Intro To Theatre Test 3

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This delayed the rennaissance in England? Who won it?

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1. The War of the Roses (Civil War)

2. Henry VII

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This person founded the King's Schools (tudors schools) and had 6 wives. Whome he either divorced, beheaded, or otherwise died b/c they could not give him children?

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Henry VII

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This lead to England's break with the Catholic church in 1530?

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Henry VII's divorces

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This was the queen who was only 16 when crowned and only ruled for around 9 days?

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Lady Jane Grey

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This happened in 1517 and made the church ripe for reform?

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Lutheranism and Reformation

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When this happened in 1558 stability was restored to England and it became a serious power?

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Elizabeth crowned

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In 1558 this happened in England due to religious unrest? What was the result?

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1. Cycle plays banned

2. Created a need for a new type of theatre material

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This was considered the Golden Age of English theatre?

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The English Renaissance

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This led to exceptional theatre during the renaissance?

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1. Tudor (King's ) School Drama

2. University Wits

3. The Interlude

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This is a short entertainment done at court for special occasions and to honor important guests?

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Interlude

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The Tudor School Dramas used theatre to do this?

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Teach

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The first play written in the English language was? It was a love farce similar to Platus

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Ralph Roister Doister in 1540

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The first distinctly British style play that wasn't related to any earlier playwrights was this farce?

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Stevenson's Gammer Gurton's Needle

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These were the University Wits from Cambridge?

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1. Christopher Marlowe

2. Robert Greene

3. Thomas Nashe

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These were the University Wits from Oxford?

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1. John Lyly

2. Thomas Lodge

3. George Peele

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This was the first English language tragedy?

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Gorboduc written by Sackville and Norton

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Why was English drama unique?

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1. Examined moral and philosophical issues (had high thematic value)

2. No class and rank division at theatre (everyone went)

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During what period was there the highest percentage of attendees ever. You could see a a new play every day?

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English Renaissance

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By 1576 London has its first permanent theatre "The Theatre" built by whom?

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James Burbage

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These were the people who would pay a penny just to stand in the open yard in front of a stage?

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Groundlings

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This person played the title role in the first performances of many of Shakespeare's plays including Hamlet, Othello, Richard III, and King Lear? He had the ability to memorize anything and do it quickly.

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Richard Burbage

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English theatre was set up under this so that each member received a percentage of profits with producers getting the biggest cut, then actors, and down to even those who helped gather crowds?

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The Share System

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This person though only eligible for the Tudor schools b/c of his father's governmental position became a very famous actor and producer. He wrote comedies, then histories and tragedies? He was known for uhis use of imabic pentameter?

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William Shakespeare of Stratford Upon Avon

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Shakespeare's first play was?

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Comedy of Errors in 1589

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What was considered Shakespeare's best genre?

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Tragedies

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These people did not like Shakespeare and felt he wasn't one of them?

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The University Wits

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This means rebirth?

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Renaissance

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The new concern for people and their eathly lives become known as?

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Humanism

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Thhis advocated ethical conduct as an end in itself rather than a prerequisite to heave?

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Secularism

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What was : Red Bull, Fortune, Theatre, Curtain, Boar's Head,Red Lion, The Rose, The Glove, Playhouse at Newinton Butts, Hope and Swan?

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Public Theaters

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What was: Cockpit or Phoenix, Whitefriars, Salisbury Court, and Blackfriars?

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Private Theaters

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What were dressing rooms known as during the English renaissance?

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Tiring house

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This was the most respected Spanish playwright of the Golden Age?

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Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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The renaissance can be attributed to this b/c a city can only grow as large as its water supply. During this time it was easier to grow crops and therefor more time could be devoted to art and literature?

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Global Warming

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In 1436 the invention of the printing press by Guttenberg led to?

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1. Bible

2. Moveable type

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This was the Eastern center of learning and the Orthodox Church and in 1453 it fell to the Turks?

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Constantinople

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After Constantinople fell all of the knowlege and art was smuggled here?

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Venice

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These are plays that took the structure of ancient Greek and Roman tragedies and cleaned them up, making them more Disney like?

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Pastorals

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These were clubs that were formed in Italy to study new knowledge like a think tank and usually the project of some local prince?

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Academies

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The Camerate Academy got ahold of a fragment of Euripides with some dots on it, maybe music notes and this led to?

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Opera

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The Italians determened that Greek theatre was performed this way?

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Sung not spoken

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These were performed indoors and led to competions to be the biggest, best, most elaborate. They were also the first to use artificial light?

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Court Dramas

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In Italy theatre was on for this group?

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The upper-class

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The rediscovery of perspective led to this?

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Italianate or painted perspective scenery

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Italian theatre design incorpated these?

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1. Wings

2. Drops

3. Proscenium to hide machinery

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These wwere breaks (playlets) that allowed spectacle and change of scenery?

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Intermezzi

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This theatre in Italy had the first proscenium arch?

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Theatro Farnese

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Learned theatre in Italy (aka court/academy theatre) was known as?

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Erudita

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This was develped to satisfy the demand for spectacle during scneary changes b/c they could not folow the unity of time or place?

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Intermezzi

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This person was part of a very wealthy family in Italy whose image was used to depict Jesus in art?

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Cesare Borgias

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This person wrote the first manual for constructing theatrical sscenes and machines?

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Nicola Sabbattini

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Sabbattini use this? It was a piece of cloth painted like the rest of the scene and could be attached to the bottom of the unity to hide the gap created by the slop of the stage floor?

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Raked Stage

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This was known as the comedy of artists and adopted by the masses. It was actor centered and improvisational in nature?

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Commedia Dell Arte

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Commedia was performed where?

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In many spaces: streets, homes, theaters, etc.

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Each comedia company had this?

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stock characters

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In comedia these people usually triumphed?

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Servants over nobles

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In comedia the lovers were different how?

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Wore no masks

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In comedia this person was wealthy, greedy, and had a sole focus on money?

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Pantalone, merchant

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In comedia this person was a lawyer or doctor?

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Dottore

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In comedia this person was the cowardly braggart solider?

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Capatino

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In comedia this was the trickster, servant, who hatched plots to reunite lovers?

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The zanis

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In comedia this person dressed in diamond shaped patches and was a trickster and classified as one of the zanis?

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Arlecchino (aka Halequin)

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In commedia this ia predetermined interaction b/w characters or a piece of business (who's on first) thrown in as the occasion arose?

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Lazzi

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In Comedia this is slapstick or can be characterized by bladder (slapstick to mimic the sound of beatings usingan inflated animal bladder)?

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Batte

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In commedia this is when the ploy is discovered after the lovers have escapted, got married, etc. and the professionals have been duped, leading to the zani being beaten with battes?

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Bombastino

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This means truth seeming?

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Verisimilitude

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This means new classicism?

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Neoclassicism

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This in scenery is when allobjects recede to the same vanishing point?

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Single-Point Perspective

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Neoclassicism is considered a return to this?

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Greek and Roman culture

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This says that a play should have one main action that it follows with no or few subplots?

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Unity of Action

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This says that a play should cover a single physical space and should not attempt to compress geography, nor should the stage represent more than one place?

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Unity of Place

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This says that the action in a play should take place over no more than 24 hours?

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Unity of Time

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This person did not follow the unities?

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Shakespeare

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In frant this met to attemt to reform the church and shore up Catholic ties lessening the influence of Martin Luther?

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Council of Trent

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The Council of Trent adopted the work of this person who reconciled Aristotle with church doctrine and led Aristotle to become the final authority for literary questions?

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Thomas Aquinas

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Theatre during the Neoclassic period was defined by?

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1. Genre separation

2. Following of unities

3. Five act format

4. Theatre should entertain and teach

5. Verisimilitude

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The 3 goals of verisimilitude include?

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1. Reality

2. Moral lesson

3. Abstraction or generality is the key to truth. One examination of a group member will yield the truth about all members

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In Neoclassicism comedy teached through this? tragedy through this?

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1. Ridicule

2. Punishment

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In neoclassicism comedy focused on this group of people? tragedy on these?

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1. Lower classes

2. Nobility

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In neoclassicism this became a substitute for moral qualities?

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Rank

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Medieval France had cycle plays and this group had a monopoly for their production?

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Brotherhood of the Passion

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In 1548 France banned cycle plays but the Brotherhood gained this place that allowed it to be rented to acting troupes?

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Hotel de Bourgogne

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French neoclassic theatre had these influences?

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1. Italian

2. Anti-protestant

3. Anti-reformation (keep Catholic king on throne via de Medici family).

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This was established in 1629 (still exists) to deal with the issues of literature and language and adpots the idead of Verisimilitude from the Council of Trent?

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French Academy

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The French Academy would decide this regarding theatre?

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If they were worthy of patronage

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This was the first Italiante theatre in France and led to France having a court theatre similar to Italy?

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Palaise Royal

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The de Medici wives brought this to France because they were homesick?

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Commedia

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This person founded the Theatre Illuste with the Bejart family and saw many failures including being sent to debtors prison?

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Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (aka: Moliere)

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What King interviened to allow Moliere a Catholic burial?

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Louis XIV (Sun King)

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During this period actors were highly respected, sought after bythe best people and lived in expensive city house?

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Elizabethan

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After Elizabeth this person became king and he was fond of this type of theatre that catered to the very wealthy and led to common theatre becoming bloody and sensational, revenge driven. It had tighter plots, better expoision, but lack the thematic value of the past?

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Masques

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This led to all theaters being close after the Elizabethan era?

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Plague

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This person was trained as an architect and designed scenery for court masques? He introduced the proscenium arch to England and popularized moveable scenery. He was also known to aruge with Gen Jonson about whether stage design or literature was moreimportant in theatre?

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Inigo Jones

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This King was pro-Catholic and his views, especially over prayer book in Scotland led to a civil war?

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Charles I

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The Civil War between Charles I (Catholics) and the Purtians/Middle Class was led by what person on the Puritian side? Who wins?

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1. Charles Cromwell

2. see above

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By 1629 this had occured in England and was actually done by a French company and led to them being hissed off stage?

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First woman in a production

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ON 9/6/1642 the Puritan Interregnum led to this? Again on 1647 and then a third time

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All theatres being closed

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During the Puritan Interregnum an actor was treated this way?

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1. First offense whipped

2. second treated as an incorrigible rogue

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During the Puritan Interregnum anyone witnessing a play had this happen?

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Fined 5 shillings

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During the Puritian Interregnum this person was appointed whose duty it was to seize all ballad singeers and suppress all stage-plays?

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Provost Marshal

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In 1656 The Siege of Rhodes was staged and it got around the Puritan Interregnum by saying it was this?

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An opear

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After Cromwell's death he was replaced with whom?

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His son Richard

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People tired of Richard and resented Cromwell for executing Charles I in 1649 after 7 years in jail. They created a delegation that wen tto Paris and asked this person to take control? This led to?

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1. Charles II

2. Restoration Theatre

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This person was known as the Merrie Monarch?

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Charles II

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Charles II started two acting companies:

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1. King's Company (led by Thomas Killigrew)

2. Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

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During Charles II's reing these things happened?

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1. Wife Catherine was barren but had 12 children with other women.

2. Great Plague of London, 1665

3. Great Fire of London, 1666

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This character was a suave ladies main who loves em and leaves em?

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Restoration Rake

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During the Restoration tragedies were re-written to conform to this?

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Neoclassic Ideal

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One of the most famous restoration comedies was?

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The Country Wife by William Wycherley

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Restoration comedies were known for this? What kind of audience?

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1. Sexual explicitness

2. Aristocrats, their servants, middle-class

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This period led to the birth of celebrities?

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Restoration

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Who was the first professional woman playwright?

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Aphra Behn

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This period saw the real introduction of Actresses?

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Restoration

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Who was the famous actress who was also the mistress of Charles II. She bore him two sons, Charles Beauclerk and James Beauclerk?

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Nell Gwynn

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How did Nell meet Charles II?

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Worked for Orange Moll selling oranges with older sister Rose. Orange girls delivered notes for hookups. She decided to be an actress so she could get the hookup. Duke of Buckingham was to introduce her to King. He failed, she took it into her own hands.

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What was the first play Nell Gwynn appeared in?

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John Dryden's The Indian Emperor

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Who became King after Charles II? Then after him?

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1. James II (Catholic)

2. William and Mary (via bloodless revolution)

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In 1698 there was a low comedy backlash led by this publication of this?

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Jeremy Collier's "A Short View ". Leads to end of Restoration Theatre.

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In France these were plays written specifically to exploit the new scenery?

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Machine Plays

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Another famous playright in France in addition to Moliere was?

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Jean Racine who wrote Phedre

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French culture shifted toward conservatism adopting a set of values now called?

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Sentimentalism

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Moving the vanishing point away from the center and toward the side is known as?

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Angle Perspective

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These are plays who witty dialogue and sophisticated sexual behavior reflect the highly artificial aristocratic society are known as?

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Comedies of Manners

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These combined elements of commedia, farce, mythology, and contemporary satire with elaborate scenes of spectacle in shory afterpieces?

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Pantomimes

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This was Moliere's first wife? 2nd wife and first wife's sister?

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1. Madeline

2. Armanda

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What was the most shocking part of School for Wives among the French?

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Arnolphe giving Agnes the book "The Secrets of Marriage" because it was written in the style of scrupture. Viewed as mocking religion.

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What is meant when it is aid "she'll furnish you with horns"?q

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Wife will cheat on the husband. Making him a cuckhold.

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The age of enlightenment saw this?

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1. Learning and Philosophy

2. Scientific method

3. Observation and analysis

4. Objective truths

5. Universal standards

6. Reason replaces faith

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The social and political background during the Enlightenment saw:

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1. Global community

2. Greater religious tolerance

3. Wars were territorial and economic

4. Rising middle class

5. Enlightened despots

6. Hope and despair: revolutions

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These focused on middle class and puritan values and attached restoration drama. The focused on poetic justice and morals?

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Sentimental Comedy

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Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, The Marriage of Figaro and the Barber of Seville were examples of?

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Laughing Comedy

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This person pioneered domestic tragedy and comedy with virture. He also introduced the paradox of acting (illusion of reality? What did he write?

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1. Denis Diderot

2. Encyclopedie

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This person wrote plays in German and was key in bringing Shakespeare back. He reaffirmed the structure of classical theatre. Emphasized the importance of middle class. Used English over French models (thought Aristotle was misuderstood. What did he write?

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1. Gotthold Lessing

2. Miss Sara Sampson

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This genre was Lessing inspired. Focused on variety and shock value. Broke all neoclassical rules and cannonized Shakespeare. Begin in Germany as a reaction to French influence?

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Sturm and Drang (Storm and Stress)

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This was a precursor to Romanticism?

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Sturm and Drang

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The Enlightenment saw the audience experiencing this?

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1. New plays every day

2. Increase in middle class audience

3. Plays lasting 3-5 hours and including music and dance

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An example of how theatres grew during the Enlightenment is?

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Drury Lane it grew from 650 in 1700, 2,000 in 1770 and 3,000 in 1800

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Theaters in Enlightenment were this shape? Why?

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1. Oval

2. Acoutistics

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In scenery these have multiple vanishing points and ground rows?

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Bibienas

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During the enlightenment for the first time actors had interpretation effect on these and they experimented with historical accuracy?

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Costumes

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During enlightenment this person promoted the "natural" style, study of character, and study of life to inform character? He also re-wrote Shakespeare, established rehearsal discipline, banished spectators from stage, and experiments with historical accuracy.

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David Garrick

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This genre was short lived and focused in improbably plots, unbelievable characters?

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Romanticism

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This play caused the only known theatre riot?

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Victor Hugo's 'Harnani"

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These were some connections to Commedia that School for Wives had?

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1. Servants were zanis (and indirectly assisted couple to be together)

2. Arnolphe was a form of a Pantalone

3. The couple wins over the older noble

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Romanticism focuced on these?

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1. Rebellion

2. Art

3. Nature

4. Anti-industrialism

5. Uniqueness

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Plays written to be read, not performed are?

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Closet Dramas

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Richard Wagner established a classless system removing box seats, etc. called?

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Continental Seating

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On stage this is the imitation of a room with side walls rather than wings?

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Box set

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This group objected to may practices of commercial mainstream and said there were no stars in their group. Each member of the company was eligible to play any role?

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Saxe-Meiningen's

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This person pioneered free theatre in France with the introduction of the Theatre Libre?

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Andre Antoine

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This person launched Realism as a major artistic movement?

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Henrik Ibsent (A Doll's House/Hedda Gabler)

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Gerhart Hauptmann and Maxim Gorky were the most famous playwright of this genre?

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Naturalistic Playwrights

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This group objected realism and said it wasn't theatrical, it was dull, and had to struggle to be realistic?

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Avant-Gardism

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Adolphe Appia and Gordon Craig were key against moving this group against realism?

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stage designers

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This person is often called the father of modern drama?

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Henrik Ibsen

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This was a style that sought to capture fleeting moments of awareness that were believed to constitute the essence of existence?

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Impressionism

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This was style that believed that the truths of life could not be expressed directly but only in metaphorical and allusive manner?

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Symbolism

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This usually focused on political and social questions in a stage world close to nightmare?

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Expressionism

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Eugene O'Neill and Arthur miller were considered these types of playwrights?

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Realistic

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This was a training system and performance style for actors based on an industrial theory of work? It was a part of this theatre period that occurred from 1920-1935?

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1. Biomechanics

2. Constructivism

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Bertold Breacht brought about the concept of theatre educating citizens by making a controversial topic easier to consider?

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Epic Theatre

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Antonin Artaud used a number of techniques. He seeked to bombard the senses and used light and sound. Scenery was subservient to other elements of production. Actors encouraged to use bodies.This was known as?

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Theatre of Cruelty

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This was an avant-garde tendency in stage design that favored simplified, sometimes abstract settings; nonrealisim, lighting as major design component and alternatives to the proscenium stage?

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New Stagecraft

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This was one of the main characters who was older and had adopted the female main character. He had servants and was mean and his goal was to marry the adoptee?

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Arnolphe

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This was the adopted girl who recently moved in with her caretaker but fell in love with someone else?

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Agnes

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This was the son of Oronte who fell in love with the female protagonist?

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Horace

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These were the two bumbling servants of Arnolphe?

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Alain and Georgette

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This was the friend of Arnolphe who was Henri's brother in law and Agnes' uncle?

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Chrysalde

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What was the new name that Arnolphe took? Why?

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1. Monsieur de la Souche

2. He thought it to be more sophisticated

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What did Agnes give Horace that belonged to Arnolphe?

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A handkerchief

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What is the book Arnolphe gives Agnes to read?

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The Secrets of Marriage or the Maxims of A Dutiful Wife

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Where was this adaption of Moliere's School for Wives originally performed?

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The City Garage in Los Angeles