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What is a cycle play?
Medieval plays that were performed annually.
Plays performed in a cycle featuring biblical characters.
Plays performed in a sequence about the saints.
Plays performed on medieval bicycles.
2
Describe the education of the common person during the middle ages:
Very educated. 100% literate. They made us look foolish.
Mostly uneducated. Universities reserved for societal elite.
Somewhat educated. Most people could at least read.
Pre-literate. Nobody could read because there were no books.
3
What is Byzantium?
The word for the Eastern Roman empire (Constantinople)
A circus group popular in the early middle ages
A silly word Gehrlein fabricated out of nowhere...
A traveling troupe of performers
4
Who is The Witch?
An aristocrat. Capable of true violence. Lady Macbeth.
A large character who understands nothing.
Magnifico of the countryside.
Cowardly soldier. Outsider.
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What is a trope?
A special fancy hat worn by the pope (no, you can't wear it)
A theatrical game involving mud, the Bible, and a few cats.
Where we get the term "Thespian Troupe" from.
Extended musical passages added to Christian church services
6
True or False: Theatre always reflects and responds to its society
True
False
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How did attitudes toward theatre change during the end of the medieval period?
King Henry VIII blamed theatre for his lack of a son.
Theatre was embraced and used in the church freely.
Theatre was thought to have caused the black death.
Plays slowly became more secular. Theatre was rejected again
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What is a medieval theatrical secret?
Nobody knows...It's a secret
Special effects for medieval theatrical performances.
If I told you, I'd have to kill you.
Hidden knowledge embedded into religious theatrical texts
9
What is Iambic Pentameter?
A Shakespearean poetic device consisting of 5 metrical feet
Three stressed syllables and 2 unstressed syllables
Something only ELA teachers can know.
Most of Shakespearean verse is written in this poetic style
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Name the acting company Shakespeare was associated with:
Gehrlein's Children
Shakespeare Inc.
The Queen's Men
The King's Men
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Who wrote the morality play,
Everyman
?
We actually don't know for certain.
William Shakespeare
Hrosvitha
The devil
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How many plays did he write?
33
38
20
He collaborated with others but never wrote his own
13
What is a liturgical drama?
A dramatic piece of literature for the masses
A drama that has a moral lesson
A drama performed after someone died of the plague.
A dramatized re-telling of a biblical story for church elite
14
Who is the Captain?
The outsider. Cowardly soldier. Acts brave
An old man. Vinegary.
The top dog. Represents "the man"
The head of servants. Always babysitting Harlequino.
15
What/Who influenced William Shakespeare and his plays?
No one. Real geniuses work alone and are original, yo.
Roman history, Italian novellas, and English chronicles
Christopher Marlowe--Elizabethan Dramatist
Terrance (Roman comic playwright)
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Who is Harlequino?
A master in the Commedia world
Impish and monkey-like. This servant is here for a good time
Fancy servant obsessed with status. Tries too hard to please
Neighbor of The Doctor.
17
Name four plays written by Shakespeare:
Our American Cousin, Romeo & Juliet, Pericles, Richard III
Merchant of Venice, Henry V, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar
Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, She Kills Monsters
Macbeth, Othello, Les Miz, Winters Tale,
18
What is the literal translation of the word, "Renaissance?"
Re-do
Thank-God-the-dark-ages-are-done
Re-birth
Nuance
19
What is feudalism?
The opposite of democracy.
The political organization of the middle ages in Europe
Society divided into three classes Lords, Vassals, & Surfs
The breeding grounds to communism
20
How did Queen Elizabeth I influence the English Renaissance?
She reigned when language and literature flourished
She did nothing to advance the theatre arts.
The defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588
She killed her cousin, Mary, and severed all Catholic ties
21
What language were liturgical dramas performed in?
Latin
The common, vernacular
English
German
22
Who was the pageant master?
The actual master of all pageants (forever)
A religious figure in charge of writing liturgical dramas.
The person who supervised the mounting of plays on wagons.
A medieval theatrical stage manager or director
23
When was Commedia dell'arte developed?
During the Enlightenment
During the Renaissance.
During the medieval period
During the American Revolution
24
What is a morality play?
A play produced in the church for the religious elite.
A play performed for immoral people.
A play where everyone is moral and good.
Play that teaches a moral lesson using allegory. For masses.
25
True or False: Theatre & Religion have been closely linked and have a complicated relationship
False
True
26
What famous Shakespearean theatre burned down in 1613?
Royal Shakespeare Company
The Globe
National Shakespearean Stage
King's Players Theater
27
Why was the medieval period called the dark ages?
Everyone was covered in mud all the time.
People performed cool nighttime shows in the dark.
There were no significant advancements in anything.
There was no electricity and it was literally dark.
28
What was a pageant wagon?
A red wagon the Pope sat in
A mobile theatrical platform possibly as high as two stories
A wagon for beauty pageants featuring medieval women
A gothic cathedral that could be "brought to the people"
29
Who is Brighella?
A servant who gets into a lot of trouble. Monkey-like.
A servant at the very bottom. Leads with his nose.
The servant of masters. The master of servants.
A commedia character who does not wear a mask.
30
When and where was Shakespeare born?
Yorkshire, 1570
London, England 1590
Edinburgh, Scottland 1600
Stratford-upon-Avon, 1564
31
Who is Columbina?
An intelligent servant able to get what she wants.
The com media character at the very top of the scale.
A servant obsessed with his position and what he can get
The Magnifico of the countryside
32
What is lazzi?
A bit of reoccurring comical business that pauses the story
A lazy Italian actor was known as "Lazzi"
Something having to do with Commedia
A skin condition from wearing Commedia masks.
33
True or False: Theatre is dangerous because it is powerful
False
True
34
Why was the first folio printed?
Acting company members hoped to preserve the true plays.
Shakespeare wanted to leave his legacy.
Queen Elizabeth wanted a personal copy of his work.
Nobody had every printed plays for the public before.
35
When and where EXACTLY did theatre begin?
Theatre never began. It is always beginning.
Theatre began at year 1 in a cave in Africa.
Theatre began in Babylon.
Nobody knows for certain due to a lack of a written record.
36
What advances in technical theatre did the Italian Renaissance give us?
Visual art: Perspective (the illusion of depth)
The proscenium arch
Advancements in architecture of the theater house
Raked stages--giving us the term "upstage"
37
Commedia forces you to:
Rely on societal stereotypes.
All of the above
Play to the audience and use improvisation
Act bigger than normal to sculpt a specific character
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How did religious theatre decline?
Protestant reformation labeled religious theatre catholic
Theatre evolved outside of the context of the church
It became more secular & religious theatre was overshadowed
The pope deemed theatre silly.
39
When did Shakespeare die?
He never did. He is alive in us.
1590
On his birthday?
1616
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What is the emotional babel-speak language of Commedia?
Grammalot
Sims Talk
The devil's tongue
Gibberish
41
What is a mystery play?
A type of play performed by secular actors.
From the word ministerium. Dramatization of Biblical events.
A medieval "who-dun-it" play
The first murder mystery plays performed by monks at parties
42
Who developed Commedia Dell'arte
The French
The Italians
The Germans
The English
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What major religious shift changed attitudes toward theatre?
Rome banned all religion and they also banned theatre.
Nothing changed and theatre thrived.
Rome converted to Christianity. Theatre was deemed pagan.
Rome converted to polytheism and people liked theatre more.
44
When was the first folio printed?
1590
1623
Nobody really knows because it's...so old.
1616
45
Who is the Doctor?
Commedia character. A master. Dumb. Fat.
A servant character to Pantalone.
The boss of Magnifico.
The son of the 1st actor. Romeo.
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What is Commedia dell'arte?
Improvised scenarios acted out using stereo types in society
A style of comedic theatre using masks.
All of the above
Theatre based on stock characters
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What is the one type of theatre that has survived since the Italian Renaissance?
Opera
Intermezzi
Nothing has survived.
The proscenium arch
