Art Ch 8
August Wilson's 10-play project featured Blank______ living in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
African Americans
Which of the following are true of Alexander Hamilton's biography?
Alexander Hamilton died as the result of a duel.
______ was the master of Old Comedy.
Aristophanes
What is the term used to describe soliloquies in a play in which a character is not speaking to the audience?
Aside
Tragedy
Autumn
For a contemporary audience, why is Romeo and Juliet easier to participate with than most Greek tragedies?
Because its tragic hero and heroine do not belong to royalty
The musical is one of the most important contributions to the stage made by the United States.
Blank 1: Broadway
believed the power of archetypes comes from its capacity to reveal through art the "imprinting" of human experience.
Blank 1: Carl Blank 2: Jung
In Greek tragedies, the took on some of the function of the modern soliloquies.
Blank 1: Chorus
August Wilson's play won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987.
Blank 1: Fences
The Gaol Gate is named for the jail in Ireland.
Blank 1: Galway
Alexander Hamilton was an aide to during the Revolutionary War.
Blank 1: George Blank 2: Washington
The period during which the Abbey Theatre was founded was the Literary Revival.
Blank 1: Irish
According to Aristotle, character dramas are always more powerful than dramas.
Blank 1: action
The archetype of a parent or controlling older person who is often pitted against younger characters wishing to be married is called a character.
Blank 1: blocking
According to Aristotle, tragedy arouses pity and fear and by doing so produces in people a , a purging of those feelings, wiping out some of the horror.
Blank 1: catharsis
The great Greek tragedies were to musical instruments.
Blank 1: chanted
The standard theater of modern times is the theater.
Blank 1: proscenium
The moment of truth, or the climax, in a play is called .
Blank 1: recognition
Identify the similarities between certain basic ideas in the periods of ancient Greece and Renaissance England. (Select all that apply.)
Both ages had somewhat similar ideas about how a stage should be constructed. Both periods were marked by considerable prosperity and public power.
Identify a true statement about Aristotle's tragedies.
Carefully structured plots are basic.
Identify the elements of drama as stated by Aristotle. (Select all that apply.)
Character Plot Diction Music
Identify a characteristic of modern dramas.
Critics have said that there is no modern tragedy because there can be no character noble enough to engage people's heartfelt sympathy.
Identify one difference between dialogue and soliloquy.
Dialogue moves the action forward by telling people about the importance of the situations in which the actors speak.
______ is a collaborative art that represents events and situations, either realistic and/or symbolic, that people witness happening through the actions of actors in a play on a stage in front of a live audience.
Drama
Around the time of the production of The Gaol Gate in 1906, what were the people of Ireland were concerned about?
England's rule over Ireland
True or false: Archetypal patterns are exclusive characteristics of tragic plays.
False
True or false: Samuel Beckett proved that the traditional elements of drama are important for intensive participative experiences.
False
Which statement correctly describes one of the primary archetypes in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?
Lovers who are not permitted to love, and whose relationship ends in death
Who are the main characters of The Gaol Gate?
Mary Cahel Mary Cushin Dennis Cahel
The proponent of New Comedy was Blank______.
Menander
Identify a true statement about archetypal drama.
One's search for personal identity can serve as a primary archetypal structure for drama.
Which of the following is true of Aristotle's thoughts on tragedies?
Plot is much more the center of interest than character.
How are modern-day proscenium theaters different from the ancient Greek and Elizabethan theaters? (Select all that apply.)
The Greek and Elizabethan stages are designed in such a way that they involve the audience more directly spatially than the proscenium theaters do. The Greek and Elizabethan stages are not as explicitly framed as the proscenium theaters.
Thought
The ideas that underlie the plot of a drama, expressed in terms of dialogue and soliloquy
Diction
The language of a drama, which should be appropriate to the action
Spectacle
The places of the action, the costumes, set designs, and visual elements in a play
Character
The presentation of a person or persons whose actions and the reason for them are more or less revealed to the audience
Which of the following are important archetypes used frequently in theatrical drama? (Select all that apply.)
The quest for self-identity The loss of innocence An older man betrayed by a trusted, younger man
Misers
Their entire lives are devoted to mercenary goals.
Hypochondriacs
Their every move is dictated by their imaginary illnesses.
Identify an accurate statement about playwright Sean O'Casey's views on the combination of tragedy and comedy.
There is no tragedy that is not tinged with humor.
Malcontents
They are forever looking at the dark side of humanity.
How do good dramatists handle stereotypical characters in New Comedy?
They make stereotypical characters unpredictable.
What do tragicomedies usually do?
They tend to reveal the ambiguities of the world.
Identify a characteristic of ancient Elizabethan plays.
They used very little stage scenery.
Identify a characteristic of masques.
They were entertainments with mythic narratives.
What is the significance of the soliloquies in Shakespeare's Hamlet?
To offer deeper insights into Hamlet's character To show us a character's psychological interior
True or false: The absence of a separate stage in ancient Greek theaters put the actors on the same level as those seated at the lowest level of the audience.
True
When does the strongest effect of tragedy occur in a drama?
When recognition and reversal happen at the same time
Irony and Satire
Winter
The basic psychological pattern that people apparently react to on a more or less subconscious level is known as a(n) Blank______ pattern.
archetypal
Quest narratives reveal an aspect of
basic human desires.
Normally the Blank______ character(s) fails and the Blank______ character(s) succeed in their struggle.
blocking, younger
The primary dramatic interchanges in a play are achieved by Blank______.
dialogue
In the play, Fences, Troy Maxon faces relationship challenges with Blank______.
his son, Cory his wife, Rose
Few archetypes can be more tragic than the death of young lovers because a couple in love represents
life fertility
In Shakespeare's time, death was a metaphor for Blank______.
making love
The special entertainments at the courts of Queen Elizabeth and King James during Shakespeare's time were Blank______.
masques
Modern drama tends to avoid traditional tragic structures because
modern concepts of morality, sin, and fate have transformed.
In most cases, the Broadway musical is
more popular than standard drama.
Aristotle considered Blank______ to be an important part of the dramatic experience—"a very real factor in the pleasure of the drama."
music
As opposed to character dramas, action dramas prevail mostly
on the popular stage. on television.
The circular area in ancient Greek theater where the action took place is known as the Blank______.
orchestra
The power of the archetype derives, in part, from
our recognition of a pattern that has been repeated by the human race throughout history.
The Blank______ is an example of an archetypal structure that frequently recurs in drama.
quest narrative
Miranda used music that some thought was inappropriate for the musical theater because he wanted to
reach people in his generation.
The word comedy comes from
relative of the wine god
What genre of music makes Hamilton's lyrics and songs so distinctive?
Hip-Hop
Identify a true statement about soliloquy in a play.
In the best of soliloquies, the character does not speak to the audience.
Who founded the Abbey Theatre?
Isabella Augusta Gregory William Butler Yeats
Which of the following is true of New Comedy?
It avoided the brutal attacks on individuals, such as Socrates.
The altar
It indicated the religious nature of the festival of Dionysus, during which plays were presented.
Identify a feature of Old Comedy.
It is still present in the routines of nightclub comedians around the world.
The paraskenion
It provided entrances and exits.
Which of the following statements are true of Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade?
It regarded audiences as comfortable, pampered groups of privileged people. It was influenced by Antonin Artaud's radical antiestablishment thinking.
The skene
It represented a home or palace against which the action was set.
What does the association of genres of drama with the four seasons by Northrop Frye in Anatomy of Criticism suggest?
It suggests that some archetypal drama may be rooted in connections between human destiny and the rhythms of nature.
Identify a feature of New Comedy.
It tends to be suave and subtle.
Troy Maxon, the main character in Wilson's Fences, can be described as Blank______.
53 years old regretful of missed opportunities a garbage collector
Plot
A series of events leading to disaster for the main characters who undergo reversals in fortune and understanding but usually ending with a form of enlightenment
Identify the significance of music in drama. (Select all that apply.)
In Greek drama, the dialogue was sometimes sung or chanted. In modern drama, music is rarely used in serious plays.
Identify an attribute of Samuel Beckett's dramas.
Some of his plays were written with no words at all.
Comedy
Spring
Romance
Summer
What does archetypal drama aim at?
Symbolic or mythic interpretations of experience
The quest for was parodied in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.
self-identity
Richard Schechner's Dionysus in '69 eliminated Blank______.
spatial separation
A difference between the ancient Greek stages and the Elizabethan stages is that
the Greek stages had open amphitheaters, whereas the Elizabethan stages were roofed wooden structures.
A difference between dialogue and soliloquy in plays is that in soliloquy Blank______.
the characters apparently speak to themselves, but dialogue is the exchange of conversation among the characters
A difference between dialogues in older plays and dialogues in more-modern plays is that
the individual speech of a character in older plays might be relatively long, whereas it is often extremely short in more-modern plays.
An accurate statement about Romeo and Juliet is that
the youth and innocence of the main characters add to their remarkable appeal.
An attribute of blocking characters in New Comedy is that
they are so rigid that their behavior is a form of vice.
An accurate statement about protagonists in the most powerful Greek tragedies is that
they bring their misfortune upon themselves.
New Comedy developed type characters because
they helped focus upon the foibles of social behavior.
The plot of The Gaol Gate centers on
two women trying to help a man who is accused of murder by the government and informing by his neighbors.
Another important archetypal pattern in Romeo and Juliet is the
union of sex and death.
Ancient Greek comedies were performed at a time associated with Blank______.
wine making
