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25 Cards in this Set
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Historiones |
Actors |
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Cavea |
Seating area |
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Orchestra |
Ground-floor seating in an auditorium |
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Scaena frons |
The ornate three-dimensional facade of the stage house |
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Scaena |
The stage house |
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Pulpitum |
A raised platform stage |
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Ludi Romani |
Roman festival in honor of Jupiter into which drama was first introduced |
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Atellan Farce |
Improvised comedic pieces dealing with exaggerated family situations or satirizing historical or mythological figures |
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Naumachina |
Sea battles staged on a flooded amphithreatre or on a lake |
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Auleum |
A front curtain that was raised and lowered on telescoping poles |
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Siparium |
A backdrop curtain at the rear of the stage |
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Mime |
A form of theatrical entertainment that consisted of short dramatic sketches characterized by jesting and buffoonery |
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Ars Poetica |
The only Latin treatise on dramatic criticism still in existence, which attempted to establish rules for Roman dramatists |
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Fabula crepidata |
Adapted from Greek works |
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Fibula praetexta |
Presented Roman story lines |
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Horace |
Best known writer of dramatic theory and criticism in the Roman period |
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Seneca |
- Chief Roman tragic write; 9 surviving plays - May have written closet dramas (meant to be recitation, not production) - Emphasizes violence - Characters don't have tragic flaw, have overwhelming emotion - Structure became basis for 5-act tragedy - Influenced use of supernatural characters |
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Plautus |
- Most popular Roman comic - 100 plays attributed to him; <45 considered to be written by him - 20 plays survived - Best known work is The Menaechmi |
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Terence |
- After Plautus, next most important comic writer - Stressed characterization, subtlety of expression, and elegant language |
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De Architectura |
Ten-volume treatise on architecture by Marcus Vitruvius, indicating that much of Roman architecture was base on a Hellenistic model |
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Dark Ages |
Period after the fall of the Roma empire |
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Decorum |
he language and actions of characters must fit traditional ideas of suitable behavior of their age, gender, social status, and emotional state |
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Fabula togata |
Comedies that dealt with Roman issues |
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Fabula pilliata |
Comedies based on Greek models and subjects |
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Created by: |
Jessica Jean Moses |
