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Ancient Greece
MISC
R & R
Neoclassicism
Terms for the Term
100
Between the 5th and 6th Century BC
What is the Golden age of Greek Drama?
100
This is the term for a mobile stage of liturgical drama traditionally used during the middle ages.
What is a Pageant Wagon?
100
God created nature therefor nature is truth is a precept of this movement.
What is Romanticism?
100
These are the three unities of Neoclassicism.
What are Time, Place and Action?
100
This means god from the machine
What is Deus ex Machina?
200
The ancient greek god of Wine and Fertility
Who is Dionysus?
200
This art movement utilized chance poems.
What is Dadaism?
200
This person is considered to be the first director.
Who is the Duke of Saxe-Meiningan?
200
This is the neoclassical term for characters remaining true to their social status
What is Decorum?
200
Ekkyklema
What is an ancient greek 'death cart'?
300
This is the largest of the 4 major theatre fesivals in ancient Greece.
What is the City Dionysia
300
This modernist art movement believed that the only purpose of art was to intensify your experience and provide sensuous pleasure.
What is Art for Art sake?
300
This father of modern acting had a theatre installed in his house as a child.
Who is Konstantine Stanislavsky?
300
Truth Seeming OR true to life
What is verisimilitude?
300
Chiton
What is a traditional ancient greek garment?
400
These are the 3 big tragic playwrights of ancient Greece
Who are Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides?
400
This is the movement that found a way to avoid censorship by have people become subscribers.
What is the Independent Theatre Movement?
400
Realism was heavily influenced by the thearoies of these 4 men.
Who are Comte, Darwin, Marx and Freud?
400
This religious figure established the french Academy in 1636.
Who is Cardinal Richelieu?
400
This is sung and danced in honor of Dionysus
What is a Dithyramb?
500
These are the Aristotilean elements of Drama listed in order of importance.
What is Plot, Character, Theme, Diction, Music and Spectacle?
500
This 'ISM' is still the most utilized style of contemporary theatre.
What is Realism?
500
This is the term Wagner used to refer to his 'master art work' or a total unity of theatre.
What is gesamtkunstwerk?
500
According to Neoclassicism, these should never mix.
What are comedy and tragedy?
500
This is the point in Linear Plot Development when the Major Dramatic Question is posed.
What is the Point of Attack?