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What's That Play
Shakespeare's London
International Perspective
Profound Shakespeare (Quotes)
Stage Tech
100
1586  This Thomas Kyd play introduced the genre of revenge tragedy
What is The Spanish Tragedy
100
1599  The primary home of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men
What is The Globe Theater
100
His nickname is “The Sun King”; Proprietor of ballet in the French Court
Who is King Louis XIV
100
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”
What is Romeo and Juliet
100
The primary mode of lighting
What is Candlelight
200
1425  The earliest surviving English play manuscript
What is The Castle of Perseverance
200
Elizabeth I forbids the writing and performance of these two types of drama in the year 1559.
What are religious and political drama
200
1600  This acrobatic form of theatre emerges in Japan from a combination of traditional Buddhist and popular dance forms
What is Kabuki
200
“Nothing can come of nothing: speak again”
What is King Lear
200
This system consists of an arbor and counterweight system
What is a Fly System
300
1665  This Darby play was the first English language play performed in the colonies
What is Ye Bare and Ye Cubb
300
Attended King’s College; author of Anatomy of Wit
Who is John Lyly
300
1580  This country’s notable playwrights from this period include Lope de Vega and Pedro Calderon de la Barca
What is Spain
300
“Now is the winter of our discontent”
What is Richard III
300
Inigo Jones introduced mobile scenery and this type of stage to the English Theatre
What is a proscenium
400
1520  Poet Ludovico Ariosto is known for writing five comedies and this poem
What is Orlando Furioso
400
1642  This royal is beheaded thus ending the Christian rule and forced the closing of all theatres in England
Who is King Charles
400
This Frenchman is the first to elevate comedy as a respectable genre
Who is Moliere
400
“If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me”
What is Macbeth
400
This was the only innovation in stagecraft/design for 300+ years; Became the convention in Europe by 1650
What is Italian Stagecraft
500
1607  This Monteverdi is regarded as the first masterpiece in Opera history
What is Orfeo
500
1589  He was the first to succeed with blank verse, thus inspiring a generation of Elizabethan and Jacobean writers
Who is Christopher Marlowe
500
1618  This Italian theatre is often cited as a precursor to the modern playhouse
What is The Teatro Farnese
500
“To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on”
What is Othello
500
1680  This family of Italian artists and architects had a profound effect on design, introducing oblique perspective
What is the Bibiena Family