Final Exam
play by a woman
Katherine Philips wrote the first play by a woman to be staged by a professional company in Great Britain.
it was a mean to reach the illiterate masses
Why did theatre attact Johann Christoph Gottsched?
Kutiyattum
____________ was the only form of theatre to survive the Muslim rule of India.
The Licensing Act
________stopped English minor theaters from performing the plays of the patent houses.
Goldsmith and Sheridan
Playwrights and brought "laughing comedy" back to the British stage.
North America
The Theatre of Neptune was first play written and performed in _____________.
David Garrick
Which actor dominated the English Stage during the mid 1700's?
Vienna
Which city the most important center for Opera in 18th c. Europe?
Zeami Motokiyo
Who is considered the greatest of all Noh dramatists?
Parlimentarians
Who sought to stop all theatrical activity in England 1642-1660?
Alexander Sumarokov
Who was the first talented Russian dramatist?
Ciceri
Who was the most admired designer of the 1800's in France?
Bibiena family
Who was the most influential designer(s) of the 18th Century?
Theatre de La Republique
Actors left the Comedie Francaise to form ________.
composed libretti
Because of the prestige of opera, most Italian playwrights ________________.
German
Carl Andreas Paulsen managed the first ________________ troupe of note.
Killigrew and Davenant
Charles II issued a warrant giving exclusive theatrical rights to and .
Tieck and Schlegel
Deeply concerned with theatre, and called themselves Romantics
Romanticism and Melodrama
During the first half of the 19th century two new dramatic forms and were created.
actor
Edmund Kean was a famous _____________ of the period
3
How many general categories of Kabuki are there?
2
How many parts were Minstrel Shows divided into?
The Maly and The Bolshoi
Moscow had two theaters, for spoken drama and for opera and ballet
Dublin
Outside of 17th century London, the most important provincial center was ____________.
schools
Schroder and Iffland founded some of the best theatre ________________.
kamimono, shuramono, kazuramono, zatsu, kirimono
The 5 Noh drama types are ___________?
Philadelphia
The Chestnut Street Theater was the first to light it's stage with gas. In what city was it located?
Gotha
The first German state theatre was established in which city?
Charlotte Cushman
The first native-born American Actress to win international fame was ____________.
Loutherbourg
The most important designer of the late 18th century was _____________.
Civil plays and Military plays
The plays of Beijing Opera are generally classified under two headings and
John Philip Kemble
The stability of English theater because of the work of ______________.
Jim Crow
Thomas Rice created his comic caricature of African Americans called __________.
Sentimental
Today most of the drama of the 18th Century is called ________________.
Francois-Joseph Talma
What 19th century actor was often called the greates of all French actors'?
Prohibited the acting for "gain, hire, or reward" of any play not previously licensed by the Lord Chamberlain and It restricted theatres to the city pf Westminister
What are the 2 provisions of The Licensing Act of 1737 are and ?
Planche'
What designer created the book, History of British Costume, as a result of his research into historical clothing?
Storm and Stress
What is the definition of Strum und Drang?
Margaret Hughes
What restoration actress is the first to appear on the professional stage?
Venice
Which 18th c. city was the center of Italian theatre?
Dumas
Which French playwright's play could be divided into historical spectacles and domestic dramas?
Bunraku
Which Japanese theatre uses puppets
the Opera and Comedie Francaise
in 1700, there were only 2 legitimate troupes in Paris, and .
