History of Theatre

The first playwright to use a leader to the chorus and thus creating the first actor was...

___________ is a person or persons paid to rouse the audience into clapping and shouting. 

 Lope de Vega wrote ___________ plays filled with poetry, vigorous action, and dashing romance.

Aristotles elements of drama in order from most to least important are...

______ are extravagant entertainments held at court that included dance, song, and recitation.

What was the term used for the first Greek theatres?

What was the first public playhouse in England?

Noh theatre is known as the art of ____________.

Richard Burbage, and his brother Cuthbert, built what theatre?

It takes _______ attendants to operate each puppet in Bunraku.

Plays enacting the lives of the saints were known as _______________.

____________________ are plays to be read rather than performed.

_________________ is better known for his novel, Don Quixote, then the thirty plays he wrote.

There were many great Elizabethan playwrights, and most of them wrote___________________.

City Dionysia was ________

Traditional Japanese puppetry is known as _________________.

Plays depicting scenes from Christ’s life were known as_____________.

Drama, a Greek word, meaning ________________.

_____ is a unique mechanical crane used for lowering and raising gods in ancient Greek theatre.

The three giants of Elizabethan theatre are...

What is the greenroom’s country of origin?

Molière took a pseudonym because ______________.

Egyptians ritualistic rites, similar to our idea of a play, were performed them as early as...

What Greek playwright won the most City Dionysia first prizes?

First form of theatre to allow women on stage was ___________.