Theatre History One Midterm

Term meaning 'seeing place'?

Maximum actors in Greek tragedy?

Pulpitum in a Roman theatre?

We can read complete Greek tragedies from this number of playwrights:

A political component of the City of Dionysia festival was:

The general playing area used for liturgical drama in the church was known as:

Cultural specialist living in society?

This position created by Elizabeth I was responsible for the regulation of theatres, plays  and actors

Cultural specialist requiring years of training and is part of a distinct class.

This type of play focuses on the bible stories:

   This writer is known for his “comedy of humors” plays:

This Catholic ritual can be considered a commemorative drama:

This type of play focuses on the last days of Christ:

This device, created by Gutenberg revolutionized communication and helped to start the renaissance:

    He designed The Cockpit theatre:

Plays performed in Latin and staged in a church were known as:

Primary costume element in Greek theater?

This term refers to “highly physical routines and comic bits:”

Euripides’ Cyclops is an example of this type of play, which featured half-horse, half-human creatures

Which character would be considered a “straight” Commedia dell’arte character:

Best-known Greek tragedy writers?

Commedia dell’arte translates as comedy of:

Source for ancient Greek tragedy?

 This theatre, built in Italy in 1580 attempted to recreate a Roman theatre inside an existing building.

The vomitoria were:

A “drama” performed in ancient Egypt at Abydos celebrated the life of:

Memory aids in oral cultures exclude:

This Commedia dell’arte character was a braggart and coward who boasted of how great he was in bed and battle:

These were sea battles staged in the Colosseum:

In Elizabethan England a theatre that was open to the sky was known as a:

 Individual scenic units in the church were known as:

Storytelling uses quoted speech.

This pandemic caused a major upheaval in society and helped to end the Middle Ages:

This writer wrote six plays based on plays by Terence:

People with this humor tend to be highly talkative, enthusiastic, active, and social:

Mimesis means imitation or representation.

 According to neoclassical rules, the three unities include:

Oral culture emphasizes ritual and storytelling.

In Elizabethan England a theatre that was under a roof was known as a:

Religious subjects were banned from theatre during the reign of Elizabeth I.

The “original practices” of Shakespeare’s plays include all of these EXCEPT:

Playwright who introduced the second actor?

This work by Horace is essentially a “how to write a play” book:

His Five Books of Architecture provides instructions for creating scenery:

This type of play focuses on the saints:

The cheapest place to watch a show at The Globe Theatre is the:

The Oberammergau Passion Play is performed every:

  This designer, for the court of James I, introduced movable scenery and the proscenium arch to England:

This type of “drama” may be enacted to honor deities; enhance communication with the divine; honor historic events

This was the Roman term for “games and holidays:”

   He wrote The Duchess of Malfi

The Greek term for the scenic background in a theatre:

This writer was part of the Storm and Stress (Sturm und Drang) movement:

This term means “the appearance of truth.”

Students performed plays as part of their education at these institutions:

Tragedy's main goal according to Aristotle?

One of the characteristics of Seneca’s tragedies include:

Plays such as Everyman, that use allegorical characters fall under this category:

This term means “in which human nature is explored through the mingling of the sacred and the profane:

Most controversial Greek playwright?