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35 Cards in this Set
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proscenium
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ground
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spene
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background
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chorus
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dithyramb
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hymn to Dionysus(a god)
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thespis
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lead singer (after father of tragedy)
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Oracle
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priest(ess) spoke on behalf of the gods
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bacchae
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(maenads) woman worshippers of dionysus(Greek god of wine and fertility)
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Prometheus
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stole fire from the sun and gave top human(supposedly made first human from clay)
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Morality Play
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Everyman (15th century)
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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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King Lear
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evil daughters
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Oscar Wilde
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the Importance of Being Earnest, Ideal Husband, Lady Windemere's Fan, A Woman of no Importance
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Edmund Rostand
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The Romancers, The Woman of Samaria, Chanticler, Cyrano De Bergerac
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Jean Baptiste Moliere
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b. 1622, French, comedies, poked fun at intellectuals: The Doctor in Spite of Himself, Sganorelle, George Dandin, The Learned Woman, The School For Husbands, The School for Wives
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Samuel Beckett
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1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, Waiting for Godot, Endgame
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Eugene O'Neill
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A Long Day's Journey into Night, Strong Interlude (Pulitzer prize), The Iceman Cometh, Mourning becomes Electra (based on Oresteria)
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Eugene Ionesco
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absurdity of the proletariet and the Borgiouse, the Bald Soprano, La Lecon, Les Chaises, Rhinoceros
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Tennessee Williams
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A Streetcar named Desire (pulitzer 1947), The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Night of the Iquana, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop here anymore, The 7 Descents of Myrtle, In the Bar of the Tokyo hotel, Small Craft Warning
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Sophocles
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Oedipus Rex(father King Laius), Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, 497 BC, – 406 BC, Greek tragedians
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Aeschylus
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Oresteria - Agamemnon, The Cloephoroe, The Eumenides; Prometeus Bound (never found 2nd and 3rd parts to trilogy)(525 BC—456 BC,Greek tragedians
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Aristophenes
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(satire) Lysistrada, The Clouds (re:Socrates), the Wasps,448 BC – c. 385 BC) was a Greek Old Comic
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Lorraine Hansberry
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A raisin in the Sun, The Sign in Sidney Brusteins Window
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Pierre Cornielle
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(17th century)Le Cid, Cinna, Polyeucte
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A Doll's House, Ghosts, Enemy of the People
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Henrik Ibsen
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Helen of Troy, Tyndareus( surrogate father), Paris, Menelaus, Tojan War
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Henrik Ibsen
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Euripides
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Alcestis, Medea, Electra, and The Bacchae, c. 480–406 BCE Greek tragedians
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Romeo and Juliet Montagues and Capulets
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Shakespeare
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Julius Caesar, I came I saw I conquered(vini, vidi, vinci)
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Shakespeare
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the merry Wives of Winsor
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Shakespeare
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The Merchant of Venice Antonio(pound of flesh, Bassanio, Portia (girl as lawyer(, Shylock
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Shakespeare
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the Tempest Prospero (former King of Naples), Ferdinand (trickster and heir), Miranda (niece), Caliban (Prospero's slave), Ariel (mischievous nymph)
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Shakespeare
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Twelfth Night Viola (as man), Olivia (like Him/her), Sebastion (presumed dead brother)
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Shakespeare
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Two Gentlmen of Verona Proteus and Valentine friends compete for Julia, Julia with Proteus, Sivia with Valentine
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Shakespeare
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King Henry iv, v, vi, viii
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Shakespeare
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