The first person to leave the chorus, known as the first actor.
Who is Thespis.
100
These were the three types of plays found in medieval times
What are mystery, miracle, and morality plays?
100
These writers set the course for Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, paving the way for Shakespeare.
What is the University of Wits?
100
This is what theatre in the 18th and 19th centuries was known for.
What is commercialization of the art, technological innovations, and critical review?
100
These movements were theatrical manifestations of the political movements of the proletariat.
What is realism, naturalism, symbolism, and impressionism?
200
This is where Greek theatre took place.
What is an ampitheatre?
200
The hero represents this in Morality Plays.
What is Mankind or Everyman.
200
These were the prominent playwrights during the Elizabethan Era.
Who are Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Jonson.
200
This actor dominated theatre in England in the 18th century.
Who is David Garrick?
200
These were some of the first major commercialized musicals in America.
What is Zeigfield's Follies, Oklahoma!, Porgy and Bess, and Showboat?
300
These were the three tragedians that dominated Greek theatre.
Who is Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripedes?
300
This is the battle for the soul that takes place in Morality Plays.
What is psychomachia?
300
These French playwrights influenced theatre during the Restoration.
Who are Racine, the tragedian and Moliere, the comedian?
300
Traveling troupes performed this type of theatre, starting in Italy and traveled all over Europe, influencing theatre in Spain, Holland, Germany, Austria, England, and France.
What is commedia dell' arte?
300
These playwrights advanced serious drama in the modern age.
Who are Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams?
400
These were the two comedic writers that dominated Greek theatre.
Who is Aristophanes and Menander?
400
These are morality plays with more pronounced realistic and comic elements.
What is the interlude?
400
Theatre in this country began to focus more on the mechanics of scenery and spectacle.
What is France?
400
These were the great playwrights of the 19th century.
Who is Henrik Ibsen, George Bernard Shaw, and Anton Checkhov?
400
This playwright brought comedic writing to a level of near-perfection and commercial success.
Who is Neil Simon?
500
These are the two forms that Roman theatre took.
What are Fabula Palliata and Fabula Togata?
500
This was the rebirth of the classical worlds of Rome and Greece.
What is the Renaissance?
500
This is the number of plays Shakespeare wrote.
What is 22?
500
Theatre became prominent in this American city during the 19th century.
What is New York City?
500
These are the ways theatre manifests itself in modern day society.
What is modeling, broadway shows, high school and educational theatre, performance art, Improv Everywhere, etc.?