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Name of the theatre where Shakesspeare introduced his plays.
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Globe
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Role of women in Shakespearean theatre.
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None. Played by men.
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Name of people who paid the least to see the plays.
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Groundlings
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The queen in power during Shakespeare's time.
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Elizabeth 1
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System of financial support for Elizabethan theatre troupes.
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patronage
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Name of acting company for whice Shakespeare worked.
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Lord Chamberlain's Men
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Shape of the Globe Theatre.
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Round. Circular.
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Origin of shape for Elizabethan theatres.
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Inn's court yard.
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Source of stories that Shakespeare used for most of his plays, including Romeo & Juliet.
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?
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Number of plays writeen by Shakespeare.
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37
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Type of scenery used in Elizabethan theatre.
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none
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Used to signal that a play was to be performed.
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Flag
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Type of meter in which Shakespeare's plays are written.
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Iambic Pantameter
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A fourteen line poem consisting of three quatrains and one heroic couplet.
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Sonnet.
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Shakespeare's wife
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Anne Hathaway
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City Shakespeare was born in.
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Stratford on Avon.
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Type of lighting used in Elizabethan.
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Done in afternoon.
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Name for the first sonnet in Romeo & Juliet.
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?
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Type of school last attended by Shakespeare.
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Grammar.
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Satge direction an actor moves when he/she walks toward the audience.
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downstage
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Stage direction an actor moves when he/she moves to the audience 's left.
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stage right
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The part of the stage floor closest to the audience.
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Apron.
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Name for the type of theatre stage located in RHS.
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Proscenium
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Name for the type of theatre stage which justs out into the audience.
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thrust
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Year of Shakespeare's birth.
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1564
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John Shakespeare's profession.
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glove-maker and politician
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Shakes's first major play.
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Henry the Sixth
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Type of dramatic compostion that is absurd, fast-paced comedy.
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Farce
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Type of dramatic compostion represented by Romeo & Juliet.
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Dramatic compostion with shallow characters and emphasis on action.
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Name of central character in a drama.
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protagonist
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Name of character in conflict with the central character of a drama.
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antagonist
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Short comments in a play spoken for the benefit of only the audience.
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Name of god for which early theatre competitions were held.
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Dionysis
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A wedding is an example of this type of theatre.
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Ritual
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Place where theatre for pleasure originated.
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Greece
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Name of the author of Oedipus Rex
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Sophocles
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Introduced a second actor to his plays.
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Author of Lysistrata.
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Greek playwright who wrote romantic comedies.
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Third major Greek playwright who wrote tragedies about men and not gods.
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Group that revived theatre in the tenth century.
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Church
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Name for plays about the life of Christ.
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Mystery
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Name for plays about saints.
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Miracle
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Name for plays that used people to portray abstractions such as "wealth."
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Morality
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Groups that performed plays on wagons during feasts.
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Closed English theatres in 1642.
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Catholic Church
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French playwright who wrote farces.
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Moliere
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Popular form of dramatic compostion in the nineteeth century.
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melodrama
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Group in the nineteeth century that introduced a natural style of acting.
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Meiningers
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His plays established realsim as the dominant force in late nineteenth and early twentieth century theatre.
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Henrik Isben
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Name of first actor.
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Thespis
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