Chapter 11, 12, 13 test

French comic writer who was greatly influenced by commedia dell'arte and authored Tartuffe

Moliere

Indonesian shadow plays

Wayang

Elizabethan called a playwright for the ages

William Shakespeare

Kabuki theatre was originated by

a Shinto priestess

Japanese puppet theatre

bunraku

Who wrote Menaechmi?

Plautus

The scene shifting method of changing wings and back shutters that was developed by Italian Giacomo Torelli is know as the

Pole-and-chariot system

T/F: The proscenium arch was particularly responsible for the move toward greater theatrical realism

True

T/F: The speeches of the Greek chorus were sung and danced

True

T/F: The three great Greek tragic playwrights are Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

True

T/F: Theatrical activity was outlawed in England by the Puritans in 1642, which was the end of the English Renaissance

True

T/F: Unlike Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine's tragedies adhered to the neoclassical rules from the start

True

Who is considered the first dramatist?

Aeschylus

Who wrote King Oedipus?

Sophocles

Which of the following most accuratly defines the term unities

A neoclassicist mandate for playwrights, formulated by Italian critics

Which of the following added a second actor to the play, starting drama as we now know it?

Aeschylus

Who wrote Old Comedy, which made fun of social, political, or cultural conditions?

Aristophanes

Shakespeare's contemporary who championed a more literary approach to drama

Ben Jonson

Of the following, which did NOT include woman in heir ranks

Elizabethan acting companies

Of the following, who is considered the most modern?

Euripides

Which of the following is noted for his sympathetic portrayal of female characters?

Euripides

Which of the following was considered to be most rebellious?

Euripides

Comedies written by Plautus were quite similar to the Old Comedy written by Aristophanes

False

T/F Thespis is considered the first playwright

False

T/F: Commedia characters did not wear costumes

False

T/F: French theatre in the seventeenth century developed on its own trajectory, unaware of most of the Italian theatrical innovations

False

T/F: Kabuki drew its material from Kathakali plays

False

T/F: Li Yu was the only important playwright of note during the Ming Dynasty

False

T/F: The Elizabethans perfected the art of painted scenery for picture

False

T/F: The first significant dramatic critisism, The Poetics< was written by Horace

False

T/F: The god Dionysus, to whom the Greek dramatic festivals were dedicated, was the god of war, death, and chastity

False

T/F: Under Islamic rule in India, theatrical productions and classical Sanskrit dramas continued to be encourged and maintained

False

T/F: Written drama was probably the most significant art form of the Italian Renaissance

False

Which of the following is the author of Ars Poetica (The art of poetry)

Horace

French writer of tragedies; author of Phaedra

Jean Racine

Seventeenth-century Japanese form that drew its material from bunraku and no

Kabuki

Indian dance-drama form

Kathakali

One of the numerous female playwrights of the Spanish Golden age whose works have recieved significant scholarly attention

Leonor de la Cueva y Silva

Spanish Golden Age playwright who is said to have written 1,500 plays

Lope de Vega

Everyman is a

Morality play

The Second Shepherds Play is a

Mystery play

Greatest work of dramatic criticism in Sanskrit

Natyasatra

Japanese form perfected by Zeami in the fourteenth century

No

Zeami Motokiyo was the most important and influential figure in the history of which form of drama?

No

Which of the following is NOT a component of commedia dell/arte

Scaena

The works of _______ likely influenced Shakespeares Hamlet

Seneca

Whose tragedies were similiar to those of the Greeks, except that they were considerably more violent?

Seneca

Which of the following added a third character to the play?

Sophocles

The oldest surviving theatre--constructed during the Italian Renaissance-- which was designed as a miniature, indoor Roman theatre is the

Teatro Olimpico

The comic playwright whose style is more literary and less exaggerated than that of the other Roman comic playwrights is

Terence

Which of the following plays deeply influenced German playwright Bertolt Brecht

The Circle of Chalk

Which of the following is NOT an audience space in an Elizabethan public theatre

Tiring house

T/: Spectators, no matter where they were, were never far far from the actors in English Renaissance theatre

True

T/F: As in Englsnd, most Spanish acting troupes were sharing companies

True

T/F: Critics were more influential than playwrights in formulating dramatic rules during the Italian Renaissance

True

T/F: English acting companies would rarely perform the same play on two consecutive days

True

T/F: Humanism was a major focus of Renaissance literature

True

Full-lenght secular plays during the Spanish-Golden age were known as

comedias

Shadow puppets are actually made of what material

intricately carved leather

Ornate, professionally staged, mythological allegories that were intended to praise the monarch during the Jacobean period were known as

masques

A __________ uses religious characters and religious themes to teach a lessom

morality play

A ________ dramatizes a series of biblical events

mystery play

Which two forms of asian theatre include long narrow bridges ( The Hashigakari and the Hanamichi ) used for actor entrances

no and kabuki

The stage in an Elizabethan public theatre was most like a contemporary

thrust stage

T/F: The overriding concern of the neoclassicists was verisimilitude

True

Unlike English Renaissance theater,theatre in Renaissance Spain

Continued to include religious themes

Elizabethan playwright known for his mighty lines, who was killed in a tavern brawl at age 29

Christopher Marlowe

The theatrical troupe I Gelosi, led by Isabella and Francesco Andreini, was renowned in Renaissance Italy for what type of theatrical performance

Commedia dell'arte

T/F: The plot of King Oedipus by Sophocles has a climactic structure

True

T/F: Italian commedia dell'arte had no set text; it was improvisational

True

T/F: Kabuki plays feature beautiful scenic effects and also include the first known use of a revolving stage

True

T/F: Kabuki was performed first by all-female troupes, then by boys, and finally by all-male companies.

True

T/F: No one knows how theatre began, and where or when it originated

True

T/F: Sanskrit drama typically included both serious and comic elements, as well as a number of different locations and characters

True

T/F: Shakuntala is the most famous Sanskrit drama and is considered to be the finest of the classical Indian dramas

True