Theatre History 1

Who was was the Spanish King married to Mary Tudor of England and attempted to conquer England after her death.

Torelli was the French designer who created a moderately French form based off of Italian Intermezzi?

What were the elite members of an acting company called?

What is the name for Roman tragedy based on Roman materials?

What commedia dell'arte character is this?

What is Spanish pageant wagon called?

What is the name for Roman tragedy based on Greek originals?

What is the name for Roman comedies based on Greek originals?

Lazzi are the comic bits used regularly by Commedia Del Arte.

What was one of the tragedies we read this semester

Inigo Jones was the name of the 1st important English Scenic Designer.

What does Quem Queritis mean

What is the name of the later Indian dance-drama called?

Who was the Catholic Tudor Queen

What is the name of the Italian religious medieval style dramas?

The Pear Garden was an actor training institute during the Tang Dynasty.

Who perfected the Chariot and Pole system for changing scenery during the Italian Renaissance?

Katharsis is a purgation of emotions.

What is the Greek translation for "goat song"

What was the name of the Spanish novelist who wrote Don Quixote?

What was one of the tragedies we read this semester

What was the stationary stage used in medieval churches?

The abandoned twin brother that Rome is named after is Remus.

What does the word Verisimilitude mean?

What was the name of the post of the one responsible for the monarch’s entertainment?

What was one of the comedies we read this semester

Chikamatsu was a Chinese playwright from the late 17th/ early 18th century.

5 types of Noh plays are God plays Woman Plays Warrior plays Plays about obsession & derangement & Demon/ Animal Plays

Horace was considered the Roman Aristotle.

Who was the god of wine and fertility worshiped during the most important theatre festival in the city of Athens?

In a Spanish theater, what did they call the Standing Room?

What were early Spanish religious dramas called?

Liturgical drama is sung or chanted in Latin outside of a church sanctuary.

What was one of the tragedies we read this semester

What was one of the comedies we read this semester.

The stage platform on wheels that could be moved about the Medieval town for performances was called what?

What is the “Flavor” of Sanskrit Drama

Which English king had six wives

What theatrical architecture mainstay for the “picture frame” theaters was invented during the Italian Renaissance?

Hildegard von Bingen was the nun who wrote plays modeled after Terence and was known as the 1^st female dramatist.

What is the Latin name for the elaborately decorated background of a Roman theatre stage?

What is the burlesque performance of tragedy, myth, and daily life popular in southern Italy called?

What are comic interludes between Noh Plays called?

What is the script containing a single actor’s lines and cues called?

What is the entertainment in which trained dogs attack a bear called?

What Greek for the "seeing place"

What is the name of the chanted text in Bunraku?

What is the name for Roman comedy based on Roman materials?

The term Protagonist literally means "carrier of the action" in the Greek.

4 plays by one dramatist (3 Tragedies and 1 Satyr play) are called a what?

The Mahabharata is one of the Indian Sanskrit epics.

The 4 “Noble Truths” of Buddhism are Dukkha, Samudaya, Nivhodha, and Magga

What commedia dell'arte character is this?

Who helped control France behind Louis XIII?

What is the Greek contrived ending with gods descending called?

Intermezzi were short pieces depicting mythological tales presented between the acts of a full-length play.

What is the only known, full length, Satyr Play in existence (written by Euripides)?

Renaissance means rebirth

What word means excessive pride?

This gave freedom of religion to Protestants in France

What great conquer invaded China from Mongolia, to create the Yuan Dynasty?

The Early Middle Ages was from 1050-1300

What French actress was a founding member of the Comedie Francaise and the young wife of Moliere?

Plot, Character, Theme, Diction/word/text, Music/Song, Spectacle are the Six Elements of Drama according to Aristotle?

The three types of Japanese theatre are Noh, Bunraku, and Sanskrit.

What was one of the tragedies we read this semester

What was the name given to the splitting of the Christian church?

Who wrote the play The Spanish Tragedy?

What is the native Japanese religion called?

The Cid was critically claimed to violate the unity of time

Name the 1st and most powerful banking family in Florence

What is the Spanish theatre building called

Shakespeare died in 1603.

What is not one of the 3 Unities?

What 2 Classical writers were the thoughts of the neoclassical rules based on?

What year did Shakespeare die in?

Terence was the Roman Tragedian

What is the literal meaning of Kabuki?

Who was the king of French comedy

Who is not one of the 2 Comedic Roman playwrights?

What was the name of the early chorus leader who is generally considered to be the first actor of ancient Greece?

What was one of the comedies we read this semester

What commedia dell'arte character is this?

What is the Latin word of Actor

What was one of the comedies we read this semester

T/F Charles II was the Spanish King married to Mary Tudor of England and attempted to conquer England after her death.

When many mystery plays are grouped together, they are referred to as a what?

The High Middle Ages was from 900 to 1050

Thomas Dekker wrote the play The Duchess of Malfi.

What is the name given to the Medieval stage manager of cycle/ mystery plays.