Roman and Elizabethan Theatre Review

Question 1

Who is considered the greatest playwright in history?

Accepted Answer

William Shakespeare

Question 2

Which play did William Shakespeare NOT write?

Accepted Answer

The Jew of Malta

Question 3

How were Elizabethan theaters shaped?

Accepted Answer

Round

Question 4

How did Seneca die?

Accepted Answer

Suicide

Question 5

Plautus used _______________ devices, which Shakespeare later copied.

Accepted Answer

Poetic

Question 6

Why was Terence forced to leave Rome?

Accepted Answer

Suspicion of plagarism

Question 7

What was the roof above the stage of the Globe Theatre called?

Accepted Answer

The Heavens

Question 8

Where was the stage located in Roman theaters?

Accepted Answer

Off the ground

Question 9

What happened in England in 1642 to cause theatre to die out?

Accepted Answer

Civil War

Question 10

What is the term for a play meant to be read and not performed?

Accepted Answer

Closet drama

Question 11

How did the Globe Theatre announce when a play was taking place?

Accepted Answer

A flag

Question 12

How many levels did the Globe Theater have?

Accepted Answer

3

Question 13

What modern term originated from where the Elizabethans paid to attend a play?

Accepted Answer

Box office

Question 14

In the Globe Theatre, who sat in the gallery (seats along the wall)?

Accepted Answer

Middle Class

Question 15

What did Romans NOT add to their stages?

Accepted Answer

Box Office

Question 16

Who played female roles in Elizabethan theatre?

Accepted Answer

Young boys

Question 17

What were people who stood in the pit of Elizabethan theaters called?

Accepted Answer

Groundlings

Question 18

Which words best describe Roman theatre?

Accepted Answer

Vulgar, sexual, profane

Question 19

Which Elizabethan playwright is known for writing blank verse?

Accepted Answer

Christopher Marlowe

Question 20

What were plays written for an intellectual audience called?

Accepted Answer

Court Plays

Question 21

Who was the Elizabethan era named after?

Accepted Answer

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 22

Who is believed to have been a spy for the queen?

Accepted Answer

Marlowe

Question 23

What did an Elizabethan actor have to do in order to be considered legitimate?

Accepted Answer

Get patronage of the nobility

Question 24

Terence was a ______________.

Accepted Answer

Slave

Question 25

How did Christopher Marlowe die?

Accepted Answer

Stabbed

Question 26

Ben Jonson was the first Englishman to write ___________________.

Accepted Answer

Comedy

Question 27

What did Elizabethan plays NOT use?

Accepted Answer

Elaborate scenery

Question 28

Where did the richest people sit in an Elizabethan theater?

Accepted Answer

The stage

Question 29

What was the name of Shakespeare's theater?

Accepted Answer

The Globe

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