Theatre Exam Review
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- scene stealing
- diverting attention from other actors
- christopher marlowe
- who introduced the first use of blank verse?
- innamorati and innamorate
- beautifully dressed young lovers
- commedia dell'arte
- who were comic troupes that improvised scenerios?
- menander
- who wrote new comedy?
- goethe
- principles of critisism?
- euripides
- who became a master of pathos
- pitch
- the relative highness or lowness of a voice at any given time
- quality
- individual sound of your voice
- nasality
- occurs when vowel sounds are diverted from oral cavitys into nasal cavitys cutting down the resonance and leaving the voice flat
- schwa
- the vowel sound unstresses syllable pronunced as a soft "uh"
- spontaneity
- freshness- the appearabce that this is the first time and peoeple dont know whats next
- improvisation
- the portrayal of a characher or a scene with out rehearsal or preparation
- sophocles
- who wrote antigone and oedipus rex?
- ben johnson
- who specialixed in comedy and expanded the use of "the humors"?
- tongue teeth jaw cheeks hard and soft palates
- what are the articulators
- diction
- the selection and pronunciation of words and their combination in speech
- dionysus
- what god were they worshiping?
- anton checkhov
- who was the greatest russian dramatist
- lorraine hansberry
- who was the first african american person to win the new yorks drama critics circle award for her play a raisin in the sun
- illusion of the first time
- making audience feek that each preformance is the first
- platus and terence
- who were two roman comedy writers?
- rate
- the speed at which words are spoken
- andronicus
- who was the first roman drama written by?
- william butler yeats and lady gregory
- irish theatre
- volume
- the relative strength force or intensity with which sound is made
- capek brothers
- who wrote expressionistic plays that delt with social issues
- pronunciation
- using the correct vowel and consonant sounds in words
- motivated sequence
- experience stimulus primary response idea connection, secondary response, REACTION!
- aeschylus
- who is sometimes called the greek father of tragedy?
- william congreve
- who set a standard for later comedies
- resonance
- vibrant tone produced when sound waves strike the chambers of the throat head nose and mouth
- aristophanes
- who wrote old comedy such as the frogs and the birds?
- orestieia
- what was aeschylus' most famous work?
- william wycherley
- who started the fashionable trend of comedies
- monotone
- results from speaking continuously on the same level
- character centered
- focused on one/group of characters who experience different situations one after another
- pirandello
- plays revolve around the conviction that people are not what they seem
- cervantes, lope de vega, calderon
- who were the three greatest spanish playwrights
- tragos
- what was another name for the "goat song''
- stanislavski
- who created method acting?
- mouth nose throat sinus cavities
- what are the resonators
- inflection
- variety in pitch
- voiceless
- no vibration of the vocal chords
- 6th century BC
- when did western drama begin to develop?
- opera
- what was created to revive the humanism of greek drama?
- situation centered
- single situation with a number of characters in the situation to demonstrate how different personalities will respond to it
- gerhart houptman
- who was the german who began the era of realism in theatre
- voiced
- vibratios of the vocal chords
- seneca
- who wrote closet dramas
- george farquhar
- who brought country life to stage?
- henrik ibsen
- who is known as the father of modern drama and realism?