Review A Midsummer Night's Dream-Notes

A group of actors who perform several works for short periods of time.

Why did the first Globe theater burn down?

Located in the floor of the stage, for special effects

Who played the ingenue roles in Elizabethan theater?

What other event was held at the Hope Theatre, aside from plays?

In an aside:

Which of the following is NOT a genre of Shakespere's plays?

The first true theatre in London was named:

The area above the stage with rigging for special effects

What is the metrical pattern and rhyme scheme?

In this era, players (actors) and theater performances were often considered immoral and indecent.

What is the metrical pattern of these lines?

What is the source for most stock characters used in the English Renaissance?

The type of rhyme in lines 2 and 4

The people who stood in the pit to watch Shakespeare's plays:

"Call you me fair? that fair again unsay."

What is the metrical pattern of these lines?

Elizabethan theaters used numerous special effects, such as fire and blood effects.

This form of irony occurs when the audience possesses knowledge that characters do not

Literary historians think that Shakespeare wrote ____plays.

Where was Shakespeare born?

T or F? Set design and costume in Elizabethan theater matched the era of the play’s setting.

Shakespeare’s Acting Company:

T or F: Disguise and mistaken identity are conventions of Elizabethan comedy.

Area where the higher-class theatergoers sat

The vowel sound is the same, with a different consonant sound at the beginning, like: cat/hat

A work of literature that idealizes a peaceful, happy rural setting

Which is the best definition for soliloquy?

A category of character role in Renaissance theater: the older female parts

A single character talks aloud his or her inner thoughts, not within earshot of another character.

Which characters usually speak in prose in Shakespeare's plays?

In Renaissance theater: changing and resting rooms for actors, behind stage

Blank verse is:

Which of the following is NOT a convention of Shakespearean comedy?

What is the main difference between poetry and prose?

What did an actor-sharer do in an acting company?

A stock character, typically a wise jokester or trickster character, like Puck

Which of the following pairs of words is a slant rhyme?

What type of rhyme is most commonly used in A Midsummer Night's Dream?

True or False? Costumes were usually the clothes worn at that time, not usually matching the era of the play’s setting.

The theater most associated with Shakespeare:

A poem with 14 lines and a regular meter--the form used most often by Shakespeare.

Genre of A Midsummer Night's Dream:

A noble who provided money and respectability to an acting company.

Dialogue in Shakespeare’s plays often mention the time as all plays were performed in the day.