Theatre History I

What country started using masks onstage?

Two original types of plays created by the Greeks

Opera and essentially the first musicals were started in

The first theatre type in Greece was what type of theatre?

Stock characters are introduced in what country?

The oldest theatre artifact was found in _____________ around 2000B.C.

The first Shakespeare play ever performed

Thespis was the first person to

These plays used allegory to teach a moral lesson

What is on this logo that was also created by the Chinese?

Who were the first people that put women onstage for the first time in history

Shakespeares plays are the commonly performed because

A playwright who's plays are the most commonly performed worldwide

This type of Greek Comedy had universal themes that translated well into other languages

Improvisation was created in

Plays that were used to criticize the social situation

Who borrowed most of their methods of theatre including their actors in their productions?

Also known as restoration theatre

A large variety of acts that were unrelated to each other

In Italy they explored the inner motives of a human being which was called

Christmas and Easter plays were originally performed in

_________Greek comedy that completely eliminated the chorus

Greek comedy that was used to impersonate famous political figures

The period of theatre in which Shakespeare wrote his plays

Random dynamic spectacles to shock the audience or solicit some other form of emotion

A play in which the heroic character, who is flawed and ignorant, gets enlightened by the end