Ch 5 medieval theatre

MULTIPLE CHOICE we consider to be the medieval period in Europe?

500-1550 C.E

Years considered medieval period in Europe

500-1550 ce

Dates for medieval theater trend later than those for other art forms

A and b only/time for societal relationship to be absorbed and theater demand broad appeal cross sections of society in a way other arts do not

Byzantine Empire

Continued to produce popular entertainment

During the early years of the Middle Ages, troupes of traveling performers presented comic, acrobatic, and circus-like entertainments. Because these performances were a vestige of the empire,

FALSE

Farce dramatizes the heroic exploits of folk heroes, and folk plays comically depict universal human weaknesses.

FALSE

Farce heroic exploits of folk heroes, and folk plays comically depict universal human weaknesses. TRUE OR FALSE

FALSE

Marys Women never performed in cycle plays. TRUE OR FALSE

FALSE

Nonreligious comic pieces of the Middle Ages did not differ in content greatly from vernacular religions drama. TRUE OR FALSE

FALSE

Some scholars describe morality plays as station dramas because they take place on stationary platforms. TRUE

FALSE

Stationary staging included series of small scenic by platform, erected inside a church.

FALSE

Street pageants were a type May Day game celebrated to herald the spring. TRUE OR FALSE

FALSE

Street pageants were a type of May Day game celebrated to herald the spring. TRUE OR FALSE

FALSE

The two kinds of religious vernacular drama are cycle plays and mystery plays.

FALSE

Throughout the early Middle Ages and into the High Middle Ages, people enjoyed secular entertainments such as May Day games, which featured phallic maypoles and celebrated sensual freedom. TRUE OR FALSE

FALSE

likely, costuming for cycle plays carefully reproduced clothing from earlier periods. TRUE OR FALSE

FALSE

Most actors in plays did not wear special costumes. The exception was for acto

God, who were dressed like the pope. angels, who wore church vestments. |a and b only

A short musical play that honored the saints and the Virgin Mary and was written for performance

Hildegard von Bingen

play with a Senecan plot structure that told a story about a conversion to Christianity renunciation of past sins, martyrdom, or penance in order to glorify Christian virgins was probably by

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Byzantine is important to theater history

Preserved classical Greek drama manuscripts

Protestantism hastened the end of religious theatre because

Roman Catholicism accused theatre of weakening the church and withdrew its support.

Because rehearsal time was minimal, actors were fined for missing or disrupting a rehearsal.

TRUE

Cycle plays were usually produced once every two to ten years. Some lasted days and days.

TRUE

Elizabeth I banned religious drama in England in 1559. TRUE OR FALSE

TRUE

Historians study French medieval drama differently than medieval theatre is in other countries because there is more documentation of plays from the period in France. TRUE OR FALSE

TRUE

Liturgical dramas were originally staged monasteries, and the general population did not attend.

TRUE

Medieval society became the first Western culture that did not practice slavery on a large scale.

TRUE

Quem quaeritis, a tiny play with a call and response between an angel and the three Marys

TRUE

Some scholars describe morality plays as station dramas because they take place on stationary

TRUE

The Quem quaeritis, a tiny play with a call and response between an angel and the three Marys visiting Christ's tomb, was a part of Easter service developed throughout the tenth century.

TRUE

The term mystery comes from ministerium, meaning a religious service or office, suggesting the religious origin of mystery dramas.

TRUE

The text of Everyman suggests that staging techniques for morality plays were similar to those for the cycle plays. TRUE

TRUE

The text of Everyman suggests that staging techniques for morality plays were similar to those for the cycle plays. TRUE FALSE

TRUE

is important remember that nonreligious drama was being performed at the same time as the

TRUE

The following play(s) was/were exemplary of nonreligious comic pieces

The Wandering Scholar from Paradise

Cycle plays used music in the following ways

a. The plays included choruses. An individual or a group of actors sang songs. The music entertained audiences before and after the plays. all of the above

Types of secular drama in this period included

b and c only farces. |folk drama.

Types of secular drama this period included

b and c only farces. |folk drama.

Medieval theatre producers would use halo effects

by reflecting light with shiny surfaces.

Floods, flying actors, and trapdoors

called "secrets" and overseen by a secrets master.

Typecasting means

choosing people with certain qualities in real life to play characters with those qualities.

Some secular drama was related to

church festivals. a and c only the Feast of Fools. all of the above the Boy Bishop festival.

English liturgical dramas

clergy, choir members, or students performed all roles church vestments served as costumes. a and b only

The following groups of people helped produce mystery pla ys

confraternities the church |trade guilds all of the above town councils

Byzantine empire

continued to produce popular entertainment.

play two or more different parts in a play is called

doubling.

The High Middle Ages the organization of the following for the first time:

guilds and universities

ions, which sometimes had flying machinery or spewed smoke, represented

heaven and hell

Theatrical pieces staged between the courses of a banquet in a banqueting hall were called

interludes.

dramatic form that was sung in Latin in churches was called

liturgical drama.

The three major categories of people in feudal society were

lords, vassals, and serfs.

A production of a play about Noah that included using barrels of rain to create the deluge onstage demonstrates that

medieval dramatists were interested in spectacle

Plays that taught a moral lesson by allegorical characters were called

morality plays

Th e introduction of professional actors to perform morality plays suggests that

morality plays were part of the transition from religious to secular theatre.

secular qualities of religious dramas finally overwhelmed the religious material.

mystery and cycle plays height of their popularity.

The following type of play dramatizes a series of biblical events, the lives and miracles of saints, and contemporary church doctrines

mystery plays

The neutral platform stage was

none of the above

The wagons used for plays may have been

one-story structures used in conjunction with either bare scaffold carts or the street used structures for carrying scenery and actors in tableaux that paraded through town to a stationary stage for the actual performance. all of the above

The Second Shepherds' Play demonstrates episodic structure by

shifting between distant locations. d.including both comic and serious elements having two plots. all of the above having many characters.

dates for medieval theatre trend later than those for other forms?

takes time for relationships in society (the primary topic of theatre) to be absorbed. Theatre demands broad appeal across sections of society in a way other arts do not d. a and b only

The center or society after the fall of the Roman empire was

the Roman Catholic Church.

The spatial elements used to stage liturgical dramas within the church were

the pulpit and a recognition space.

The historians surviving English cycle plays are based on

the towns in which they were staged.

Scholars think that church dramas in Latin transformed and moved outside the church hecause

they grew too elaborate to stage in churches. they grew too costly to the church, officials holy spaces for theatre. all of the above

What was the term for a form of extended musical passage that often call and response?

trope

What was the term for plays written in local languages such as Italian, French, Spanish, or English?

vernacular drama

term for plays written in local languages such as Italian, French, Spanish, or English?

vernacular drama

Cycle plays

were written in the vernacular and performed outside. appealed to large audiences and popular tastes. sometimes included anachronism. included comedic scenes. all of the above

The sottie

word for often critical of the church or religious figures. as a central character. all of the above

The earliest-known female dramatist is

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