Exm 4

Question 1

Where the audience members stood

Answer 1

Pit

Question 2

Seating for upper class

Answer 2

Boxes

Question 3

Upper tiers with open seating

Answer 3

Galleries

Question 4

Method of scene shifting. (On and off stage)

Answer 4

Groove system

Question 5

Newer, innovative scene changing system

Answer 5

Pole-and-chariot

Question 6

What place was the center of activity?

Answer 6

Italy

Question 7

What was the Italian renaissance period?

Answer 7

A period of exploration and invention. Are treated subjects as human beings, rather than religious subjects 

Question 8

Short pieces, depicting, mythological tails. Presented between the acts of bowling place. Often required spectacular scenic affects.

Answer 8

Intermezzi

Question 9

Short, ribald comic pieces. Subject matter is romance. Characters are Shepherd and mythological creatures.

Answer 9

Pastoral

Question 10

How was commedia dell arte performed?

Answer 10

With no set text. Invented words and actions as they went along. (Just a scenario and improv)

Question 11

Harlequins prop

Answer 11

Slap stick

Question 12

Italian critics formulated dramatic rules

Answer 12

Neoclassical ideas

Question 13

Drama should be “true to life” (plausible)

Answer 13

Verisimilitude

Question 14

Three unities of neoclassical ideals.

Answer 14

1. Unity of time
2. Unity if place
3. Unity of action

Question 15

What is violence forbidden in neoclassical ideals?

Answer 15

Yes

Question 16

The chorus and supernatural characters were acceptable 

Answer 16

False

Question 17

Opposed to the soliloquy (long monologue)

Answer 17

True

Question 18

The oldest surviving theatre built during the renaissance

Answer 18

Teatro olimpico in Vicenza

Question 19

Who were intrigued by language

Answer 19

The english

Question 20

The two primary playwrights during the Elizabethan period

Answer 20

Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare

Question 21

Who created the “mighty line”

Answer 21

Christopher Marlowe

Question 22

Who perfected dramatic poetry?

Answer 22

Marlowe

Question 23

Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine, Edward II

Answer 23

Marlowes works

Question 24

▪ Senecan dramatic devices
▪ Platform stage
▪ Powerful dramatic verse
▪ Source material from English history, Roman history and
drama, and Italian literature
▪ Episodic plot structure with roots in medieval theatre

Answer 24

Shakespeare

Question 25

 Romeo and Juliet  Julius Caesar  Hamlet  Othello  Macbeth  King Lear

Answer 25

Shakespeares tragedies

Question 26

 The Comedy of Errors  A Midsummer Night’s Dream  As You Like It  Twelfth Night

Answer 26

Shakespeares comedies

Question 27

Richard III Henry IV Henry V

Answer 27

Shakespeares history

Question 28

Who wrote the Spanish tragedy?

Answer 28

Thomas kyd

Question 29

Who wrote valpone, the alchemist

Answer 29

Ben Johnson

Question 30

Who wrote trick to catch the old one?

Answer 30

John middleton

Question 31

Private theatres

Answer 31

Indoor space is, lit by candles in high windows. Open to general public but smaller, and therefore more expensive.

Question 32

Blackfriars

Answer 32

Private

Question 33

The theatre

Answer 33

(Later the globe)

Question 34

The rose

Answer 34

Public

Question 35

The swan

Answer 35

Public

Question 36

Globe

Answer 36

Public (Shakespeare)

Question 37

Rarely used painted scenery. The stage space did not represent a specific locale. Required rapid scene changes. Most costumes were simply contemporary clothing, reflective of social classes been depicted. If needed, they would ask people for certain costumes

Answer 37

The scenery and costumes in Elizabethan period 

Question 38

included Philip Henslowe (manager); Edward Alleyn (tragic actor); Christopher Marlowe (playwright)  They generally resided in the Rose

Answer 38

Lord Admirals men

Question 39

under rule of Queen Elizabeth and later known as King’s Men when King James I took the thrown.  -Shakespeare was a member  -performed in the Theatre at first and later the Globe

Answer 39

Lord Chamberlins men

Question 40

companies made up entirely of boys.  It was unique then and would be today.

Answer 40

Boys company

Question 41

elite members of the company; received a percentage of the troupe’s profits as payment

Answer 41

Shareholders

Question 42

actors contracted for a specific period of time and salary

Answer 42

Hirelings

Question 43

young performers training for the profession; were assigned to shareholders

Answer 43

Apprentices

Question 44

mocked contemporary types and behaviors (Ben Johnson-Valpone)

Answer 44

Satiric comedy

Question 45

mild comedy of love and it’s follies (Shakespeare – As You Like It)

Answer 45

Romantic comedy

Question 46

London audience mirror of itself (Thomas Dekker – Shoemaker Holiday)

Answer 46

City comedy

Question 47

tragedy of the average citizen (Arden of Fevershan -anonymous)

Answer 47

Domestic tragedy

Question 48

gaining revenge over one’s evil doer (Thomas Kyd – Spanish tragedy)

Answer 48

Revenge tragedy

Question 49

had great vigor and focused on Renaissance problem of aggressive individual behavior with the Christian precept. Make the individual a villain at some time a heroic figure. (Macbeth – Shakespeare)

Answer 49

Villain tragedy

Question 50

showed English history usually in a favorable light (Shakespeare – Richard III)

Answer 50

History plays

Question 51

The theatre after Elizabeth’s reign

Answer 51

Jacobean period

Question 52

Masques ▪ Featured at the court and not found in public or private theatres ▪ They were mythological allegories intended to praise the monarch

Answer 52

Jacobean period

Question 53

Both religious and secular forms of theater flourish during the inquisition

Answer 53

In the Spanish golden age

Question 54

Who adopted the techniques of medieval religious drama, and continue to produce religious drama throughout their era and beyond

Answer 54

Spain

Question 55

Full length, secular place that usually dealt with love and honor

Answer 55

Comedias

Question 56

Given credit for writing 1800 plays in several hundred shorter dramatic pieces

Answer 56

Lope de Vega

Question 57

Who hired a young play writers and takes their credit

Answer 57

Vega

Question 58

The writer of the sheep’s well

Answer 58

Lope de Vega

Question 59

Who wrote life is a dream

Answer 59

Calderon de la Barca

Question 60

The theaters in Spain

Answer 60

The corrales

Question 61

▪ Where nonreligious plays by writers like Lope de Vega and Calderón were staged ▪ Constructed in existing courtyards ▪ Open-air spaces with galleries and boxes protected by a roof

Answer 61

The corrales

Question 62

compañías de parte

Answer 62

sharing companies, like those of Elizabethan England

Question 63

▪ Acting troupes consisted of 16 to 20 performers ▪ Included women (although the church did not support this

Answer 63

Spanish acting companies

Question 64

French Renaissance theater didn’t peak until

Answer 64

The 17th century

Question 65

Why did France get into theatre late compared to other European countries

Answer 65

Due to a religious Civil War, taking place in France between Catholics and Protestants

Question 66

French renaissance flourished under who

Answer 66

Louis XIV (14)

Question 67

Most important 17th-century French dramatists were

Answer 67

▪ Molière, noted for his comedies ▪ Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine, both known for tragedy

Question 68

Who were the first European after the Romans to construct permanent theater buildings?

Answer 68

The french

Question 69

The first permanent theater name

Answer 69

Hôtel de Bourgogne, completed in 1548

Question 70

Perspective painting

Answer 70

Italy started it, French use it, Spanish, sorta use it, English do not use it 

Question 71

Theater production in France

Answer 71

Acting companies were organized under a sharing plan, and had women members who could become shareholders