Medieval Ages Theater Review

During the middle ages, theatre was an intimate experience between the actors and the audience.

Which choice was NOT a reason for the decline of Medieval Theater?

Interludes were long plays performed during noble dinner parties.

Which medieval period most commonly featured traveling actors?

What was the most famous Morality play that still exists today?

The first type of play to use professional actors was?

Early Medieval theatre was considered to be religious not ______

Plays that were based on the lives of the saints were called _________.

The most feared disease of the middle ages

Allegories can be read at both a literal or a figurative level.

What system required the serfs to work for the land owners?

What was the main governing force in the Middle Ages?

Mystery plays had both COMEDIC & SERIOUS elements?

What type of plays were performed in cycles?

The official language of this time was? Most all written works were composed in this.

What traveling stage did actors use to perform on and use as a costume changing area?

Longer secular plays ridiculing such human follies as greed and dishonesty

These groups helped to produce plays as part of their religious duty

Liturgical dramas incorporated religious rituals and were performed by:

What code did knights live by?

Special effects were used to create elaborate scnes such as the flood or Heaven and Hell

Plays about pagan legends and myths

Who were also added as the actors in the later Middle ages?

What plays taught lessons about leading a Christian life?

Plays that were based on Biblical stories were called _________.

The first short plays were called

Early medieval actors would perform at _______ and ______ (Pick 2)

What type of plays were becoming popular by the end of the middle ages?

Liturgical Drama was religious drama that extended outside church in what?