Show:
Ch. 1: Theatrical Experience
Ch. 2: Plot
Ch. 3: Character
Ch. 5: Serious Drama
Ch. 6: Comedy
100
A long speech to the audience in Shakespearean plays:
What is a soliloquy?
100
Giving information about what happened before the play begins:
What is exposition?
100
According to Aristotle, the moral dimension of character is called:
What is ethos?


100
This play depicts the lives and deaths of the resident's of Grover's Corners on an essentially empty stage:
What is Our Town?
100
Type of comedy which relies on physical humor, or slapstick:
What is a farce?
200
The art of theater as dramatic writing performed on a stage began in what country?
What is Ancient Greece? 
200
The extent of fictional time which a play covers:
What is range?
200
Both Euripides and Sophocles wrote tragedies about this character.
Who is Heracles?
200
What objects fill the stage at the end of an Ionesco play?
What are chairs?
200
The comic character who pretends to be more than he actually is, Aristotle calls the:
What is the braggart?
300
Which Shakespeare character said theater holds a mirror up to nature?
Who is Hamlet?
300
The number of times a scene replays:
What is frequency?
300
The most popular character types in Commedia Dell'arte are:
What are servants?
300
A play concerning the 30 years war:
What is Mother Courage and her children?
300
The comic technique which depicts people acting like robots without thinking is called:
What is automatism?
400

The Greek word mimesis means:

What is "an imitation of human action?"
400
What is good, beautiful, and desirable in the world of the play:
What is value mode?
400
The only complete Greek trilogy still in existence:
What is the Oresteia trilogy?
400
German author/director who made use of epic theater:
Who is Brecht?
400
The comic technique which emphasizes ridiculous contrasts in situation and character is called:
What is incongruity?
500
An early American director who produced highly realistic plays:
Who is David Belasco?
500
What is possible and impossible within the play?
What is being mode?
500
In Renaissance drama, a villain who respects no moral law in seeking his own purposes:
What is machiavel?
500
A play about a wealthy woman tempting a greedy town to avenge her:
What is The Visit?
500
The creator of Greek new comedy was:
Who is Menander?