(1) Evolution of Theatre

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Grandiosity, highly elaborate

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Neoclassical Theatre

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Morality plays

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Renaissance Theatre

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Puppeteers, jugglers, singers

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Medieval Theatre

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Combats and blood sports

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Roman Theatre

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Tragedy, Comedy and Satyr

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Greek Theatre

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Melodrama and Operas

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Romantic Period Theatre

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Use of technology

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Baroque Theatre

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Theater began from? (MRC)

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myth, ritual, and ceremony.

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Theatre means what?

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place of seeing

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European Theatre began when?

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700 BC (384 – 322 BC)

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3 well-known Greek tragedy playwrights

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Sophocles, Euripides, and Aeschylus

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It is done during festivals honoring their many Gods

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Greek Theatre

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Muse of Comedy

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Thalia

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Muse of Tragedy

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Melpomane

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(a compound of two Greek words tragos or “goat” and “won” meaning ode or song)

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Tragedy

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was the most admired type of play. It dealt with tragic events and have an unhappy ending specially one concerning the downfall of the main character.

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Tragedy

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First actor. He introduced the use of masks and was called the “Father of Tragedy.”

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Thespis

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the plays were derived from imitation; there were no traces of their origin. Aristophanes wrote most of the this type of play. (Lysistrata)

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Comedy

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these plays contains comic elements to lighten the overall mood or a serious play with a happy ending. This is a short, lighthearted tailpiece performed after each trilogy of tragedies.

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Satyr

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main component of Greek Theatre: literally the “watching place”

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Theatron

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main component of Greek Theatre: the “dancing place”

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Orchestra

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main component of Greek Theatre: “scene” or backdrop

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Skene

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The theater building of Greek Theatre. is a large, open-air structures constructed on the sloped of hills

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Theatron

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The theater of ancient Rome started in the?

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3rd century BC

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It had varied and interesting art forms such as festivals performances of street theater, acrobatics, the staging of comedies of Plautus, and the high-verbally elaborate tragedies of Seneca.

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Roman Theatre

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The usual themes for these theater plays were chariots races, gladiators, and public executions.

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Roman Theatre

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Comedy plays were popular too in the Roman Theater from?

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350 to 250 BC

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One of the first permanent (non-wooden) theaters in Rome, whose structure was somewhat like the Theatron of Athens.

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Triumvir of Pompey

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a columned quadrangle

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quadriporticus

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an elaborately decorated background of theater stage

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scaenae fron

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Theater performances were not allowed throughout Europe. To keep the theater alive, minstrels, though denounced by the Church, they performed in markets, public places and festivals. They travelled from one town to another as puppeteers, jugglers, story tellers, dancers, singers, and other performers in other theatrical acts.

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Medieval Theatre

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Medieval Theatre period was from?

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500 CE – 1400

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Were characterized by a return of Classical Greek Roman arts and culture. Morality plays. University drama were formed to recreate Athenian tragedy.

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Renaissance Theatre

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Italian comedy and a humorous theatrical presentation performed by professional players who traveled in troupes

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Commedia dell’arte

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a dramatic entertainment consisting of pantomime, dancing, dialogue, song and sometimes players who wore masks

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elaborate masques

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Renaissance Theatre period was from?

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1400 – 1600

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The famous actor and poet who emerged in this period. He was an English poet, playwright, and actor and was regarded as the greatest writer and dramatist in the whole world. 38 plays. “Bard of Avon.”

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William Shakespeare

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Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Much Ado about Nothing.

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William Shakespeare

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is a formalized form of dance which originated from Italian Renaissance courts.

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Ballet

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This is the area of a theater surrounding the stage opening. Arches frame and divide the stage from the audience.

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Proscenium

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for every scenery were popularized by the art of painting clothes.

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Backdrops

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It was quick-witted performance of the characters/players.

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Commedia dell’arte or “Comedy of the Profession”

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The theater of this period is marked by the use technology in current Broadways or commercial plays. The theater crew uses machine for special effects and scene changes which may be changed in a matter of seconds with the use of ropes and pulleys.

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Baroque Theatre

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Baroque Theatre period was from?

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1600 – 1750

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It was a movement where the styles of Roman and Greek societies influenced the theater arts. The theater was characterized by its grandiosity. Costumes and sceneries were highly elaborate.

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Neoclassical Theatre

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The main concepts of the plays were to entertain and to teach lessons. Stages were restyled with dramatic arches to highlight the scenes. Multiple entry points on the stage were evident in many plays. Lighting and sound effects intensified the mood and message of each scene, enhancing dramatic experience.

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Neoclassical Theatre

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Neoclassical Theatre period?

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1800-1900

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During this period, melodrama and operas became the most popular theatrical forms.

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Romantic Theatre

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Romantic Theatre period?

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1800-2000

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is derived from Greek melos, which means “music” and French drame, which is derived from the Greek dran to “perform”.

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Melodrama

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a dramatic work that puts characters in a lot of danger in order to appeal to the emotions and in which orchestral music or song was used to accompany the action.

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Melodrama

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is an artform in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text (liberetto) and musical score. Acting, scenery, costumes, and dance were important elements of theater.

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Opera

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He is considered as one of the greatest and best-known French writer. He was a poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. Among his works that stand out all over the world are Les Contemplations, La Legende des Siecles, Les Miserables, and the Notre-Dame de Paris which is known as the Hunch of Notre-Dame.

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Victor Marie Hugo

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a French composer and a pianist best known for his operas. Carmen is the most popular among his works. He composed the title role for a mezzo-soprano in the character of Carmen. The opera tells the story of the downfall of Don Jose, a naïve soldier who is seduced by the charms of the sizzling gypsy, Carmen.

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George Bizet