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The "proscenium arch" is associated with which stage arrangement?
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Endstage
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What does the word "blocking" mean in the context of play production?
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Setting actors' movements on stage
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During which century did the first modern stage directors appear?
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1800s
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Directors frequently select a metaphor, thematic idea, symbol, or allegory that will be central to the whole production. This is called:
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The production concept
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Who uses gobos in his design?
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LIght Designer
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What duty is conventionally not assigned to directors?
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Arranging publicity for the show
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Imagine six actors arranged as follows: five actors stand close to each other upstage right; the sixth stands downstage left. Assuming that they all occupy the same level and face front, which pulls focus?
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The individual downstage left
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theatre derives from theatron which literally means?
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seeing place
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The story of Archimedes illustrates the principles of which theorist of creativity, Brewster Ghiselin or Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi?
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The story of Archimedes illustrates the principles of Ghiselin
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Who owns the copyright in a play?
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The playwright
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Who generally owns the copyright in a film?
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The producer
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Your book identifies this person as the "primary artist" in the theatre.
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Playwright
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Is method acting an example of "inside/out" acting technique, or is it an example of "outside/in" acting technique?
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Inside/out
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What is "sitting on the apron"?
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A downstage part of the stage
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This is the name of the artist who typically works most closely with the dramaturg
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director
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This is the name of the Greek philosopher who wrote the Poetics, the first systematic analysis of theatre productions.
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Aristotle
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Who is in charge of financing a theatre production?
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The producer
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A director will divide the dialogue into these units to understand the play moment-by-moment: they can be as small as a single unit of thought. What are these units called?
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beats
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A line of dialoge has two levels: what the character says, and what the character means. What term is conventionally used to refer to "the hidden meaning behind the words" spoken by a character?
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Subtext
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Your book defines conflict using this formula: desire + ______ x lack of compromise = conflict. What goes in the blank?
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obstacle
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According to Paula Vogel, what is the central theme of How I learned to Drive?
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One must forgive to move on
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Konstantin Stanislavsky co-founded which of the following theatres?
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The Moscow Art Theatre
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The ability to understand and identify with another's situation to the extent of experiencing that person's emotions is conventionally called:
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Empathy
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Stanislavski's breakthrough came when he finally understood that an actor can believe an imagined truth "as sincerely and with greater enthusiasm than he can believe a practical truth." The phrase that describes this imaginative act is:
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The magical "if"
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If you wanted to attend a traveling Broadway show in the Denver/Boulder area, where would you go?
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The Temple Buell Theatre in the Denver Center for the Performing Arts
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What is the best definition for a "French scene"?
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A scene that begins with the entrance of a character and ends with the exit of a character
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What are Goethe's three steps for play analysis?
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What is the artist trying to say?
How well has the artist done it? Is it worth doing? |
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When an actor thinks back over a certain incident in his/her life and remembers it well enough to relive the accompanying emotions, it is called...
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emotional memory
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True or False: George Coates is a well-known "interpretive director"
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FALSE
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This is the position title for the person who is responsible for running the show during the performance and helping the director during the rehearsal process by taking notes, recording blocking, scheduling rehearsals, etc
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The stage manager
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Name of the union that represents professional stage actors:
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Actor's Equity Association
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This is the term given in the Poetics to the "arrangement of fictional events" in a play.
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Plot
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Is Daniel Day-Lewis's technique of acting more "inside/out" or "outside/in"?
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Inside/out
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Term given by your textbook to "digital actors" whose performance is shaped by the combination of a live actor's movement and computer-generated enhancement.
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Synthespians
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You have a friend who wishes to become an actor. You say, "Why? The median salary for SAG actors is so low!" What is SAG an acronym for?
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Screen Actors Guild
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True/False. Although salaries for actors are low, their social status is very high; in fact, throughout history, acting has been considered an extremely respectable profession.
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False.
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What image guides Oliver's production concept of How I learned to Drive?
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The Flying Dutchman
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Peter Brook's 1970 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream was set in a large white box and the actors hung from trapezes. This is an example of:
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A concept production
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True/False. According to Csikszentmihalyi, persons experience "flow" when they put all of their attention on what others are thinking of them.
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False
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True/False. According to Brewster Ghiselin, the moment of "aha" is followed by a conscious and labor-intensive elaboration of the creative insight.
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True
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Who "papers the house"?
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Administrative team
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The term "environmental staging" refers to what?
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Plays in which actors and audience share the same space
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This term refers to "the audiences's ability to remove themselves from a work of art just far enough that they can contemplate it."
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Aesthetic Distance
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In which theatre arrangement is one most likely to find a fly system?
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Proscenium arch stage
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What was "re-born" during the Renaissance?
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Classical learning
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Approximately when were "the Dark Ages"?
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476-1000CE
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Your textbook identifies this theatrical development with the Middle Ages 1000-1200
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Liturgical drama
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Following the invention of the printing press, Christianity splintered into many different groups (sects). This split is characterized by Western historians as:
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A split between Catholics and Protestants
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A friend of yours returns from New York. She says she saw every single Broadway play running. Question: did your friend see more musicals or straight plays?
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Musicals
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Approximately what was the total number of people who could see a play at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre?
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2,500-3,000
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Where is the Globe Theatre located?
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South of the walled city of London. Over a bridge over the river Thames.
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Would Go Lysistrata! qualify as a book musical?
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Yes.
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This is the name of the work that revolutionized musical theatre by being the first to combine "a consequential plot, powerful dialoge, three-dimensional characters, and songs and dances that tied directly to the plot."
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Showboat
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True/False. Aristophanes was tutor to Alexander the Great.
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False
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True/False. Sophocles's daughter was the first to play the role of Antigone, in his tragedy of that name.
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False
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Imagine that you are a time-traveler and attend the first production of a play of the following description: A grown man named HUMANITY wears a soiled shirt. He is approached by a series of characters named PRIDE, SLOTH, GLUTTONY, and GREED. They invited him to join them, but he refuses. In the end, a character namd HOLY SPIRIT arrives and gives him a clean white shirt. This performance event takes place indoors, between courses of a banquet. Based on the information, where and when were you?
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in Europe of the High Middle Ages
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What kind of play have you witnessed?
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A morality play
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True/False. Given his dark magic powers, Dr. Faustus can make Mephistopheles do anything that he commands, even if it is against Lucifer's will.
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False
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Where is hell according to Mephistopheles?
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Wherever Mephistopheles is
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Imagine that you are a time traveler, and you witness the first production of a play of the following description. The actors play outdoors, in the central square of a town, on a wooden stage. The featured characters include a comic servant, a stingy old merchant, and a pair of lovers. All but the lovers wear masks. Where and when are you?
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In Renaissance Italy
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What kind of play have you witnessed?
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Commedia dell'arte
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True/False. It is an embarrassing fact of theatre history that the first official musical, The Black Crook, told a racist story about a black man accused of a series of robberies that he did not commit.
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False
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What are some similarities shared by Lysistrata and Noah and His Sons?
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Both were originally performed in the context of a civic/religious festival and both feature strong women who physically punish their husbands.
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The Greek word orkhestra originally meant what?
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Dancing place
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Which was more influential in the theatre world of ancient Rome, old comedy or new comedy?
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New comedy
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The term "Jim Crow" was originally associated with...
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A famous minstrel show performer
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True/False. Aristotle was the first philospoher to promote the idea that all persons deserve equal political rights, becuase he believed that "all persons are created equal."
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False
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How many tragedies total were performed over the course of the 7 day long City Dionysia in Athens?
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Nine
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True/False. As we can see in Noah and His Sons, the Wakefield Master was one of the first playwrights to use the verse form "iambic pentameter" to great dramatic effect.
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False
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You are a time traveler. You put yourself in the time machine and find yourself someplace you do not recognize. A man introduces himself as a humanist and invites you to tour an indoor theatre with a permanent proscenium arch. "Such theatres are all the rage these days," he says. "You can find them in the palaces of all the local princes." Where and when are you?
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Renaissance Italy
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What time period/where are you if you are in a large outdoor theatre made of stone. It can seat 17,000 and has a huge curved portico over 600 feet long. The audience is protected from the sun by a huge linen awning.
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The Roman Empire
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True/False. Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Fausus adheres to the three unities of time, place, and action.
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False
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In Noah and His Sons, Noah is shown to be a man of God because he builds the ark that God commands, despite the objections of:
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His wife
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When approximately did Hrozvitha live?
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During the Dark Age
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What are the approximate dates of the "Enlightenment"?
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1670-1800
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This is the name of the movement in the United States beginning in the late 1950s that gave avant-garde playwrights a place to stage their works.
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Off Broadway
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This is the name of the movement in the US beginning in the late 1960s that gave avant-garde playwrights a place to stage their works
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Off Off Broadway
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This is the name of the seventeenth century English philosopher who maintained that if one "begins with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."
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Francis Bacon
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Which came first, the Renaissance or the Enlightenment?
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Renaissance
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Which came first, the invention of the proscenium arch or the Stuart Court masque?
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proscenium arch
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Which came first, the Stuart Court masque or the Enlightenment?
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The Stuart Court masque came first.
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Think about the moment in A Doll House when Nora sits down with her husband to discuss seriously their marriage for the first time in seven years. Identify this moment in terms of the "formular plot".
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part of the denouement
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Where and when was the proscenium arch invented?
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In Italy, in the late 1500s
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What thinkers influenced the development of realism as a literary/theatrical form?
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Karl Marx and Charles Darwin
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