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Elizabethan Theatre
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This Quiz! is an accompaniment to Joyce Sherry's popular video on YouTube.
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1
Though the stage itself was plain wood, everything around the stage was all...
black
drab and grey
painted with bright colors and gold leaf
bare
2
Plays were produced from...
May to October
June to August
January to December
October to May
3
Shakespeare's theatre was called...
The Orbit
The Globe
The World
The Swan
4
The principal tragic actor in the company was...
Ben Jonson
Will Kempe
Christopher Marlowe
Richard Burbage
5
Public theatres didn't use scenery. They used props like chairs & banners to indicate setting.
False
True
6
A playwright who was a friend of Shakespeare's was...
Christopher Marlowe
Ben Jonson
Will Kempe
Richard Burbage
7
A playwright who wrote mostly comedies was...
Richard Burbage
Christopher Marlowe
Will Kempe
Ben Jonson
8
Public theatres were always...
housed in public buildings.
outdoors and open to the elements.
outdoors and fully protected from the elements.
Indoors
9
To indicate a play was to be performed that day, the company would fly a...
costume
falcon
kite
flag
10
The people who stood to see the show were called...
men
the penny-stinkers or the groundlings
Orange girls
fish
11
The canopy over the stage was called the...
covering
zodiac
sky
heavens
12
The principal clown (comic actor) was...
Ben Jonson
Richard Burbage
Christopher Marlowe
Will Kempe
13
Who acted during the Elizabethan era?
Anyone from the middle class
Only the bravest people
Only boys and men
Only nobility
14
Which of the following was NOT true of Elizabethan public theatres?
Seating for the audience was in three tiers.
Audiences didn't sit quietly; Orange Girls sold "snacks."
Young noblemen sat in the onstage balcony.
Costumes emphasized accurate setting for period and country.
15
What was one of the names of the company with which Shakespeare was associated?
Lord Chamberlain's Men
The Swan
Richard Burbage
Boys to Men
16
The building that formed the backstage of a public theatre was called...
the ground
the hall
the backstage
the tiring house
17
In addition to plays, theatres were used for bear baiting contests.
False
True
18
Plays were performed during the...
day
night
