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100

This person reprimands the king for exiling his daughter.

Who is Kent?

100

erotic, comic, pathetic, furious, heroic, terrible, odious, and marvelous are all examples of this. 

What is a rasa

100

The city in which the Renaissance began.

What is Florence?

100

The Red Lion, The Curtain, and The Theatre are all examples of this. 

What is an Elizabethan public theatre?

100

The Palais and Petit Bourbon are examples of these. 

What are French Court theatres?

200

In Tartuffe, Orgon accepts Elmire’s plan to reveal Tartuffe’s hypocrisy for this reason. 

What is trying to prove his innocence?

200

This or The Art of Theatre, our major source of information about theatre in India is attributed to Bharta, the creator, although perhaps the cumulative work of many persons.

What is Natyashastra?

200

The author of The Mandrake.

Who is Niccolò Machiavelli

200

Established in 1594, this troupe was led by Edward Alleyn and Phillip Henslow. 

What are the Admiral's Men?

200

This Italian designer came to Paris to design The Couterfit Madwomen (La Finta Pazza), the same work that had made him famous at the Teatro Novissimo in Venice. 

Who is Giacomo Torelli?

300

In The Mandrake, this is where Calimaco lived before returning to Florence.

Where is Paris?

300

The Vision of Vasavadatta, Carudatta, The Little Clay Cart, and The Pearl Necklace are all examples of this.

What is Sanskrit Drama?

300

These were descended from the mascherata of carnival time and entertainments given at court on special occasions. They were first coupled with comedies in the late fifteenth century.

What are intermezzi?

300
This theatre first built by the Burbage family in 1599, burned down in 1613 and was rebuilt in 1614. This theatre is often called Shakespeare's theatre as this is where the Lord Chamberlian's Men called home. 

What is the Globe theatre

300

 Catherine de Medici was especially fond of royal entries and festivals which she could use to illustrate France’s power.’ to encourage alliances or reconciliations. Through spectacles such as these.

What is Ballet de Cour?

400

In Snow in Midsummer, Donkey Chang takes this from Doctor Lu.

What is poison?

400

This the first great period of Chinese Art and literature. During which China came to equal the Roman Empire They were said to have kept thousands of entertainers at court. All sorts of entertainments flourished so many that they came to be called the hundred games, though none of them seemed to be dramas.

What is the Han Dynasty?

400

This semisecret society founded by the humanist Julius Laetus, in the mid-15th century for the purpose of reviving classical ideals

What is the Accademia Romana?

400

Thomas Kyd and a group of educated men, who turned to writings for the public stage, most important of these writers were John Lyly from Oxford and Robert Greene and Christopher Marlowe from Cambridge were from this group.

Who are the University Wits?

400

This is France’s first professional dramatist, s inspired by the Spanish dramatists and, like them, wrote an exceptional number of plays. He claimed to have written over 500, but only 34 have survived.

Who is Alexandre Hardy?

500

In Atsumori, Atsumori returns to camp in the midst of the battle of Ichinotani for this object. 

What is a flute?

500

These were situated in special areas called tile districts. According to contemporary accounted these theatres were fenced enclosures above which flags and banners flew. The stage was a roofed platform, open on three sides; at ground level, there was a large area where people might stand, and around this might be raised stands or balconies. There are said to have been fifty or more theatres in Kaifeng, the northern Song capitol

What is a Goulan or city playhouses?

500

This banking family and later ducal ruling house, in patronizing and stimulating the arts,  was the catalyst for an enormous amount of arts patronage, encouraging their countrymen to commission works from the leading artists of Florence, including Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, and Michelangelo Buonarroti.

Who are the Medici Family?

500

Nicholas Udall wrote one of the best-known early Tudor comedies, (c. 1534—1541). In this play, Heavily indebted to Braggart Warrior,  the foolish posturings of a boastful coward, and his courtship of a widow.

What is Ralph Roister Doister?

500

When the Confrerie lost its monopoly on theatre in 1629, this company, with its famous trio of farce characters, Gros-Guillaume, Gaultier-Garguille, Turlupin, took up permanent residence in the Hotel de Bourgogne.

Who are the Royal Company?