History of Theater Review

This term is still used today to indicate an artificial plot device introduced late into the play to resolve problems.

A crane- like hoist that permitted actors to appear above the stage as if flying is called_______.

This Dramatist introduced the first important use of blank unrhymed verse, the "mighty line" on English poetic Drama.

With the English Royal Patent of ___. Women appeared as players for the first time.

Plays intended to read and not performed were called closet dramas.

Round or octagonal in shape with two to three tiers of Galleries with no roof

Following the Elizabethan Era, All theater was banned for how many years.

The first African American and the Youngest person to win the New York Drama Critic Circle award in 1959.

The first African American Actor to achieve international fame.

In the English Renaissance the playgoers who stood in the pit were called?

Which of the following is not a role of the Chorus

Tragedy is derived from the Greek word ______, which means "Goat Song"

This type of Medieval Theater was primarily ethical in purpose, dealing with the principles of right and wrong.

The dramatist that was a master of English Comedy

What weastern culture was the first to develop a type of drama?

A form of Medieval Drama that focused on the last week of Christ

The period in which drama was the expression of the soul of a nation, became a vital force in the lives of people.

This type of Japanese Theater was originally created by women, but currently only allows men to perform

A form of Medieval Drama were chants performed at Mass.

Won the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics Circle Award in 1949

The first American woman to find success abroad

The humors did not include which of the following elements.

Who wrote the Pirates of Penzance.

During the Italian renaissance, Theater ___________ was developed.

The first professional company to produce plays in the American colonies

Roman drama was largely an imitation of Greek Drama

The Renaissance movement began where?

Considered to be the greatest dramatist of all time.

A form of Medieval Drama based on legends of saints

A series of short plays that depicted religious history from creation through doomsday.

A form of Medieval Drama told stories based on biblical history.

Medieval Drama lasted roughly from the 5th century to the 12th century

it is believed that some ancient Greek theaters seated more than _______________ patrons

William Butler Yeats originated from

The oldest form of Japanese Theater

Which of the following was not a playwright from ancient Greece.

Stock characters were identified by their costumes and generally by their _____.

A type of Japanese Theater performed by puppets.

Employs the same symbolism and techniques that it has for centuries

Three plays related by characters, myth, or theme is called what?

Greed performances were held in the open on hillsides surrounding a circular area called the ______.

Roman Theater was extended into a circular arena surrounded by towering tiers of seats called what?

The term Thespian has been given to actors ever since who stepped out of the chorus and engaged in dialogue with them.