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48 Cards in this Set
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Aristotle's Elements of Drama, what is different about Rome?
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plot, character, theme, language, music, spectacle; spectacle is on top for Rome
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Eric Bently
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A performs B for C
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"willing suspension of disbelief"
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Aristotle claims which two writings?
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The Poetics, The Elements of Drama
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Sophocles wrote...
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Antigone, Oedipus Trilogy
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Livius Andronicus
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translated plays from Greek to Roman
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Plautus: wrote ____, type of playwright ____, Greek or Roman?
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The Menaechmi, Comedy, Roman
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Terrance: type of playwright _____; Greek or Roman?
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Comedy, Roman
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Writer of tragedy plays
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Seneca
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Hrosvitha
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1st Roman playwright
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Aesthetic Distance
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the factor which allows us to enter into an imaginative world--even though we are aware that it is separate from everyday reality
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Punic Wars: Who, what, when?
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Romans took over Greece, 264-241 bc, 218-201 bc
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Criteria for Criticism
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1. What was the play attempting to do?
2. How well was it done? 3. Is it worth doing? |
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Put the following plays in order:
Hamlet, Antigone, Legally Blonde, Everyman, The Menaechmi |
Antigone, The Menaechmi, Everyman, Hamlet, Legally Blonde
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Lysistrata was written by _______
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Aristophanes
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The Menaechmi was written by ______
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Plautus
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Everyman was written by _____
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Anonymous
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Doctor Faustus was written by _____
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Marlowe
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The Frogs was written by ______
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Aristophanes
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What was different about the show Numacchia?
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Roman play, flooded theatre for an "ocean" with a ship.
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Leartes: Hamlet or Antigone?
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Hamlet
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Ophelia: Hamlet or Antigone?
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Hamlet
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Rosencrantz: Hamlet or Antigone?
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Hamlet
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Polonius: Hamlet or Antigone?
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Hamlet
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Claudius: Hamlet or Antigone?
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Hamlet
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Ismene: Hamlet or Antigone?
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Antigone
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Creon: Hamlet or Antigone?
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Antigone
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Haemon: Hamlet or Antigone?
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Antigone
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Henry VII wives...
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Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced beheaded, survived.
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Two Times in history when true tragedy flourished
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Ancient Greece: Antigone
Renaissance England: Hamlet |
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3 Characteristics of Comedy
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1. Suspension of natural laws
2. Contrast between individuals and social order 3. Comic premise |
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5 Characteristics of Tragedy
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1. Tragic Hero with Tragic Flaw
2. Tragic Irretrievability 3. Tragic Verse 4. The effect of tragic events |
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The Globe Theatre (4)
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1. Where shakespeare wrote and performed
2. Shows only in daylight 3. "groundlings paid" 1 penny to stand 4. Seats were arranged by wealth |
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Queen Elizabeth was known as _____
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the virgin queen (Virginia)
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Queen Elizabeth was the daughter of _____
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Henry VIII and Anne Bolyn
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Queen Elizabeth decreed _____
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no religion in theatre
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Fall of Rome
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476 AD
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Council of Carthage, what when
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398 AD no shows on holy days
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Year Hrosvitha wrote Christian Comedies
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970
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Year Everyman was produced
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1500
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Year of Magna Carta
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1215
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Fall of Constantinople
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1453
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years of the Golden Age of Roman Lit.
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58-50 bc
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Year Livius Andronicus translated Greek Drama to Rome
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240 bc
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Aristotle was born
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384 bc
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sophocles wrote oedipus
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430 bc
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Theatre of Dionysus completed
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325 bc
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Walter Kerr
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Drama critic in NYC
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