thea 1000 test 3
Shekspeare had ____ children
3
Seen as the first important Greek dramatist
Aeschylus
Wrote the oresteia
Aeschylus
The popular entertainments of Rome
Appealed to everyone
Wrote comedies that made fun of social political or cultural conditions
Aristophanes
Always seen with a slapstick
Arlecchino
Very often outsmarts his master
Arlecchino
The italtian renaissance saw great innovations in
Art Literature Science
Cowardly braggart solider
Capitano
Elizabethan playwright known for his "Mighty lines" killed in a tavern brawl at age 29
Christopher Marlowe
Clever servant. Arlecchinos counterpart and love interest
Columbine
What was the name for the full-length nonreligious play of the spanish golden age
Comedia
The head of a roman acting troupe was called a
Dominus
Which of the following plays were written by Christopher Marlowe
Dr Faustus
Noted for his sympathetic portrayal of women characters
Euripides
Took a skeptical attitude toward the gods
Euripides
A Dominus is a scene in Greek theatre that uses a dominant character
False
The god dionysus, to whom the greek dramatic festivals were dedicated was the god of war, death and chastity
False
The plot of Oedipus Rex is episodic in structure
False
Lower-class spectators who stood in the yard of an elizabethan theatre were called
Groundlings
Actors in an Elizabethan theatre contracted for a specific period of time at a specific salary are called ____
Hirelings
Author of the Ars Poetica
Horace
Believed that drama should both instruct and entertain
Horace
The roman counterpart of Aristotle was
Horace
The Young Lovers
Inamorata
Repeated bits of comic business used in commedia dell arte are called
Lazzi
Spanish Golden Age playwright who is said to have written 800 play
Lope de Vega
French comic writer, greatly influenced by the commedia dellarte author Tartuffe
Moliere
An old miser who always lusts after women who are too young for him
Pantalone
The great innovation in Italian Renaissance scenic design was
Perspective and scene painting
In the 4th century BCE a work on dramatic criticism was written. Name it,
Poetics
May have influenced Shakespeare Hamlet
Seneca
Often wore plays where supernatural beings appear in the dramatic action
Seneca
Wrote tragedies similar to those of the Greeks, but considerably more violent
Seneca
Wrote Oedipus Rex
Sophocles
Thespis became the first Actor by
Stepping out of the Chorus
Elizabethan public theatre. home of shakespeare acting company
The Globe
The modern theatre design of a proscenium arch stage and pit, box, gallery seating comes from
The italian renaissance
A gallery called the cazuela was where unaccompanied women in spain sat to watch a production
True
All violence was kept offstage in Greek theatre
True
IN spain, women had their own are in the theatre where they were guarded
True
Spanish public theatres were called Corrales
True
The only theatrical form from the italian renaissance that survives in its original form is Opera
True
English playwright who wrote "Much Ado about Nothing"
William Shakespeare
The foolish commedia servants were known as
Zanni
The wooden sword used in commedia de arte comic fights are called a
slapstick
Theatre in the golden age of greece was
tied to religion part of large festivals that lasted several days performed in masks
