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Drama 1310
Chapter Four
1. Which is NOT true of dramatic genres?
2. Genre is
3. The chorus in ancient Greek theatre
4. Satyr plays
5. Aristotle’s Poetics
6. According to Aristotle, the best tragedies
7. Aristotle felt that a tragic hero should
8. Seneca’s tragedies
9. Which is NOT true of neoclassical tragedy?
10. The Elizabethan worldview consisted of the notion that
11. George Lillo’s The London Merchant is a(n)
12. Which is NOT a theatrical genre of medieval Europe?
13. It is difficult to write tragedy in the modern era because
14. Spanish Golden Age comedias
15. Comedy likely evolved from
16. Which is an example of transgression in comedy?
17. A character asking for “the perpendiculars” when she means “the particulars” is an example of
18. Satire is
19. Tragicomedy is a
20. Which of the following is an example of melodrama?
Chapter Five
1. Performance traditions
2. The Natyasastra
3. Which is NOT true of rasa?
4. In commedia, a lazzi is
5. Commedia dell’arte
6. Which is NOT a traditional commedia character?
7. Japanese noh Theatre
8. Noh plays
9. Yûgen is
10. The noh theatre space
11. Which is NOT true about Japanese kyôgen?
12. Kabuki began
13. The kabuki theatre is marked by
14. Korea’s t’alch’um
15. Which best describes xiqu?
16. Mei Lanfang was a xiqu performer who
17. Carnival’s influences include
18. The Rabinal Achi
19. The Bread and Puppet Theatre
20. Which is NOT true about Japan’s bunraku?
Chapter Six
1. The term avant-garde refers to
2. Improvisation
3. Which of the following best describes a commedia scenario?
4. During the 1960s, some artists
5. Which of the following was one of the earliest groups to collaboratively create theatre in which
performance text and dramatic text evolved together?
6. The Open Theatre’s The Terminal
7. Concert parties are a(n)
8. A nineteenth century performance that involved white actors wearing blackface to depict racial
stereotypes was a(n)
9. Futurist performance
10. Storytellers of West Africa are called
11. Documentary theatre is always
12. Recitative is
13. Operetta
14. Which of the following was one of the first forms of theatre to explore multicultural textual
elements and themes in America?
15. A book musical is a
16. The musical Showboat
17. The musical The Scottsboro Boys took risks because it
18. Labanotation is
19. Agnes De Mille’s choreography in Oklahoma
20. Robert Wilson is best known for his
Short Answers (5 points apiece)
Chapter 4
1. What are the characteristics of melodrama? Who was its audience?
Chapter 5
1. What is meant by the term “performing object”?
Chapter 6
1. What is mime? What is the process through which a mime performance creates a piece?