can be very elaborate, or very simple - but it does tell you WHERE and WHEN things are happening.
What is a Set?
400
Juliet's Family Name.
Who are the Capulets?
400
The opposite of prose writing.
What is Verse?
500
"For never was there a story of more woe, Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
Who is the Prince?
500
What we call the revival of theatre during Shakespeare's time.
What is English Renaissance Theatre?
500
Used by directors to dictate which way an actor will face or move through a particular scene.
What is Blocking?
500
She is one of only two people who know of Romeo and Juliet's marriage.
Who is the Nurse?
500
a line with five Iambs, made up of ten syllables.
What is Iambic Pentameter?