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Who was the Greek God of Theatre |
Dionysus |
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Who was the Chorus? What did they do? |
Group of performers who sang and danced, sometimes participating in the action but usually simply commenting on it. |
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Thespis |
1st actor |
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Aeschylus |
2nd actor who played different parts wen he wore a different mask |
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Sophocles |
3rd actor meant more characters could be used in plays |
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Why was Euripides considered a more modern playwright than other Greeks? |
Sympathetic portrayal of female characters Increased realism Mixing tragedy with melodramas and comedy Skeptical treatment of gods |
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What was Greek Old Comedy? |
Makes fun of social, political, or cultural conditions and at particular figures. |
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Greek New Comedy? |
Deals with romantic and domestic situations |
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What was the main difference between Greek and Roman theatre buildings? |
Roman- free-standing, not built into hills.
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For the Greeks and Romans, know who showed violence on stage, and who talked only about it happening |
Greeks only talked about it happening Romans showed violence on stage |
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Why was Christianity against Roman theatre? |
Connection to the roman gods. Plays showed evil characters, and that may affect audiences Too much sexual content in comedies |
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What are vernacular dramas?
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They were plays that deal with stories from the Bible and Church dogma. |
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What are the two types of religious vernacular plays? How are they different? |
Morality- used religious characters and themes to teach morals. Mystery- short plays based on the Old and New Testament, organized into series or cycles |
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Who were responsible for individual play performances in town? |
Crafts guilds and religious groups |
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Who was the pageant master? |
a person who supervised the mounting of mystery plays. |
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How were wagons used in medieval theatre productions? |
Stages- they were low platform on wheels by means of which scenery is moved on and off stage. |
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Contrast Middle Ages art with Renaissance art. What did each focus on? |
Middles Ages- focused on religion and symbols Renaissance- focused on human being and realism, was a time of exploration and inventions. |
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What were early Italian Renaissance plays based on? |
Based on Greek and Roman plays |
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What are intermezzi? |
Short plays about myths They were shown between the acts of full-length plays |
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What type of theatre is commedia dell'arte |
Improvisational |
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What are stock characters? |
stereotypes that are immediately recognizable to audiences |
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What are lazzi?
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is an improvised comic dialogue or action commonly used in the Commedia dell'arte. |
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What is a slapstick? |
A wooden sward |
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What are the three unities? |
Time: action shouldn't exceed 24 hours Place: one location for the play's action Action: one central story with a small group of characters, no subplot |
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How was perspective used in scenery? |
Illusion of depth |
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What was the Teatro Franese the first theatre to use? |
First with a proscenium arch |
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What four types of work did Shakespeare write? What were they about? |
Comedies: twins, mistaken identity, girls disguising themselves as boys, fairies, etc. Tragedies: death, dramas between family members and with different families. Histories: stories about past kings on England Sonnets: poems about love. |
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Where were Shakespeare's plays produced? |
The Globe Theatre |
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Why was the stage area in Elizabethan theatre neutral? |
so the locations in the play could change quickly trap doors used |
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Where were the lower class seats?
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Stood in the yard; called "groundlings" |
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Who controlled the theatres and acting companies? |
The monarchy |
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What were masques? |
Mythical allegories that praised the monarchy; were ornate, had music and dance; began to use Italian styles of theatre and scene design |
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How did the Puritans affect theatre? |
The Puritans believed theatre was immoral and outlawed it in 1642 |
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What are soliloquys? |
A character speaking to themselves about their thoughts and feelings; can be done with actor onstage, or when there's people nearby |
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What types of theatre/areas could women act? |
Italy |
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What types of theatre used masks? |
Greeks, Romans, Commedia, Noh |
