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40 Cards in this Set
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Gertrude Stein
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wrote the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
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Richard Wagner
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associated with the leitmotif.
Richard Wagner is the composer most often associated with leitmotifs |
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Commedia dell'arte
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The Italian comedy
is a professional form of theatre that began in Italy in the mid-16th century, and was characterized by masked "types", the advent of the actress, and improvised performances based on sketches or scenarios |
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Know that Macbeth
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'sold his soul' for personal/political gain
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Know that Hamlet
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dealt with betrayals on many levels
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Know that Ibsen
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wrote about strong women of his time
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Know that Baryshnikov
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was a dancer
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Know that Mercury is a statues
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with a winged Helmet and Shoes.
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Know who wrote the color purple
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Alice Walker
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Know that George Sand
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was a female writer with a male name
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Know that Christopher Wren
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designed St. Paul's Cathedral after the original burnt in the 1666 fire.
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Know the aristotle thought
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tragedy was the rise of the hero then the hero's eventual fall from the rise.
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Michelangelo
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painted the Sistine Chapel.
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Bunyan wrote
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Pilgrim's Progress.
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Aristophanes
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wrote Lysistrata.
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Rembrandt
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was a Baroque painter.
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Verdi and Puccini both composed
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Romantic period operas.
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Degas, Renoir, Monet, and Manet were all
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Impressionist painters.
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The terms fratricide and conjugal betrayal
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Hamlet
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Faust is an opera written
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by Charles Gounod however, Faust was written by Goethe
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Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev
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a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes from which many famous dancers and choreographers would later arise.
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The Hagia Sophia
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mean (Holy Wisdom), is a former Orthodox patriarchal basilica, later a mosque, now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey
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An amphora (plural: amphorae or amphoras)
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is a type of ceramic vase with two handles and a long neck narrower than the body.
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Scott Joplin
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was an African American composer and pianist, born near Texarkana, Texas, into the first post-slavery generation (King of Ragtime).
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. (wrote the nutcracker)
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Atonality
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describes music that does not use a tonal center or key
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Know that the Tempest and Mid-Summers Night Dream
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are plays in a fantasy setting.
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Know that Hamlet deals
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with fraticide, conjugal, and betrayal.
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Know that Macbeths deals
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with a heros obession for power which leads to his downfall.
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Shakespeare work
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Hamlet
Othello Romeo and Juliet King Lear Julius Caesar, I came I saw I conquered (vini, vidi, vinci) the merry Wives of Winsor The Merchant of Venice The Tempest Twelfth Night Two Gentlmen of Verona King Henry iv, v, vi, viii |
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Hamlet
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Horatio last person standing, To be or not to be, that is the question
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Othello
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Killed wife Desdemona due to Iago
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Romeo and Juliet
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Montagues and Capulets
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King Lear
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evil daughters
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Julius Caesar, I came I saw I conquered (vini, vidi, vinci)
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Caesar was killed by Brutus
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the merry Wives of Winsor
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Sir John Falstaff.
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The Merchant of Venice
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Antonio (pound of flesh, Bassanio, Portia (girl as lawyer(, Shylock -2-timer)
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The Tempest
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Prospero (former King of Naples), Ferdinand (trickster and heir), Miranda (niece), Caliban (Prospero's slave), Ariel (mischievous nymph)
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Twelfth Night
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Comedy. Orisino and Viola.
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Two Gentlmen of Verona
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Proteus and Valentine friends compete for Julia, Julia with Proteus, Sivia with Valentine
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