Chpt. 11 & 13 Exam

(T/F) Commedia characters did not wear costumes.

False

What is probably the best-known neoclassical tragedy?

phaedra

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

pole and chariot

Who is the author of Phormio?

Terence

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

thrust stage

(T/F) Thespis is considered the first playwright.

False

What playwright reduced the size of the chorus to twelve?

Aeschylus

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

Aeschylus

Who is considered the first important Greek dramatist?

Aeschylus

Who wrote the Oresteia?

Aeschylus

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

Aristophanes

Who wrote Lysistrata?

Aristophones

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

Ben Johnson

Elizabethan playwright known for his "mighty lines," who was killed in a tavern brawl at age twenty-nine

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

What are the differences and similarities between English Renaissance theatre and theatre in Renaissance Spain?

Continued to produce religious themes

Which theatre companies/troupes did and did not include women in their ranks?

Elizabethan Theatre

What playwright is considered the most modern?

Euripides

What playwright is noted for his sympathetic portrayal of female characters?

Euripides

What playwright was considered to be most rebellious?

Euripides

(T/F) Comedies written by Plautus were quite similar to the Old Comedy written by Aristophanes.

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) Italian pastorals imitated Greek satyr plays and were often overtly bawdy and sexual.

False

(T/F) Old Comedy dealt with romantic and domestic problems.

False

(T/F) The Elizabethans perfected the art of painted scenery for the theatre.

False

(T/F) The Golden Age of Greece took place in the second century A.D.

False

(T/F) The Greek amphitheatre is the first example of a proscenium theatre space.

False

(T/F) The choregus is the lead actor in a Greek drama.

False

(T/F) The first significant dramatic criticism, 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) Written drama was probably the most significant art form of the Italian Renaissance.

False

Who is the author of Ars Poetica (The Art of Poetry)?

Horace

Who states in Ars Poetica that drama should both teach a lesson and entertain?

Horace

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

Jean Rasice

French writer of tragedies; author of Phaedrap

Jean-Baptiste Racine

One of the numerous female playwrights of the Spanish Golden Age whose works have received significant scholarly attention

Leonor de la Cueva Silva

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

Lope de Vega Carpio

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

Masques

What type of play dramatizes the lives of saints?

Miracle Plays

What type of play uses religious characters and religious themes to teach a lesson?

Morality Play

Who wrote Menaechmi?

Plautus

What are the components of commedia dell'arte?

Scaena

Which Roman playwright used a chorus in his plays, it did not play an integral part?

Seneca

Which Roman playwright wrote plays in which supernatural beings appeared in the dramatic action?

Seneca

Whose dramatic works were likely influenced Shakespeare's Hamlet?

Seneca

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

Seneca

What are the categories of personnel in an Elizabethan acting company?

Shareholders Hired Men Apprentices

Which playwright added a third actor to the play?

Sophocles

Who increased the number of members in the chorus from twelve to fifteen?

Sophocles

Who wrote King Oedipus?

Sophocles

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

Teatro Olimpico

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

Terence

Which Roman playwright wrote plays that dealt exclusively with domestic situations?

Thespis

Which playwright demonstrated a skeptical attitude toward the gods?

Thespis

Determine the validity of the following statements about Elizabethan private theatres:

They were open to the general public.

What are the "audience spaces" in an Elizabethan public theatre?

Tiring House

(T/F) As in England, 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) Despite the popularity of medieval religious drama, secular theatre and drama also existed in the Middle Ages

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

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

True

(T/F) Spectators, no matter where they were, were never far from the actors in an English Renaissance theatre.

True

(T/F) The improvisational elements of Italian commedia dell'arte were built around rough outlines called scenarios.

True

(T/F) The overriding concern of the neoclassicists was verisimilitude.

True

(T/F) The plot of King Oedipus by Sophocles has a climactic structure.

True

(T/F) The proscenium arch was partially 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 neoclassic rules from the start.

True

Elizabethan called a "playwright for the ages"

William Shakespeare

Full-length secular plays during the Spanish Golden Age were known as _____.

comedia (comedias nuevas)

Define the term unities?

in drama, the three principles derived by French classicists from Aristotle's Poetics;

What types of plays are the following: The Second Shepherds' Play, Everyman, and Noah's Ark?

medieval mystery play

What type of play dramatizes a series of biblical events?

mystery play