Spain
In England, they're called "groundlings." In Spain, they're called:
Mosqueteros
The poetic form that Moliere writes in (which makes it particularly challenging to translate):
rhyming couplets
The purging of emotions as a result of pity and fear:
Katharsis
The Latin phrase tuas res tibi habeto was the only thing necessary for Romans to:
Divorce
The rolling carts upon which simple sets were constructed and mystery plays were presented were called:
Pageant wagons
Spanish theatres, converted from the courtyard in the middle of four buildings, are called:
Corrales
The national theatre of France, established during the French Renaissance and still in existence today, is that:
Comédie Française
In Old Comedy, a scene where actors directly confront, and talk to, the audience:
Parabasis
The Latin term, horror vacui, means:
Fear of empty space
Generally considered the first female playwright, this person wrote plays while living in a nunnery.
Hrosvitha of Gandersheim
The scene of much mischief and revelry, this was the area where women sat in the Spanish Golden Age theatres.
cazuela
The revival or adaptation of Greek or Roman practices in the Italian and French Renaissances is called:
Neoclassicism
The cart that showed the results of offstage violence during the Greek era:
Ekkyklema
During the Byzantine Empire (or the Eastern Roman Empire), this city was where the great library was located, this housed the Greek tragedies and texts by other classic writers?
Constantinople
The playing space for liturgical drama in the medieval period is called the:
Platea
While it is debatable exactly when the Spanish Golden Age ended, a standard view is that, at least for the theatre, the era ended with the death of __________ in 1681.
Pedro Calderón
The longest serving member of a French theatre company (for example, Moliere), responsible for managing all aspects of company business, is called the:
Doyen
A term used both to describe early imitative performances, and meaning an imitation or representation of an action is:
Mimesis
Anything that shows a displacement of time, or something that doesn't belong, is called:
An anachronism
Biblical stories
Mystery Plays
A type of Spanish play with melodrama, romance, and swashbuckling heroes was called:
Capa y espada
Similar to English trade guilds, the _______________ was the group in France that organized religious drama, maintaining a monopoly on theatre in Paris for over 100 years.
Confrérie de la Passion
Elevated shoes used during the Hellenistic theatre to give the actors more height:
Kothornos
In plays such as Everyman, characters with names like Knowledge, Beauty, Five Wits, and Good Deeds are _______________________ in nature, meaning they are based on abstract ideas.
Allegorical
Short playlets performed as part of a church service
Tropes