Theatre Arts Test Two
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- Heavens
- a roof with the signs of the zodiac painted on its underside
- Shakespeare
- greatest dramatist of all time
- Andronicus
- wrote the first Roman drama
- Aeschylus
- the father of tragedy; wrote Oresteia the only surviving Greek trilogy
- Seneca
- wrote closet dramas
- Lorraines Hansberry
- first African American and youngest person to win a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for A Rasin In the Sun
- dus ex machina
- god from the machine
- trilogy
- three plays related by theme, myth, or characters
- Morality play
- teach the difference in right from wrong
- innamorati and innamoratae
- stock characters of commedia dell'arte; beautifully dressed young lovers
- Sophocles
- wrote Oedipus Rex and Antigone
- Aristophane
- wrote Old Comedy
- Charlotte Cushman
- known abroad for her acting talents; played male roles
- soliloquy
- a speech delivered by an actor alone onstage
- Euripides
- master of pathos
- Barrymores
- family that produced fine actors in America still today even
- Zeami
- created No theatre
- pathos
- human compassion
- groundlings
- playgoers who stood in the pit
- machina
- crane-like hoist that made actors appear to fly in Ancient Greece
- lazzi
- humorous stage business
- pit
- area surronding the stage
- bunraku
- japanese doll theatre
- Mystery plays
- based on biblical history
- Dionysus
- greek god of wine
- inn yards
- the design of Elizabethan theaters was inspired by
- closet drama
- play meant to be read rather than seen
- Passion play
- play based on the last week of Christ's life
- cycle
- series of short plays depicting religious history from creation through doomsday
- Commedia dell'arte
- performed by professionals specializing in comedic improvisation; formed in Italy
- English Royal Patent
- woman appeared in theatre due to the what
- chorus
- explains situation to audience, comments on action, engages in dialogue w/ actors
- mansions
- platforms in churches that represented biblical settings
- blank verse
- Christopher Marlowe introduced the firs use of what
- Peking Opera
- combines the five main types of drama; Chinese
- Stanislavski
- gave us method acting
- raked
- stage floor sloped upward
- Menander
- wrote New Comedy
- Charles Gordone
- first African American to earn a Pulitzer Prize for drama
- kabuki
- form of japanese theatre for the general population, features beautiful costumes and heavy makeup
- tiring house
- actor's dressing room
- Calderon, Cervantes, Lope de Vega
- three great Spanish playwrights (alphabetical order)
- no
- ancient form of japanese theatre; only male actors, combines dance, words, and rhytmic music
- folk drama
- secular drama presented for folk festivals
- opera
- developed by scholars in Florence, Italy during the Renaissance; features high pitched singing
- Jonson, Marlowe, Shakespeare
- three great Elizabethan playwrights (alphabetical order)
- The American Company
- first professional company to produce plays in the colonies
- Ibsen
- the father of modern drama
- skene
- hut where actors changed clothes and masks in Greecian drama
- Saint plays
- plays based on legends of saints; also called miracle plays
- Everyman
- only still existing example of a morality play
- ampitheaters
- large circular arenas
- Plautus and Terence
- Roman writers of comedy
- Kabuki
- combines aspects of No and Bunraku
- Goethe
- gave us the principles of critque
- Moral Interlude
- shorten verion of a Morality play and more humorous
- tragos
- word that tragedy is derived from
- Thespis
- first actor; word thespian comes from his name