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Canterbury Tales
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14th c. England
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Breeches Roles
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women dressed as men
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double entendre
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something that has a double meaning
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"British Blondes"
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Lydia Thompson; American Burlesque
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Tony Pastor's "polite" variety shows
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1881-family friendly vaudeville
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first to build empire of vaudeville theatre
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B.R. Keith
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Orpheum circuit
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theatres linked together; would book acts that comes through all the theatres
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small time
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performing more for less money in converted spaces
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medium time
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2 times a day in purpose-built theatres
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big time
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longer runs; thousands of dollars per performance; big city theatres
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"Jump Jim Crow"
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T.D. Rice 1830; Minstrelsy
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Entr'e Acts
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intermission performance
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first black american minstrel troupe (date)
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1855
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First Black minstrel performers
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William Henry Lane and Thomas Dilward
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Vaudeville performer who used blackface
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Bert Williams
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walkabout
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song and dance procession; semi-circle
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Olio
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variety show; stump speech
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afterpiece
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large one act; Tom Show-usually portrayed slave life as happy
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Uncle Tom
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someone who is older and very loyal to his master
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Sambo
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happy, dancing, playing music, never wanted to work
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Zip Coon
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did stump speech; tries to integrate himself into white culture and looks like buffoon; dresses up in tux and gives speech that sounds like nonsense
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Mammy
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large black women who was a nanny to white children; very dark; happy to take care of everyone; desexualized
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Tragic Mulatto
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light skinned; hypersexual women who usually died at end
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Pickanniny
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little black children that are wild and crazy; portrayed animal-like
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Ntozake Shange
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attended recently de-segregated school
parents exposed to numerous black artists depression led to suicide attempt |
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The Jazz Aethetic
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Joni Jones/Omi Osun Olomo
new way to describe "what is a black play/what is playing black" |
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Choreopoem
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combining dance and language in context
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"for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf"
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1975; Ntozake Shange
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"Three Plays for the Negro Theatre"
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1917 Ridgely Torrence
first piece of american theatre to accurately present black characters (no stereotypes) |
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"A Raisin in the Sun"
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1959 Lorraine Hansberry
blacks bought house in traditional white neighborhood; neighbors tried to throw them out |
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"Dutchman"
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1964 Amiri Baraka
young black man is seduced and murdered by seductive white woman |
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Amiri Baraka
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founded Spirit House Theatre (all black) 1966
single-handedly started Black Arts Movement and the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School "Dutchman" (1964) |
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Hispanic
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people from Spain/peninsula/not a race
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Latino/a
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from Latin America
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Chicano/a
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people specifically Mexican descent who were born in the US/race
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Tejano/a
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anyone of either Mexican or Latin American descent living in Texas
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El Teatro Campesino
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1965 original members were all farmers, staging events from their daily lives; founded by Luis Valdez
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Luis Valdez
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"father of Chicano theatre"
founded El Teatro Campesino first Chicano on Broadway |
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"Zoot Suit"
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1978; Luis Valdez; blend events of Sleepy Lagoon murder trial with 1940s Zoot Suit Riots
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"Pachucos"
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specific identity
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Agit-prop theatre
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theatre advocating for social change; combination of agitation and propaganda
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New York Theatre Strategy
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1972; experimental space owned by playwrights; Maria Irene Fornes
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"Fefu and her Friends"
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1977; Maria Irene Fornes
splits audience in 4 groups and rotate scenes |
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Cherrie Moraga
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Chicana Lesbian
Kitchen Table Press "A Bridge Called My Back" "Heroes and Saints" (1994) Spanglish |
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"Heroes and Saints"
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1994 Cherrie Moraga
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Kitchen Table Press
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first publishing house dedicated to publishing women of color
Cherrie Moraga |
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People of The Renaissance
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Martin Luther and the Reformation
Edmund Spenser and John Milton Queen Elizabeth I |
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The Red Lion
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1567 First Renaissance Theatre
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The Theatre
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1576; became The Globe 1599
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Christopher Marlowe
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1564-1593; "Dr. Faustus" 1592; Shakespeare Contemporary
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John Webster
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1580-1634; "The Duchess of Malfi" 1612; Shakespeare contemporary
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Ben Johnson
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Shakespeare's contemporary; "Volpone" 1599
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"Much Ado About Nothing"
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1598
first recorded performance in 1613 at Princess Elizabeth's wedding |
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"early" medieval
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500 AD to 1000 AD; The Dark Ages
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"high" medieval
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1000 AD to 1400 AD
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"late" medieval
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1300 AD to 1500 AD
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Fall of Rome
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476 C.E.
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"Quem Quaeritis"
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915; first religious play about rising of Jesus; in latin
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Saint's Plays
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plays about lives of saints; not directly taken from Bible
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"Everyman"
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morality play
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Miracle Plays
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miracle of Christ; outside of church
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Hrosvitha
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935; first individual playwright; female; nun
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Mikhail Bakhtin
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Russian literary critic
"Safety valve" theory-explains Carnival as time of release of social pressure |
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Order of Shakespeare's Plays
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Histories, Comedies, Tragedies, Romances
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number of Shakespeare's works
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38 plays
154 sonnets 2 long narrative poems |
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Shakespearean Actors
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1. Richard Burbage – Actor, Manager of a theatre group, Shareholder.
2. William Kempe – Comedian 3. Robert Armin – Comedian |
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Quarto
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Actors version of the play
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Folio
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the official version with Shakespeare’s notes
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3 Parts of Minstrel Show
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1. Walk about
2. Olio 3. Afterpiece |
