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
