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World Theatre History III - Exam 1
Exam 1 - Western Illinois University
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 4
10/15/2012

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Term

Mideval Drama

 

CONQUERTAS

Definition

Chants done by priests in churches in Latin. 

 

(Latin is the language that the masses were done in.) 

Term

Mideval Drama

Drama in Churches

Definition

To the church front step ->

town square ->

it got so big the chuch wanted nothing to do with it. 

Term

Mideval Drama

_________ Pagent Wagon

Definition

Named after the town where it started. ex: Macomb Cycle

 

Put a set on a wagon and then moved from town to town.

Term

Comedia Del Arte

 

Definition

Italian Improv Comedy

 

Masks = stock characters

 

 

[Rennaissance theatre for ital performed for peasants travelling from town to town. 

Term

Theatre does not happen in a vacuum. 

 

Definition
It reflects the world around it!!!
Term

Aristotle 

 

Wrote _______

Definition
Poetics
Term

Aristotle

 

Poetics contains the 6 elements, which are...

Definition

plot

character

language

theme

spectacle 

music

Term

Drama - 

it has to be ____________. 

Definition
it has to be acted out
Term

A play must have:

________, ____________, and _________

Definition
Beginning, Middle, and end
Term
First Playwrights
Definition

Euripides, Eschalus, and Sophicles

 

Eschalus (wrote about gods)

Sophicles (wrote about heros)

Term
Classicism
Definition

FIRST themed theatrical style

 

Clear order - defined: 

Zues - primary god

other gods

demi gods

men

women

kids

 

Term

Mideval Drama

type of plays

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[3 M's]

Definition

Miracle

Morality

Mystery

Term

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[isms]

Definition

Classicism

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Mideval Drama

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Neoclassicism

Term

Neoclassicism

 

Definition

New Classics

Italian

 

Hard and fast rules: Plays needed 5 acts to be performed. 

Term

Neoclassicism

 

Different in England

Definition

We dont usually think about English Neoclassicism we think of 

RENNAISSANCE

Term
3 unities
Definition

time - 24 hours

place - one location

action - one plot/story

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