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This guy was known for his episodic plot, his verse and his amazing characters.... he was also a pretty big deal during the Elizabethan period.
Who is William Shakespeare?
100
The most renowned of the absurdist playwrights.
Who is Samuel Beckett?
100
The most popular Morality Play.
What is Everyman?
100
The amount of people that it takes to manipulate a Bunraku puppet.
What is three people?
100
Type of play that is considered to be the "art of walking".
What is Noh Theatre?
200
Playwrights who provided boy's companies with scripts.
What are the University Wits?
200
This place was NOT known for its innovations in theatre.
What is Rome?
200
The character in Commedia Dell'arte that character a wooden sword, or "slapstick".
Who is Harlequin?
200
Type of play that seeks to convince the audience that the action onstage is representative of everyday life.
What is Realism?
200
Type of Medieval Religious plays that showed a series of short religious dramas (called mystery plays) presented in a sequence.
What are cycle plays?
300
The founder of realism.
Who is Henrik Ibsen?
300
The language that liturgical dramas were originally written in.
What is Latin?
300
Type of Noh play that deals with living characters in the present and had a major influence on another type of Japanese theatre, Kabuki.
What are present existence plays?
300
This genre of theatre began as a reaction to World War II.
What is theater of the absurd?
300
Pantalone, Capitano, Zanni and Harlequin are all characters in this type of play.
What is Commedia Dell'arte?
400
The only Roman tragic playwright of note.
Who is Seneca?
400
This type of Japanese theatre combined elements of Noh, Bunraku and folk theatre.
What is Kabuki?
400
The most significant figure in the history of Japanese Noh theatre.
Who is Zeami Motokiyo?
400
Type of Noh play that deals with spirits and more fascinating ideas.
What are phantasmal plays?
400
Ibsen's famous realistic play.
What is A Doll's House?
500
The two Roman comic playwrights of note.
Who are Terence and Plautus?
500
Kabuki female impersonators
What are onnagatas?
500
The most famous Bunraku playwright.
Who is Chikamatsu Manzaemon?
500
The guy who perfected the chronicle play.
Who is Christopher Marlowe?
500
One of Christopher Marlowe's most famous plays.
What is Doctor Faustus?