English Final- Theatre
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Contains info on Elizabethan theater, Shakespeare, and other important people in theater history
Contains info on Elizabethan theater, Shakespeare, and other important people in theater history
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- Stratford on Avon
- William Shakespeare's birthplace
- Miracle plays
- Focused on saints
- Eugen O'Neil
- Given credit for drawing world attention to American Theater
- Lord's Room
- Where nobles and wealthy sat
- Melodrama
- Dramatic composition that is absurd, fast-paced comedy
- Mystery plays
- Focused on life of Christ
- Arthur Miller
- Author of Death of a Salesman
- Aristophanes
- Wrote Lysistrata and was a Greek playwright who wrote romantic comedies
- Dionysus
- god for which early theater competitions were held
- 1564
- Year of Shakespeare's birth
- Traveling Minstrels
- Groups that performed on wagons during feasts
- Groudlings
- People who paid the least to see plays
- Meinigers
- Group that in the nineteenth century introduced a natural style of acting
- Athens
- Place where theater for pleasure originated
- Elizabeth I
- Queen in power during Shakespeare's time
- Sonnet
- Fourteen line poem consisting of three quatrains and one heroic couplet
- Henrick Ibsen
- Established realism as the dominant force in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century
- Menander
- Third major Greek playwright who wrote tragedies about men instead of gods
- Aeschylus
- Introduced second actor in hi plays
- Tennesse Williams
- Author of A Streetcar Named Desire
- Wedding
- Example of Ritual Theater
- Iambic Pentameter
- Meter Shakespeare used in his plays
- Prologue
- First sonnet in Romeo & Juliet
- Oscar Wilde
- Wrote The Importance of Being Earnest
- Anne Hathaway
- Wife of William Shakespeare
- Moliere
- French playwright who wrote farces
- Natural light
- Light used in Elizabethan theater
- No Scenery
- This scenery was used in Elizabethan theater
- Lord Chamberlain's Men
- Acting company Shakespeare worked for
- Flags
- Signals that a play was to be performed
- Thespis
- First actor
- Glover
- Occupation of John Shakespeare, William Shakespeare's father
- Morality plays
- Focused on people who portrayed abstractions such as "wealth"
- Henry VI, Part One
- Shakespeare's first major play
- Globe Theater
- Where Shakespeare first introduced his plays
- George Bernard Shaw
- Wrote the play that eventually became My Fair Lady
- Sophodes
- Author of Oedipus Rex
- Grammar School
- Last school Shakespeare attended