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| A circular playing space for the orchestra to play in. |
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| The scene in classical greek drama in which the chorus enters |
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| Where the audience sat in an ancient greek theater |
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| A group of performers who sang and danced |
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| Classical greek old comedy, debate scene between two opposing forces |
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| One of three classical greek drama types. Follows tragedies. |
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| Pokes fun at social, political, and cultural conditions. |
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| Hellenistic greek and roman comedies, deal with romantic situations |
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| Set up in either a town square, or one of the wagon stages |
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| Scene shifts using wheels and pulleys. |
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| Characters with clearly identifiable traits “Comedy of professional artists. |
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| Repeated physical action, bawdy, comedic |
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| Drama that is very similar to life |
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| An outdoor platform surrounded by the audience on three sides. |
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| Indoor theatre, generally smaller |
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| The stage house behind the raised platform. used for changing and storing props |
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| Tracks on the stage floor and above the stage are used for moving scenery |
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| The lower class class audience forced to stand on the ground |
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| Script containing only a specific performers lines and actions |
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| Character speaks inner-thoughts alone on stage |
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| Lavish spectacular court entertainment |
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| Full length, non-religious play of the spanish golden age |
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| a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly solved with the unexpected intervention of some new event, character, ability, or object. |
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| Poked fun at the social conventions of the upper class. Dey so snooty |
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| An annual actor specific performance from which he/she kept all profits. |
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| A new french form of serious play that did not fit the Neo-classical definition of tragedy |
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| Cut outs along the stage floor |
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| Curtains at the front of the stage |
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| Tightly constructed cause-and effect development, action revolved around a secret known to the audience, but not the actors |
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| music drama, refers to the background music |
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| Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress) |
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| Works patterned after shakespeare's episodic structure, with a variety of genres and onstage violence |
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| totally unified artwork, controlled by one person |
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| One of america's first significant female playwrights, wrote "Fashion" |
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| The process of keeping the audience emotionally detached from the play |
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| Episodic, great in scope, spanned many locations and periods of time. |
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| Focused on the sensory, believed viewers should be bombarded. |
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| A base set that can be altered to represent a variety of different places. |
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| Type of theatre that dramatizes with distortion, grotesque imagery, and unrealistic dialogue. |
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| Meant to present "a slice of life". Wasn't artificial. |
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| Meant to present dramatically the working of the subconscious. |
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| Sought to express inner truth rather than represent life realistically. |
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| Independent theatre founded in Paris in 1887. |
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| 3 types of Japanese Theatre and 1 characteristic of each |
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1. Nõ (Unique walking and masks)
2. Bunraku (puppet theatre)
3 Kabuki (face painting) |
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| Name 4 persons in the 18th and 19th centuries who pioneered and developed the position of the director. |
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| David Garrick, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Richard Wagner, George II. |
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| 3 dramatic forms from the 19th century |
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1. Romanticism (rejected artistic rules and the hero was a social outcast)
2. Melodrama (focus on emotions and conflict between good and evil)
3. Well-made play (cause/effect element and the "secret" is known to the audience but not performers) |
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| Titles of 5 plays from the 18th century |
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| The Rivals, The School for Scandal, the Contrast, The Good Natur'd Man, She Stoops to Conquer. |
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| Name 2 major playwrights and one of their plays (each) from the Spanish Golden age. |
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| Calderón de la Barca (La vida es sueño) and Lope de Vega (The Sheep Well) |
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| Name one comedy, one tragedy and one history play written by Shakespeare's |
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| Much ado about Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, and Richard II. |
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| Name the 3 unities of neoclassical ideals and give one characteristic of each |
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| Name 4 types of play from the middle ages |
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| liturgical dramas, vernacular dramas, cycle plays, morality plays |
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| Name the 4 major greek playwrights |
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| Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes. |
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