THEATER FINAL/ Hosking

Roman Theatre appropriated some of the ways of Greek theatre but was less religious and more about amusement.

Musicals that featured the work of director/choreographers

Musicals that feature well developed characters and plot.

EXTRAVAGANT court entertainment written for monarchs in the Renaissance era.

Italian comedies that mimicked the work of Roman mimes and were improvised farces featuring stock characters.

Dramatic Theater has actors playing characters in stories of conflict.

Domestic Tragedies & Sentimental Comedies were the most popular form of Renaissance plays.

INTERLUDES were short non-religious plays inserted in between  larger court entertainments.

Middle Ages plays about the lives of Saints.

During the Renaissance the three main categories of theater were:

Avant-garde theatre included styles created by playwrights, designers, and directors in rebellion of realism

Romantic playwrights broke the neoclassical rules such as the three unities.

Orchestra, Skene, and Theateron are parts of a Greek Theater.

Musicals that feature mostly singing with very little dialogue

1927 musical combined musical comedy and serious drama and black and white actors performed on the stage together.

The Modern Era “re-theatricalize” theatre and led to the avant-garde, Brecht’s Epic Theatre, and other experimental work

Bunraku, Kabuki, and Noh are forms of Japanese Theater.

Wrote plays filled with classical allusions and characters seeking knowledge; wrote Faustus; murdered at the age of 29. 

Euripides was the Greek playwright "never afraid to speak his mind" and wrote MEDEA.

Helped lead to the end of liturgical drama, because it allowed access to information for the masses.

_______caused people to turn away from live theater and toward it's more "real" version of entertainment.  

The three major playwrights of Greek Tragedies were

Bertolt Brecht's Epic Theater is an example of theater during the Renaissance era .

Puritans were still very much against theatre. Significant playwrights included Marlowe, Jonson, and Shakespeare.

Off-Off Broadway movement resulted largely because the Off-Broadway movement became more expensive and more commercial

Scholars believe theatre grew out of a ritual called the dithyramb, a hymn sung to the god__________. 

Corneille, Racine, Molière are playwrights of the French Renaissance era.

Believed human life , the here and now, was to be celebrated rather than worrying about salvation afterlife.

1943 landmark production included serious plot elements and well-developed characters.

Aristotle's Three Unities for playwriting included consistency of time, place, and action.

Incorporated a group of stranded Parisian ballet dancers into the show and is regarded as the first American musical.

Kathakali and Sanskrit Theater are forms of ________theater.

Term for a prop that was used by the performers in Commedia plays to "hit" each other for laughs.

Restoration actress, who specialized in performing “breeches roles.” She also became the mistress of King Charles II.

Aeschylus was often called the father of tragedy; wrote about profound spiritual and moral issues; wrote THE ORESTEIA.

Some writers felt there was too much emphasis on science and wanted to focus more on human experience, and feelings.

Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac is an example of a Greek play.

MELODRAMA was a knock-off and cheap imitation of Romanticism.

Sondheim, Hammerstein, Gershwin, Miranda are all composers in Musical Theater

In declamatory acting style of the humanist theater, the actor NEVER addresses the audience directly

Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde were...

Periaktos, Ekkyklema,Mechane are all scenography created during the Italian Renaissance.

Peking Opera is a form of Chinese Theater.

Bertolt Brecht and Samuel Beckett were Absurdist playwrights.

Theatre became much more realistic thanks to inventions such as electricity and the camera...

Humanism was an intellectual movement that grew out of 15th century ITALY & resulted in radical change in thinking.

Ritual Theater always has actors playing characters in stories of conflict.

In this time in theater history, theatre grew out of religious rituals celebrating the god Dionysus.

Daguerreotype/photography inspired the birth of realism because it allowed people a more realistic version of life.

Plautus, Terrence, and Seneca were Roman Playwrights.

In this period of theater history, significant playwrights included Plautus, Terence, and Seneca.

The Rise of Christianity meant the abandonment of  hundreds of THEATERS from Africa to England during the...

The Greek playwright considered "The Wise One" who wrote Oedipus the King.

Wanted audiences to intellectually view his plays and never forget it was a play and not reality.

Performer who stepped out of the Greek Chorus, wore masks to present individual characters; name means actor.

Precolonial, colonial, and "total" theatre are forms of African Theater.

A shift in thinking glorified humans’ power to reason and analyze. Sentimental comedy and domestic tragedy were popular.

The Roman Catholic Church virtually ended theatre threatening excommunication of those who participated in theater...

Jukebox Musicals feature the songs of a particular band.

Restoration playwright, Aphra Behn, wrote plays about sexual intrigue, loveless marriages, and satire.

Theatres began to turn to the middle class for patronage-playwrights wrote about middle class heroes during...

Began his acting career at the African Theatre in NYC in the early 1820s but faced racism and moved to Europe.

Mixed tragedy and comedy, filled his popular plays with implied sex, and many of his plays have been made into films.

Members of a religious reform movement who objected to the theater-considered it a "temptation of the devil".

The most popular form of theatre was comedy of manners. Women were finally accepted as actors and playwrights.

The emotional release, from witnessing tragedies, that evokes the feelings of PITY AND FEAR.

Mystery, Miracle, and Morality plays were performed on pageant wagons.

Often found himself in trouble with the law; first poet laureate of England; buried standing up. 

Darwin, Marx, and Freud influenced the theatrical style called___________.

In the Middle Ages, Theatre started to make a comeback, but was used mainly for religious purposes.

 Middle Ages plays about how we should conduct our life, Example: Everyman

Known as a “rebirth” and marked by renewed interest in the philosophical, artistic, and scientific ideas.