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THEATRE EXAM 3

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-Guarantee passing score -141 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation

Question 1: mystery plays

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Also called cycle plays. Short dramas of the MIddle Ages based on events of the Old and New Testaments and often organized into historical cycles

Question 2: the box set

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an arrangement in which flats are cleated together at angles - rather than parallel to audience - to form walls of the 3D room.

Question 3: PT Barnum

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founded the circus

Question 4: symbolism

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movement of the late 10th century & early 20th century that sought to express inner truth rather than represent life realistically

Question 5: morality plays

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Medieval drama designed to teach a lesson. The characters were often allegorical and represented virtues or faults

Question 6: Modern theatre in West began w/ these three dramatists

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Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, and Anton Chekhov

Question 7: Irving Berlin's birthday

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5/11/1888

Question 8: Elizabethan Theatre/ Playhouse

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platform stage that juts into an open courtyard, with spectators standing on 3 sides.

Question 9: George and Ira Gershwin

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Team of songwriting brothers. Ira the lyracist and George the composer Question 10: 3 categories of personnel in a company, Elizabethan acting companies

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shareholders, hirelings, and apprentices.

Question 11: Jim Crow

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stock character in minstrel shows

Question 12: verisimilitude

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meant that drama should be "true to life"

Question 13: Zanni

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Comic male servants in Italian commedia dell'arte

Question 14: Euripides

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(484-406 B.C.E.), 3rd most important,; rebel & most modern of the

• sympathetic portrayal of women, increased realism, tragedy/ melodrama/ comedy/ skeptical

treatment of gods. "Medea"

Question 15: Christopher Marlowe

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"Mighty Line" 1564-1593, advanced the art of dramatic structure and contributed a gallery of interesting characters to English drama. Perfected dramatic poetry.

Question 16: West Side Story

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American musical-romantic drama film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins.Question 17: early Greek theatre is well known for tragedies by these three. Also considered to be the 3 great dramatists of the period.

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Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

Question 18: ballad opera

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satirical w/ popular music and popularized by Beggar's Opera

Question 19: Victor Hugo

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Dramatist of Romantic Movement, greatest/ best known French writer

Question 20: Oklahoma

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Oscar Hammerstein II wrote the lyrics and libretto, Jerome Kern composed the music.

Question 21: Aristotle

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1st significant of the poetics; (384-322 B.C.E.); Greek philosopher like Socrates and Plato; 6 elements of drama. Wrote the Poetics

Question 22: Colosseum

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most renowned amphitheatre constructed by Romans, built around 80 C.E.

Question 23: Gilbert and Sullivan

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operettas

Question 24: Unity of time

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required that dramatic action in play should not exceed 24 hrs

Question 25: comedy of manners

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Form of comic drama satirizing social conventions that became popular in 17th century France & English Restoration, & which emphasized a cultivated or sophisticated atmosphere & witty dialogue.

Question 26: Sophocles

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(496-406 B.C.E.) 2nd most important; built on the dramatic form that Aeschylus began. Chorus from 12 to 15 and actors from 2 to

• "Oedipis Rex" and "Oedipus the King"

Question 27: choregus

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equivalent of modern day producer; wealthy person who financed a playwright's works at an ancient Greek dramatic festival