Full Theater History Review

Who is considered the father of Modernism in American Drama?

Who is known as the first actor?

True or False: Shakespeare acted as well as wrote plays.

How many sonnets (poems) did Shakespeare write?

What type of play is Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream?"

During the Middle Ages, why was theater banned for a period of time?

What does "vernacular" mean?

What types of plays became popular at the end of the Middle Ages?

Restoration Theater took place during what century in Europe?

Where were most Commedia dell'Arte performances held?

Shakespeare's works are timeless because...

Who is the Greek playwright who wrote The Frogs?

What are stock characters?

Which country did Commedia dell'Arte originate in?

How did Greek actors change roles?

What type of Medieval theater tried to teach a lesson of right and wrong, like "Everyman?"

What Shakespeare tragedy is the famous "To be or not to be..." monologue from?

Type of poem Shakespeare is known for writing, consisting of 14 lines and written in iambic pentameter:

Who is the Greek playwright who wrote Oedipus Rex?

In Greek theater, it's the name of the area where the audience sits.

Early type of American theater that included racist depictions of people of African descent:

Who was one of the theater's first women playwrights?

What was the name of the theater that Shakespeare performed most of his plays at?

What type of Medieval theater is the earliest and was performed during church services?

How many plays did Shakespeare write?

Which Greek playwright is known as the "father of tragedy"?

The 'Father of Modern Drama,' also a realism playwright:

The time in which Shakespeare lived is known as the “Elizabethan Era” because...

Which Greek playwright is known as the "Father of Comedy?"

Women were forbidden to perform onstage in England until what year?

Laws in Shakespeare’s time prohibited...

Who is the Greek playwright that wrote Prometheus Bound?

Who is the Greek playwright who wrote Medea?

Shakespeare wrote comedies and tragedies but never historical plays.

What were the small, moveable stages in Medieval Europe called?

In Greek theater, what is the name of the area where the performance takes place?

What type of play is Shakespeare's "Henry VIII?"

Greek stage mechanic/special effect that means "god from the machine"

What are the three types of plays that Shakespeare wrote?

Who/What did Greek theater originally celebrate?

Who ruled Medieval Theater?

What was "vaudeville"?

Which century did Commedia dell'Arte begin?

What type of play is Shakespeare's "MacBeth?"

What was the group of masked background actors in Greek theater?