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
