Theatre Class--Semester Review 1 (40)

Who wrote Poetics, the first book of criticism?

Name for the comic bits used in Commedia dell Arte--

Building at the back of the acting area in the ancient Greek amphitheatres--

Deus ex machina is now used as a term for--

A word that means an introductory speech--

Ancient Greek plays where done in honor of what Greek god of wine, fertility?

One of the most famous Morality Plays is--

Style of Italian theatre from the Renaissance that features lazzi, stock characters/situations and improvisation.

For an actor to move downstage, he/she would go--

A purgation of pity and fear, a cleansing--

Author of The Mandrake and The Prince--

Most important of Aristotle’s 6 elements of drama?

The word "tragedy" means--

Style of rowdy comedy whose name comes from the sword used by Arlecchino--

Many Renaissance writers patterened themselves after Seneca by using ____ Acts in their plays.

Term that means "actor"--

Which of these wrote tragedies?

Plays meant to be read, rather than acted--

The guilds who performed the Cycle Plays often used the _______ wagons as their stages.

Which of these terms is used for a serious play with a happy ending?

The _____ Plays featured a series of short plays of Biblical or religious stories.

Plays about regular life (not just religion or moral lessons

A cothurnus (or buskin) is a(n)--

The word "theatre" means--

Zeami is--

Acting with little or no use of a script--

A tetrology is a group of--

Which of these is NOT a Greek writer of tragedies?

Another term for "peripeteia" is--

Which of these stock characters is NOT correctly matched to their description?

Person considered to have been the first actor--

Error, or fall of tragic hero comes from a weakness is called--

The picture frame, or archway, around many stages--

Poetics is considered the first work of--

To perform the Medieval Mystery Plays, actors would go to various smaller areas of the stage called--

Which of these is NOT a play from ancient Greece?

Song of the chorus as they enter (named for the entrance ramp)--

What is a "dithyramb"?

Noh is a style of theatre from--

Which of these is NOT a Roman writer?