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1
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Cycle

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Sequence of plays to tell a complete story from the bible. Preformed on pageant wagons made by trade guilds. connected to Corpus Christi

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Corpus Christi

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Celebration of the Eucharist, big deal, had performers trade guilds responsible for making pageant wagons for the event. connected to cycle

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Quentin queritis?

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Whom do you seek?

First piece of dialogue inserted into Easter mass

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Dionysius

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Greek god of wine and theatre plays were used to honour him celebrated his annual “birth and death”

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5
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Dithyrambs

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A hymn used in theatre often honouring Dionysus

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6
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Deuteragonist

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The second important person after the protagonist

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Thespis

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First actor hence the name thespians

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Aristophanes

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Greek playwright wrote comedies satirical rude

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Euripides

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Greek tragedies, melodramas, based on misogyny

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Sophocles

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Greek playwright tragedies Oedipus changed chorus from 12 to 15 had up to 3 actual characters

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Aeschylus

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Greek tragedy focus on war, 50 men chorus

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Orchestra

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Area the Greeks and Romans had in their theatre. Later developed into the orchestra that we know today

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13
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Skene

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A changing room for the actors behind the stage

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Parados

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The entrance to the Greek theatre (pair of doors)

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Deus exmachina

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Crane like device to lift “gods” into the heavens

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Theatron

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A huge circle of seats carved into a hillside for audience members to sit in (Greek theatre)

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Paraskenia

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Two side building out of either side of the central building developed yo allow a wider range of entrances for plays by eupides and Aristophanes

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18
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Plautus

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Roman playwrighter. Introduced song and dance. Plots were based on love affairs and deception.

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19
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Trope

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Small plays preformed at mass

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20
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Morality plays

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Dealing with the right and wrong usually in the form of an allegory

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Mystery play

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Based on bible stores ex the second shepherds play

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Miracle play

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Based on lives of the saints

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23
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Interlude

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Concerned with no religious subjects or simply provided numerous entertainment. (Another step way from being religious)

24
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Shakespeare

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Famous play write born in 1564 and by the end of his career he had written 37 plays. 16 comedies 10 history 11 tragedies

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Richard Burbage

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1576 built a permanent structure to be used only for presenting plays. The theatre in 1599 was moved and renamed the globe

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Elizabeth I

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Took throne in 1558 when England was poor disorganized and weak. She was intelligent charming and loved poetry and theatre

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James I

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Elizabeth died 1603 and was succeeded by James the Puritan. He did not like theatre thought it as immoral and corruption. He shut it down using the plague as an excuse

28
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Charles II

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Came back from exile and booted James and started up theatre again by giving out royal patents. Now theatre has actresses, machinery and curtains.

29
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Greek theatres

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Hillside.

Natural scenery.

No curtains

Full circle orchestra

Violence too place off stage

30
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Roman theatre

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Flat

Elaborately decorated

Curtain

Semi circle orchestra

Violence was real and took place on stage switched out actors to kill Christians

Slaves killed got before performance

31
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Canadian theatre

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More shocking

Multicultural

Landscape

Satire/parody

Self critical

Experimental

Aboriginal

Reflective

Similar to American theatre

Reclaiming history

32
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Types of Opera

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Recitative - mimics speaking, replaces most to all spoken lines in show

Aria - when a character expresses personal feelings similar to a soliloquy

33
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Main types of puppetry

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Rod - held by a hand control the puppet

Marionette - puppets held in the air by string

Shadow - only the silhouettes are visible

34
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Conventions of new age theatre

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Minimum dialogue

Focuses on expression

Dance

Music

Acrobatics

Gymnastics

Theatrics

35
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Convections of epic theatre

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Breaking the 4th wall

Harsh lighting

Reading off stage directions out loud

Come out of the role by 3 person narration

Music is used to neutralize emotion

36
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Types of musical theatre

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Rock musical

Concept musical

Jukebox musical

Mega musical
Musical comedy

Musical drama

37
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Rules of improve

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Always add new information to the scene

Listen to respond appropriately

Think fast

Accept changes

Be open to ideas

38
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Sophocles

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Greek.

Content tragedy crisis

Increased chorus and introduced 3rd actor plays ex Oedipus

39
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Aeschylus

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Greek.

Content tragedy and war

50 man chorus reduced to 12 and one actor actor

40
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Euripides

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Greek

Content tragedy melodrama

41
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Seneca

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Roman

Content Tragedy closet dramas

42
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Aristophanes

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Greek

Content comedy, satire seen as mean and crude

43
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Ibsen

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Norwegian play write with controversial topic of women in male dominate society

44
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Chekhov

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Russian play write. Little action closet drama

45
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Beckette

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Irish play write theatre of the absurd

46
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Brecht

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German play write epic theatre and experimentalism

47
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Strindberg

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Swedish play write surrealism dream like

48
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Thomas killgrew

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Given a royal patent to revive theatre

Theatre- Drury Lane

49
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William Davenant

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Given a royal patent

Davenants duke house changed into gardens opera house

50
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Pinter

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English play write used a lot of pauses

51
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Prologue

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Introduction of a play spoken to the audience

52
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Restoration comedy

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Talks about different moral values

53
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Court masques

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Introduced during the first time women are performing. Many fancier set pieces never seen before

54
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Soliloquy

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Speaking thoughts out loud by yourself or with other people around

55
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Epilogue

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A speech at the end of the play used to comment on or conclude what happened

56
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Monologue

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Speech used to express mental thoughts out loud towards audience

57
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Aside

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A remark made to the audience that the other characters can’t hear

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