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Study Guide #2 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?