Introduction to Theatre test 4

Which one defines the term unites

A Neoclassicist mandate for playwrights, formulate by Italians critics

Kabuki theatre was originated by....

A Shinto priestess

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

Aeschylus

Who is considered to be the first important Greek dramatist?

Aeschylus

Who wrote Oresteia?

Aeschylus

Which one of these is not part of a Spanish corral

Amphitheatre

Who wrote Lysistrata?

Aristophanes

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 Johnson

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

Christopher Marlowe

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

Comedias

The theatre troupe Gelosi was know for their

Commedia dell' arte performances

Of the following, which do NOT include women in their ranks

Elizabethean acting companies

Of the following, who is considered the most modern?

Euripides

Which of the following demonstrated a skeptical attitude toward the gods?

Euripides

Which of the following is noted for his sympathetic portrayal of female characters?

Euripides

Which of the following was considered to be the most rebellious?

Euripides

Commedia characters did not wear costumes.

False

French theatre in the seventeenth century developed on its own trajectory, unaware of most of the Italian theatrical innovations.

False

The Elizabethans perfected the art of painted scenery for the theatre.

False

The Golden Age of Greece took place in the second century A.D.

False

The Greek amphitheatre is the first example of a proscenium theatre space

False

The first significant dramatic criticism, The Poetics, was written by Horace.

False

The god Dionysus, to whom the Greek dramatic festivals were dedicated, was the god of war, death, and chastity.

False

Under Islamic rule in India Sanskrit was encouraged

False

Which of the following is the author of Ars Poetica?

Horace

Shadow puppets are actually made of what material

Intricately carved leather

French writer of tragedies; author of Phaedra

Jean 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

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

Moliére

Everyman is a.........

Morality Play

Noah's Ark is a.......

Mystery Play

The Second Shepherds' Play is a...........

Mystery Play

Which two forms of Asian Theatre include long, narrow bridges (the Hashgakari and the Hanamici) used for actor entrances

NO and Kabuki

Which of the following wrote plays that dealt exclusively with domestic situations?

Platus

The scene-shifting method of changing wings is known as........

Pole-and-chariot system

Which of the following is NOT a component of commedia dell'arte

Scaena

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

Seneca

Which of the following added a third actor to the play?

Sophocles

Who wrote King Oedipus?

Sophocles

The comic playwright whose style is more literary and less exaggerated than that of the other Roman comic playwright is.......

Terence

Which of the following plays deeply influenced German playwright Bertolt Brecht?

The Circle of Chalk

The oldest surviving theatre is

Theatro Olimpico

Which of the following statements about Elizabthan private theatres is true?

They were open to the general public

Critics were more influential than playwrights in formulating dramatic rules during the Italian Renaissance.

True

Humanism was a major focus on Renaissance art form of the Italian Renaissance

True

Italian commedia dell'arte had no set text; it was improvisational

True

Kabuki plays feature beautiful scenic effects

True

Kabuki was performed first by all-female troupes, then boys, and finally men

True

No one knows where theatre originated

True

Sanskrit drama typically included both serious and comic elements, as well as a number of different locations and characters

True

Shakuntala is the most famous Sanskrit drama

True

Spectators, no matter where they were, were never far from the actors in an English Renaissance theatre.

True

The overriding concern of the neoclassicists was verisimilitude.

True

The plot of King Oedipus by Sophocles has a climatic structure

True

Three great Greek tragic playwrights are Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.

True

Elizabethean called a "playwright for the ages"

William Shakespeare

Unlike English Renaissance theatre, theatre in Renaissance Spain.....

continued to include religious themes

The stage is an Elizabethan public theatre was most like a contemporary

thrust stage