The Plays
This play tells the story of a king determined to win a war at all costs
What is Agamemnon?
Stock Characters
What are characters with fixed and easily recognizable personality traits?
Where the audience would sit
What is the Theatron?
Orestia
Dionysus is considered god over these two things
What are wine & fertility?
The theater where Shakespeare performed his plays
What is The Globe?
Wrote the only complete trilogy that has survived until now
Who is Aeschulus?
This play tells the story of a man who unknowingly marries his mom and murders his father
What is Oedipus Rex?
The Italian name of the only Commedia dell' Arte characters who do not wear a mask
Who are the Inamorati?
Circular performance area for chorus
What is the Orchestra?
Hubris
What is excessive pride?
Known as the first actor
Who is Thespis?
A group of people chanting in unison during a Greek play
Brought the number of actors to two
Who is Aeschylus?
In this play, a father murders his daughter
What is Agamemnon?
Zanni
What is a group of comic servants?
Entryway for the chorus
What is Parados?
Lazzi
What is a brief physical comical routine performed between Commedia dell' Arte scenes?
The tragic flaw of having too big of an ego
What is Hubris?
The literal translation of Commedia dell' Arte
What is Comedy of the Professional?
Wrote The Bacchae & focused on character development
Who is Euripides?
In this play a mother mistakes her son for a lion
What is The Bacchae?
A greedy and controlling character who is a part of the group of professionals
Only part the Greek theater covered by a roof
What is the Skene?
Soliloquy
What is an extended monologue expressing thoughts of a character alone on stage?
Aristotle's idea of the perfect tragedy plot
What is a good but flawed character makes a mistake and suffers a downfall; he realizes his mistake but it is too late to change and he is doomed?
A form of writing that features exactly ten syllables per line
What is Iambic Pentameter?
First to paint the Skene wall
Who is Sophocles?
In this play, a character tries to avoid his fate, but by doing so he ensures it will come to pass
What is Oedipus Rex?
A frequent prop of the Harlequin
What is a slapstick?
Ground level performance space
What is the Orchestra?
Improvisation
A form of acting used in Commedia dell' Arte where you make up the lines as you go based on a scenario (no script)
What is the Greeks were conquered by Rome?
How the audience at a Shakespeare play knew the time and location of the scene
The three genres of Shakespeare
What are Tragedies, Comedies, and Histories?