Final

Question 1

What Four elements must be present for a theatrical tradition to begin?

Answer 1

tribal well being,rising nationalism, Less religious control, emergence of 1 or more great artist.

Question 2

For what purposes were early dramatic rituals used?

Answer 2

Win wars, Change the weather, win the favor of the gods.

Question 3

Where did Western theatrical tradition begin?

Answer 3

Greece

Question 4

What were the choral odes from which greek dramatic literature evolved called?

Answer 4

Dithyrambs

Question 5

Who wrote Oedipus Rex and added a third actor to the players?

Answer 5

Sophocles

Question 6

What are the characteristics of a Greek tragic her?

Answer 6

Good man of noble birth gets into trouble through no fault of his own, has a fatal character flaw.

Question 7

What are the six elements of criticism in the Poetics

Answer 7

Plot, Characters, Language, theme, music, spectacle

Question 8

What medieval choral form, like the dithyramb gave rise to liturgical drama?

Answer 8

Tropes “quem quaerities”

Question 9

Why did the church outlaw theatre in the Middle Ages?

Answer 9

Get rid of paganism, because of its decadence.

Question 10

What were the major forms of Medieval liturgical drama?

Answer 10

Morality, Mystery, Mirical Plays (three M’s)

Question 11

What were the themes of Medieval liturgical drama?

Answer 11

Church tenets(mortality), Bible Stories(Mystery), Saint (Mirical)

Question 12

What did Italian Renaissance contribute to the Theater.

Answer 12

Painted scenery, pit box and gallery seating, universal themes.

Question 13

What was the improvisational theater developed in Italy called?

Answer 13

Commedia del Arte

Question 14

What were the religious plays written during the Spanish Renaissance called?

Answer 14

Autosacromentalis

Question 15

The French playwrights followed the Aristotelian form of the unities, What are the unities?

Answer 15

Action, time, and place.

Question 16

Name three French renaissance playwrights?

Answer 16

Racien,Corneille, Moliere

Question 17

Of the Three playwrights from French renaissance was considered the greatest comic dramatist of France and, like Shakespeare, a true man of the theatre because he was an actor manager as well as a playwright?

Answer 17

Moliere

Question 18

What is the period of theater called that followed Charles II’s return to England?

Answer 18

Restoration

Question 19

What theatrical convention did the returning nobles bring to England from the continent?

Answer 19

Women on stage, indoor theaters with painted scenery

Question 20

Who were the first men to receive Royal Patents to produce theater?

Answer 20

Killigrew, and Davenant

Question 21

What contemporary theaters still operate on the patents of Killigrew’s Theatre Royal and Davenant’’s dorset Garden Theatre?

Answer 21

Drury Lane, Covent garden opera house

Question 22

Restoration comedy was based on Moliere’s comedy of manners. What are the characteristics of comedy of manners?

Answer 22

Poked fun at social conventions, satirized the upperclass, emphasized sexual innuendo, and had witty dialog.

Question 23

Acting companies took on a different managerial style during the Restoration. What was the prominent management style?

Answer 23

Star system

Question 24

The 18th century was noted for its globalization, developments in learning and philosophy as well as governmental change. What is this period called?

Answer 24

Age of Enlightenment

Question 25

What new dramatic form replaced the neoclassical form in french drama?

Answer 25

The Drame

Question 26

There are two forms of these dramas. What were they called and what were their characteristics?

Answer 26

The domestic drame, and the bourgeoisie they are mellow dramatic. Melodramatic and romantic in nature. Characteristics are cost to effect, plotting, contrived climax

Question 27

Name three writers of note from the 18th century.

Answer 27

Sheridan, Gurtia, Goldonie

Question 28

The French drame took a more melodramatic turn in Germany with a tendency toward naturalism and violence. This school of play writing was called what?

Answer 28

Sturm und Drang

Question 29

What Italian family became they noted scenic designers of the 18th century? They instituted masking top borders, ground rows, and multiple point perspective painting.

Answer 29

Bibena

Question 30

What 18th century writer/actor/managers are credited with beginning of the theatrical director? They believed that one person should be responsible for all the major artistic decisions.

Answer 30

Garrick, Goethe

Question 31

The early 19th century brought about mechanization and the development of factors as an expansion of an urban working class. This period is called what?

Answer 31

Industrial Revolution

Question 32

Many acting families became popular during the Industrial revolution. Two of the most prominent families were who?

Answer 32

Kembles, and Keans.

Question 33

Define Climactic plot structure?

Answer 33

Few characters, few locations, starts late in the story

Question 34

How was the Spanish Renaissance different from the English Renaissance in the writing of dramatic literature?

Answer 34

Spanish wrote secular and liturgical(church) drams. English wrote only Secular.

Question 35

How were the Spanish Renaissance and the English Renaissance similar in theater architecture?

Answer 35

They were outdoor stages with no painted scenery, it also had pitbox and gallery seating.

Question 36

How did they move the painted sceneries during the Italian Renaissance?

Answer 36

With poles and chariot systems.

Question 37

What makes Shakespeare's plays great?

Answer 37

Universal themes, use of language, ongoing action off stage, and understanding of human psychology.

Question 38

Who were the two most prominent names in operetta?

Answer 38

Gilbert and Sullivan

Question 39

What are the characteristics of a well-made play?

Answer 39

Build mechanically to climax. Cause effect motivation. Intended to arouse audience. Intent/contrived climaxes rather than truthful characteristics of emotions

Question 40

What movement in playwrighting proposed that everything on stage should resemble everyday life?

Answer 40

Realism

Question 41

Who was the father of ralism

Answer 41

Ibsen

Question 42

Name some theatre forms that were a departure from Realism.

Answer 42

Surrealism, expressionism, symbolism, dadaism, aburdism, The ISIMS

Question 43

What are the themes of absurdist theatre?

Answer 43

Humans are doomed to live in pain and anguish, and life is meaningless.

Question 44

What Russian director created a new technique of acting in response to the realist movement?

Answer 44

Constantin Stanislavski

Question 45

What was the new technique of acting called in the United States?

Answer 45

"Method"

Question 46

What member of the Group Theatre became noted teacher of the Russian acting technique to actors like Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe?

Answer 46

Lee Stransberg.

Question 47

What were the influences that helped form the American musical comedy?

Answer 47

Burlesque, Operetta, Minstrel shows, Ballad opera.

Question 48

One of the departures from Realism, Epic theatre, was developed in Germany by whom?

Answer 48

Bricht

Question 49

Who did Queen Victoria name the first Master of Revels early in her reign?

Answer 49

Charles Kean

Question 50

What innovation is Charles Keen in theatre is he noted for?

Answer 50

The merchant of venice

Question 51

What innovations in theatre presentation was Sir Henry Irving noted for?

Answer 51

Masking the stage for light spill, Darkening the audience, closeing curtains for scene change.

Question 52

What are the attributed of epic theatre?

Answer 52

Scene stands on there own. Scenes Introduced with by signs or narration. Music erupts for no reason, Alienation of the audience (alienation effect)