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54 Cards in this Set
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3 major playwrites
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1) Terence
2) Plautus 3) Seneca |
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Roman Festivals
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Ludi-Sept
Ludi Plebil -Nov Ludi Meglense -July Ludi Florales -April |
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Byzantine Empire
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the empire had a thriving trade, successful military, and highly developed culture, including theater
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Horswitha
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a religious leader ( a noble woman) started the theater up again, 1st woman play wright
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Pageant/wagon
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it was used to describe teh play itself, the spectacle of the plays in preformance, and also the vehicle on which the presentation was staged. a moble stage like a pariade
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Eastern Theater was called
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Noh a Japanese drama
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Noh had 3 stages
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jo
ha kyu |
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Noh plays had 5 subjects
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god
man woman insanity demon |
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Dance was fundimental to what eastern theater
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Noh
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Corpus Chrisity Play
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play in june Honors the sacriment of bread and wine
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Cycle Play
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Medieval dramas covering the "cycle" of history from the creation of the world to the doomsday.
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Miracle Play
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Medieval play treating the lives of saints
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Morality Play
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Allegorical medieval play, like everyman, that depicts the eternal struggle between good and evil that transpires in the world, using characters like vice, virture, wisdom, and so on.
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Play Everyman
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author unknow written during the mediveal period
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2nd shepards play
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is an elaboration of a single sentence form the New testament and the play was taken from Luke 2;8
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Roman Comedy's
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delt with affairs of the middle class
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most infulintal dramitst befor shakespear
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christphor marlowe
John lyly Thomas Kyd |
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Two topes of Renaissance period
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out door/public
indoor/privite |
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Shakespear made his mare in
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the Elizabethan theaters
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Audience of the Renaisssance for public theaters
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were more like the medieval ones, bu tmre urbanized and probaly more sophisticated. It did not include the poor or the very rich
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Golden Age
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The public theaters of Spain, like the English, remained essentially edieval.
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Pit
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Area of the audience on the ground floor and adjacent to the stabe
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Private Theater
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indoor theaters that were open to the public but were expensive because of their relatively limited seating capacity
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Public Theater
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Because larger than indoor theaters, public theaters tend to be relativelty inexpensive and so attracted a general audience
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Renaissance
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New birth, refers to the renewed interest in teh learning ans culture of ancient Greece and Rome.
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Corral Del Cruz & Corral del Principe
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were both outdoor theaters with thrust stages.
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Humanism
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The philosophy that believes that people should be at teh center of tehir own deepest concerns
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medieval Clutrue and theaters
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plays had strong sence of morlaity and christians
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Cultural shift
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took drama out of the church
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Medieval
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gounded in theology
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during the cultural shift the people
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had gotten away from the latin language
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Preformances were held when
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spring and summer
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two types of stages
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fixed
moviable |
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Traits of Greek theater
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associated with Greek Religion
a form of polytheism (many gods) Greek religion was both priviate and public Religion was expressed in major festivals( to a sepicific god) |
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3 festavials in Athens Grease
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1) Dionysus
2) Rural Dionysis 3) lenaia |
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Greek theaters was only preformed
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only on special occasions and festivals
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Greek theater had a
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Choral
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Corus
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a group of men who dressed alike wer masked alike, moved,sang and spoke together most of the time
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The Ritual heory
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proposes that Greek drama evolved from early religious ritual devoted tothe god Dinysus
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The Great man Theory
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some scholars propose that the apperance of tragedy and comedy arose as creative acts of human genius
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The Storytelling Theory
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the idea here is that storytellers would naturally tend to elaborate parts of the telling by impersonating teh various characters, using appropriate voice and movement
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The Dance Theory
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the idea here is that dancers first imitated the physical behavior of animals and humans
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2 playwright of Greece
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Thespis
Aeschylus |
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Thespis
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wrote tragedies using only one actor and a chorus
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Aeschylus
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probably introduced a second actory therby permitting change to occur within the play
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Sophocles
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was credited with adding thethird actor and with changing practices in scenic painting and costuming
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Euripides
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became a pacifist and political gadfly, plays less exalted and more realistic.
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Chorus
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a group of men who sang, chanted, spoke, and moved,usually in unision, and who with the actors, preformed the plays.
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Hellenstic Age
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that period of Greek history dating from teh coming of Alexander the Great
In theater architecture, those Greek theaters built during the Hellenistic period. |
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Middle comedy
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That transitional kind of Greek comedy dating form c404BCthe defeat of Athens by Sparta to 336 BC the beginning of the Hellenistic age
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Mime
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A kind of drama in which unmasked actory of both sexes portaryed often bawdy and obsscene stories
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Sanskrit Drama
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Drama of ancient India
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Terence
Publius Terentus Afer |
Slave brought over from Aferica but was freed. wrote about everyday life.
delt, with well to do and middle classes |
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Terence's plays
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The self torment
The eunuch The phormio The mother in law The brother The Girl from Andros |
