Terminology
Time, Place, Action
What are the three unities?
What is Jacobean Theatre?
This person, though not a professional playwright, was the first female author of a full play written in English.
Who was Elizabeth Cary?
Henry Burkhead's play alludes to this real-life conflict.
What is the British vs. Irish conflict?
This form of theatre is the origin of the term "slapstick"- literally!
What is Commedia dell'Arte?
This term discusses appropriate social behavior for characters of particular class standings in plays.
What is decorum?
This individual was a prominent female actor of the Commedia dell'Arte genre.
Who was Isabella Andreini?
This person wrote many of the surviving Noh plays that we have today.
Who was Zeami?
This is the title of the first play written in and about the United States of America after its nationhood.
What is The Contrast?
In this genre, vengefulness causes the downfall of all, or nearly all, characters in the play.
What is Revenge Tragedy?
This character type aspires to be a fashionable, witty person.
What is a fop?
This individual was an Italian stage designer and architect.
Who was Giacomo Torelli?
This person wrote the first full play in and about the new United States of America.
Who was Royall Tyler?
This play, written by a female playwright, was likely a closet drama.
What is The Tragedy of Mariam?
This type of play parodies the behaviors of the upper class.
What is Comedy of Manners?
This type of line in a play is written using twelve syllables, with stress on the sixth and last syllables.
What is an Alexandrine?
This person is the father of Noh drama.
Who was Kan'ami?
This person, often associated with ruthless political behavior, wrote a play about a root that is alternately considered poisonous and an aphrodisiac.
Who was Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli?
The playwright of Servant of Two Masters hated this playwright so much that the former moved from Italy to France.
Who was Carlo Gozzi?
This form of drama was founded by a woman, though later women were excluded from performing.
What is Kabuki?
This type of line contains ten syllables which vary in a pattern between unstressed and stressed syllables.
What is iambic pentameter?
This family's sponsorship of various artists helped to begin the Renaissance in Italy.
Who was the Medici family?
This theatrical device is used to abruptly end Molière's play Tartuffe.
What is deus ex machina?
This Japanese play was written in the Noh genre.
What is Atsumori?
This is the theatre discussed in class that was among the earliest enclosed theatres in Renaissance-era England.
What is Blackfriars?