S2S Final Review

This intimate, noncommercial theatre movement took the place of large spectacles.

Crude, low comedy with lots of belly laughs and physical humor.  

Which of Shakespeare's characters speak in prose?

Which of the following does NOT represent a type of Experimental Theater?

Using artistic forms to create effects, rather than realistic or spontaneous action:

Plays that reflect the beauty of nature and love employ which of these?

Which is NOT a Greek theater tragic playwright?

Harold Pinter's dialog suggests the underlying, real meaning of what a character says.

Which of the following were not permitted to act in Elizabethan theatres?

This modern acting style creates life-like, honest performances.

What does an author employ when he strays away from romance toward the negative real life?

Who was the first actor to step out of the chorus to speak as an individual?

Scientific determinism influenced this genre?

What device does Shakespeare use when Macbeth's witches say, "Fair is foul, and foul is fair?" 

"To begin in the middle of the action" describes which term?

Which god was mostly honored at Greek tragic festivals?

Which is NOT a Shakespearean comedy?

A playwright who resolves a problem or concludes a play miraculously employs which technique?

Who represents the people and gives background to move the plot in a Greek play?

Comedy that focuses on behavior of people who violate rules of upper-class society.

The Poetics, the earliest dramatic theory, was written by which ancient Greek philosopher?

What did actors in Greek plays wear to help express mood and to amplify voices?

Which of Shakespeare's life events occurred on the same month and day of different years?

A play that motivates people to act on an idea and support a movement is called what?

Russian theatrician who subjected acting to a rigorous artistic self-analysis & reflection:

What can the Choragus do that other chorus members cannot do?

When an actor speaks directly to the audience, he is performing what?

Which is not a good reason for adding stage directions to a play?

What does Shakespeare often use to indicate a major character will exit and/or a scene change?

What is the name of a 16 lined-poem in iambic pentameter ending with a rhyming couplet?

Aristotle's tragic heroes share all but which of these?

Shakespeare uses which lit device: "Ask for me tomorrow and you will find me a grave man?"

When Shakespeare's lower classes use prose, they distinguish class differences and...

Dark, uncomfortable comedy that portrays the world as unstable and usually ends unhappily.

The play that came after a tragic trilogy to make the audience laugh was called which?

Which of Shakespeare's characters speak in iambic pentameter?

When modern writers refer to Shakespeare's work they are using which literary device?

Television program or series with serious and comic unconventional plots without laugh tracks:

Recycled story lines & characters used often in comedies & sometimes in musicals and tragedies:

What kind of character contrasts with and highlights qualities ofthe protagonist? 

Comedy that focuses on a troubled love affair that wins out in the end

The alternative name for "Shakespearean" was coined because this monarch supported the arts.

The main ______________ in Greek tragedies stems from hubris and the gods men offend.

The audience and only a few characters know something that most characters don't know.

Name the Greek man whose story became a trilogy about incest and fratricide.

Mean jokes aimed at people, ideas, or things to improve, correct, or prevent something:

Well-developed characters, a strong build to the climax, & no loose ends is called what?

Plays that remind us that we are responsible for our own existence are which?

Emerging in the 19th Century, this popular theatre form emphasizes music and dance.

"The frailty of women facing turmoil" is part of which of the following devices in Hamlet?

Which of the following could not be found in Elizabethan theatres?

Everything on the stage is from which perspective?

The following are all types of modern what: proscenium, thrust, arena?