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100
He is considered the greatest dramatist of all time.
Who is William Shakespeare?
100
A style of theatre in which stock characters are used to create improvised plays based on scenarios.
What is Commedia Del 'Arte?
100
Plays based on Biblical stories.
What are mystery plays?
100
The shape of theatres of Renaissance.
What is theatre in the round?
100
The name of the GHS 2012 musical.
What was Beauty and the Beast?
200
He was the first playwright to use black (unrhymed) verse.
Who is Christopher Marlowe?
200
Characters that the audience would immediately recognize based on costumes and masks.
What are stock characters?
200
Plays dealing with the principles of right and wrong.
What are morality plays?
200
Playgoers on the ground level at Elizabethan playhouses.
Who were groundlings?
200
The title of the GHS 2013 play.
What was Bad Seed?
300
The English playwright responsible for expanding the humors in order to add complexity to characters.
Who is Ben Jonson?
300
Plot outlines
What are scenarios?
300
Plays based on the lives of saints.
What are miracle plays?
300
The roof above the stage in the Elizabethan playhouses.
What is The Heavens?
300
May 2nd
What is the date of the Theatre Banquet?
400
The reason Shakespeare's plays are still relevent.
What are universal themes?
400
Humorous bits of stage business
What is lazzi?
400
The plays of Medieval Drama originated here.
What is the church?
400
Acting stations on which plays were performed in the middle ages.
What were mansions?
400
June 1st
What is the date of the Cappies Gala?
500
He wrote Doctor Faustus.
Who is Christopher Marlowe?
500
The young lovers
Who are the innamorati and innamoratae?
500
Which era followed the middle ages? (Hint: it means 'rebirth')
What is the Renaissance?
500
The name of the theatre in London where many of Shakespeare's plays were performed.
What is the Globe?
500
The current GHS Thespian Secretary.
Who is Jarrett Jones?