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35 Cards in this Set
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shakes birth/ baptism
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april 1564
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death
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1616
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prose
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language not goverened by the ruses of prosody
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prosody
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the study of poetic meter and poetic form
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meter
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a rule of measurement used to structure a line of verse
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poetic foot
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the basic unit of meter
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iam
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two syllables, the fist unaccented, the second accented
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scansion
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the process of marking the meter of a line of verse
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how many quartos for richard II
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5
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folio for richard II
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1623
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tudor dynasty
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from 1485-1603
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stuart dynasty
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1603-1688
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liturgical trope
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an addition to a standard liturgical text ( church ritual) that enlarges on and acts our the events celebrated in the ritual itself
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morality play
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play that illustrates broad moral concepts. no bible or saints
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1594
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the lord chamberlain's men
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1576
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first permanent purpose-built public theater
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tiring house
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the backstage dressing area where the actors assembled
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disclosure space
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the space created by opening one of the door into the tiring house and turning it into an enclosed performance space
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Foul papers
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an author's fist draft of a play-text, so named because of the mess created by revisions
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Fair copy
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Revised copy of foul papers, can be many before a final copy
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Prompt book
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The final master copy of a play-text
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master of the revels
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An appointee of the royal court whose job it was to manage the office of entertainment
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Stationer's register
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A record book, maintained by the Stationers' company in which printers could enroll their intention to publish a particular book
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Quarto
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The standard format in which early modern printers published cheap texts of individual plays. A quarto gathering is produced by printing eight pages of type on a single printer's sheet, then folding the sheet twice and cutting the pages as necessary to produce four leaves and eight pages.
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Folio
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The largest and most expensive format for printed books, made by printing four pages of type on a single printer's sheet, then folding the sheet to create two leaves of print.
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Bad quarto
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An unauthorized, stolen, produced play-quarto.
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Terminous ante quem
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The date before which
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Terminus a quo
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the date after which
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syllabic
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a meter-form that defines lines by the set specific number of syllables the possess
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Iambic pentameter
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a line of verse containing five iam
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blank verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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metonymy
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referring to a person or object by the name of another, associated person or object
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synecdoche
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referring to a person or object by the name of a part of the very same object
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1576
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first permanent theater built
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Frons Scenae
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--Latin for "front of the scene," this phrase refers to the front wall of the tiring house, which provided the backdrop for the the thrust stage itself. The frons scenae contains two or three doors that lead from the tiring house onto the stage itself.
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