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Theatre test 1
intro to theatre terms
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Undergraduate 2
02/12/2012

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Theatre requires 3 things:
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Actor, audience, space
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Greek theatre started with the festival of ________
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Dionysus
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First playwright and actor
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Thespis
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Tragedies must have a _________, which has an excessive good quality that brings about problems.
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tragic hero
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Comical plays consisting of a chorus of mythological satyrs
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Satyr plays
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Political satire plays
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Comedy plays
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During ancient Greek plays, actors wore:
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Masks covering their entire head
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t/f: Women as well as men performed in Greek theatre
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false: just men
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The only surviving Greek Trilogy
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The Oreisteia
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Wrote the Oreisteia
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Aeschylus
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Wrote Oedipus and Antigone
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Sophocles
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Wrote Medea and The Bacchae
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Euripides
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Old Comedy started in the ____ century
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5th
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wrote The Clouds, The Frogs, and Lysistrata
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Aristophanes
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Type of play characterized by fantasy, lewd humor, and attacks on the government
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Old Comedy
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New Comedy was introduced in the ____ century
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4th
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Wrote The Grouch, the only surviving comedy
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Menander
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Type of play characterized by situational comedy, domestic situations, and middle class characters--like today's sitcoms
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New Comedy
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the second actor
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Aeschylus
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the third actor
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Sophocles
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Where the audience sits in an amphitheatre
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theatron
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the aisles on the sides of the seating in an amphitheatre
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parodos
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where actors make entrances and exits; the backdrop
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skene
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where the chorus dances, sings, and chants
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orchestra
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Alexander the Great
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3rd c. BC; Hellenistic Period
Pupil of Aristotle
Spread Greek Theatre by establishing libraries that preserved play texts
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t/f: Roman plays had the same type of chorus.
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false: they were reduced or eliminated
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where theatregoers can enter and exit easily (like at the Ferrel Center)
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Vomitories
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Roman version of the skene
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Facade
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Wrote The Menaechmi
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Plautus
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Wrote Tragedy, which was never produced; a closet drama
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Seneca
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t/f: Tertullian was against theatre
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True
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