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INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA
Worth 100 Points
1-
Who were the ancient Greek plays written about?
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The ______________ festival was the one where the Greeks
gathered to perform their plays.
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In what season was this festival held?
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The Greek Theatre had one building at the back of the stage, name
it.
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What two things was this building used for?
6-
What was the name of the platform wheeled out on stage to show
a murdered character?
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Was set scenery used in Greek Theatre?
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Women were not allowed to act. Who played their roles and how?
9-
Describe costuming in the Greek Theatre.
10-
Who was the first actor? In what year?
11-
Who directed and acted in all of his own plays?
12-
Who was the tragic playwright who wrote Antigone?
13-
Who is considered the most modern of the ancient Greek
playwrights?
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Who was the great comedy playwright of the Greek era?
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Who was the Greek philosopher, who’s Poetics became a definition
of tragedy that is still observed today?
ROMAN THEATRE
INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA
1-
List two characteristics of the Roman Theater at its birth.
23-
What did the Romans call their raised acting area?
List some ways in which the Romans adapted the ancient Greek
hillside theater.
4-
Romans liked borrowing and enlarging ideas but never really
____________ anything.
_____________ was the top Roman write of Comedy.
Which present day comedian borrowed his style from the
Roman playwright Plautus?
Who was the tragic writer that had a tremendous influence on
the great English playwright William Shakespeare?
Seneca’s plays were intended to be read at home rather than
performed. These plays are referred to as ________
________.
Before Rome’s fall in 476 A.D., in what 3 ways was
entertainment starting to change?
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Who took over after Rome’s fall, and what happened?
MEDEVAL THEATRE
INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA
1-
How was drama kept alive during the Dark Ages?
2-
Why did the same church that killed Theatre bring it back to life?
3-
The Church that developed three forms of Theater known as
______________ Drama.
List and describe the three forms of Ecclesiastical Drama.
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5-
What was the name of the well-written, elaborate play which
portrayed the life and the crucifixion of Christ?
6-
Who was Hans Sachs?
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Late in the Medieval Period, a rebirth of curiosity and classic
learning took place. Travel started up again. Ancient plays
Terence, Plautus, and Seneca were reopened, reconstructed, and
reperformed. This rebirth of curiosity and classic learning came
to be known as Renaissance. (no answer needed on this one)
Name the two comic playwrights, whose material was funny and
amusing, but often lewd and immoral.
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What is Commedia dell ‘Arte and list several characteristics about
it?
10-
Although thought of as dead and dormant or unproductive, the
Middle Ages (Medieval Period) was actually a launching pad for
several developments in Theatre. (no answer needed on this one)
ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND/ RESTORATION ENGLAND
INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA
1-
Who is the Elizabethan England Era named after?
2-
Name the playwrights who helped lay the foundation for the
Elizabethan England Era.
3-
Who built the first playhouse in 1576 and describe it.
4-
Who was and still is by many considered to be the supreme writer
of great tragedy, for all time.
5-
William Shakespeare’s plays contained the essential ingredient to
any drama. What is it?
6-
Who was the playwright who, had he not died so young, might have
surpassed the talents and achievements of William Shakespeare?
7-
Elizabethan England is said to be the 2nd Golden Age of Theater.
What, in 1642, brought this era to an end, and who was
responsible?
8-
___________________ (1622-1673) stood out as the master
playwright of the Restoration England Era.
What were the characteristics of the plays themselves when the
English Nobility returned from France in 1660?
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In his publication “The Short View,”
________________________ angrily condemned the liberties
and immoralities which were taking place on the Restoration stage.
What officially and conveniently marked the end of the
Restoration Period, and what did it provide for?
EUROPEAN THEATRE IN TRANSITION/ 19th CENTURY ENGLAND
INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA
1-
What two things is the Frenchman, Voltaire, remembered for?
2-
The French playwright, Beaumarchais, did what for France during
the eighteenth century?
3-
Who was the playwright, whose play HERNANI (1830), introduced
Romanticism into the theatre?
4-
Who is the Scandinavian playwright considered to be the greatest
writer of Realism ever, and give several examples of issues he
wrote on.
56-
Name the Russian playwright who opened the Moscow Art Theatre.
Who was Adolphe Appia, and what is he known as?
7-
Not known as an age of brilliance in the theatre, describe the
characteristics of 19th century England.
8-
Describe Oscar Wilde.
9-
Describe Sir Henry Irving.
10-
Describe George Bernard Shaw.
EARLY AMERICAN/ MODERN AMERICAN THEATRE
INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA
1-
What happened and with whom in the year 1598
2-
What is significant about the year 1665?
3-
Describe the Minstrel Show, and name the man responsible for its
popularity.
4-
Describe Vaudeville and who Tony pastor was.
5-
What were the 2 reasons for Vaudeville’s fade from American
Theatre?
6-
Who was Clyde Fitch, and what is he most remembered for?
7-
Who is considered the greatest American playwright?
8-
Describe Eugene O’Neill and cite several of his characteristics and
accomplishments.
9-
Playwright who won 3 Pulitzer Prizes. Author of Our Town and
Matchmaker.
10-
Playwright, who’s A Streetcar Named Desire, won him a Pulitzer.
11-
Who was the playwright of the ‘50s, and list his two top works?
12-
Who was the playwright o the ‘60s, and list his most notable work?