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62 Cards in this Set
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What are the first five theatres of the timeline
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Greek Theatre
Roman Theatre Elizabethan Theatre Medieval Theatre Italian Renaissance |
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What are the sixth through tenth theatres
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Neoclassical French Theatre
Commedia del Arte Restoration Drama Realism Stanislovski Theory |
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What are the eleventh through sixteenth theatres
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Symbolism
Futurism WWI Provincetown Players Surrealism Theatre of the Absurd |
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What are the seventeenth through twenty-first theatres
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Epic Theatre
Strasberg Theory and School Group Theatre Theatre of Cruelty Meisner and Neighborhood Playhouse |
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What are the twenty-second through twenty-fourth theatres
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WWII
Adler theory and school Theatre of the oppressed |
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Aspects of Greek theatre
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violence is off stage
had to write three tragic plays and comedy satire in order to get into the competition got inspiration from mythology received a laurel crown as a prize the hubris is ego or tragic flaw |
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why was theatre not allowed in london
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puritans did not like it
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significance of the black, white, and red flags
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secret to mean there was a theatre at the location
black- tragic white- comedy red-history |
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why was verbal scene painting necessary
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sets up for the audience
don't need huge set pieces limited space limited money the audience would become bored |
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Christopher Marlowe's two jobs
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Playwright
spy for the queen |
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who portrayed female characters
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men
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Thomas Kidd's play "The Spanish Tragedy" inspired which of Shakespeare's plays? What do they have in common
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Hamlet- alot of death by the end
-high number of actors |
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humours come from which latin word
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fluids
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what did humours mean for the Elizabethans
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it stood for a persons mood
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True or False: Rome was always a powerful city, governing a huge empire
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false
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what cultures did rome take over
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Europe
North Africa Middle East |
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True or false: Roman theatre was about spectacle and was only partly connected to any kind of religious philosophy
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true
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how did the romans develop their play writing
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translated greek plays into latin and adapted them
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true or false: many theatre ruins today in Greece were built by the romans
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True
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what were roman mime troupes made of
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slaves
men and women was the longest lasting roman theatre style |
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which playwright does not belong: Seneca, Sophocles, Terence, Plautus
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Sophocles
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true or false: the puritans believed that as long as a play had a good moral message about the work and purity that it was alright to go to the theatre
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false
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before it became the center of a vast emprie, rome was ruled by
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the etruscans
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possible themes for mother courage
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was as a business
virtue in wartime |
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the first tragic drams were performed in honor of which god
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dionysus
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which playwright does not belong: Seneca, Sophocles, Terence, Plautus
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Sophocles
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true or false: the puritans believed that as long as a play had a good moral message about the work and purity that it was alright to go to the theatre
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false
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before it became the center of a vast emprie, rome was ruled by
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the etruscans
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possible themes for mother courage
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was as a business
virtue in wartime |
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the first tragic drams were performed in honor of which god
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dionysus
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which playwright does not belong: Seneca, Sophocles, Terence, Plautus
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Sophocles
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true or false: the puritans believed that as long as a play had a good moral message about the work and purity that it was alright to go to the theatre
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false
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before it became the center of a vast emprie, rome was ruled by
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the etruscans
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possible themes for mother courage
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was as a business
virtue in wartime |
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the first tragic drams were performed in honor of which god
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dionysus
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which playwright does not belong: Seneca, Sophocles, Terence, Plautus
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Sophocles
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true or false: the puritans believed that as long as a play had a good moral message about the work and purity that it was alright to go to the theatre
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false
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before it became the center of a vast emprie, rome was ruled by
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the etruscans
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possible themes for mother courage
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was as a business
virtue in wartime |
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the first tragic drams were performed in honor of which god
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dionysus
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who was the first actor and playwright
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thespis
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what type of dramas did aeschylus, sophocles, and euripides write
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(greek) and tragedies
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what was aeschylus' contribution to playwriting
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he added the second character
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who wrote oedipus rex
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sophocles
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what was sophocles' contribution to playwriting
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he added the third actor
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what is a trilogy
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a series of three short plays
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who wrote american buffalo
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david mamet
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who wrote no exit
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jean paul sartre
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who wrote our town
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thorton wilder
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who wrote the hairy ape
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eugene o neill
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who wrote the childrens hour
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lilian hellman
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who wrote a view from the bridge
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arthur miller
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who wrote the marriage of bette and boo
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christopher durang
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who wrote dancing at lughnasa
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brian friel
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who wrote the dutchmen
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leroi jones...amiri baraka
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who wrote fences
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august wilson
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what did stella adler believe in
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acting from the soul
she wanted things to be real used alot of imagination pretending to walk into a room we are what we do- not what we say |
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What did lee strasberg believe in
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memory recall
method acting as if- sense memory |
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what did sanford meisner believe in
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immersion in the moment
given circumstances living truthfully under imaginary circumstances repetition |
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who wrote the raisin in the sun
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lorraine harisberry
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who wrote night mother
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masha norman
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who wrote buried child
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sam sheppard
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