Drama History Review

All of these were contributions to the theater from the Italians EXCEPT:

Literally means "seeing place"

Three related plays

The Choragos had to buy the props for Greek plays

He wrote Oedipus Rex

Father of Greek tragedy

A Japanese theater that used puppets or marionettes

Oldest type of Japanese theater

Women could not act in the plays submitted for the City Dionysia

Oedipus solved the riddle of the Sphinx

Euripides wrote mainly comedies

Queen in Shakespeare's time

Shakespeare wrote ALL of the following EXCEPT

Oh - just guess. 3 truths and a lie - which one is my lie?

These folks stood in front of Shakespeare's stage and were prepared to throw rotten tomatoes:

The stage opening or arch

Shakespeare's twin son who died

The place where actors in SHAKESPEARE'S time changed costumes

Shakespeare was born on the same day he died

Broadway trivia: In which Broadway musical does Jack sing “There are giants in the sky”?

Father of Greek tragedy

The first actor in ancient Greek theatre was Thespian

Greek word for suffering or feeling

The very earliest record of any type of evidence of theater drawing comes from Egypt

Humour that is listless and dull

Anne Hathaway was Shakespeare's

A sudden release of emotions is called a CATHARSIS

King who solved the riddle of the Sphinx, ended up marrying his own mummy :)

Place where Greek actors changed costumes

Humour that is the most emotional

Roman open air stage

He was the first actor

Italian professional improvised comedy

The answer to the riddle of the Sphinx was

Early Greek plays that taught a lesson

Literally means goat song

Masks of the gods

Renaissance literally means

Shakespeare's theatre - "the wooden O"

Greek god of wine and fertility

Shakespeare's home town

Winners of the City Dionysus wore these

Deux ex machina means

The roof of the Globe Theater was called The Heavens

Your tragedy has to have ALL of the following EXCEPT

Humour that is angry, hot-tempered

Sanguine humour is associated with the earth

Humour that is happy-go-lucky

Plays meant to be read not performed

This is another name for a stage that sloped downward