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1
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The school of the arts created by Ming Huang in 714 CE

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Pear garden

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In the 19th century invading countries introduced what type of theatre

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western style/ colonial

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African theatre using acting , music, story telling, poetry , dance costumes and masks

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pre colonial

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According to joseph Campbell , ritual are related to 3 basic neeeds : pleasure, ___ , and duty

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power

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Rituals continue to play an important role in our lives today

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true

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6
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Which of the following does not involve mask

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peking opera

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used orchestra made up of gongs, cymbals, lutes, rattles, drums, castaners, and 2 string

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peking opeara

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African theatre is usually divided into 3 periods. which of these periods is the oldest

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precolonial

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which book is often considered to be the most valuable historiacal record of indian theatre

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natysastra

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10
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Which country invaded india and introduced western style theatre

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England

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11
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which one of the following is not an example of traditional Japanese theatre

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maki

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12
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many scholars agree that theatre grew out of

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ritual and story telling

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13
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what is bunraku

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traditional Japanese pupett theatre

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in this Japanese theatre the audience activily participates they call out an actors name

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kabuki

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15
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because in many ancient Islamic countries acting was outlawed _____ became popular

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shadow palys

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16
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how many years must a bunraku master train

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30

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17
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Modern African theatre that combines traditional African ritual and western style drama

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total theatre / post colonial theatre

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18
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theatre that comes form African, india, china, japan, arab, world is often called

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non western

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19
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early forms of theatre were based on established stock characters and plots called archetypes

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true

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20
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ritual theatre involves

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music, religion, dance

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21
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the first script

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ikhernofret stela

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22
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saskrit drama is a part of the traditional theatre of ____

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india

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23
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the Abydos passion play is an example of

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ritual theatre

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24
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which type of indian theatre is named for the ancient indian language

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Sanskrit

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25
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the Abydos passion play was about the

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the suffering and the triuphms of Osiris

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26
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in greek theatres the circular playing or “dancing place” was called

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orchestra

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27
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the greek word for the building that served as a backdrop and dressing room

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skene

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28
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this was the religious festival held each year during the spring time

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city dionysus

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29
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the word thespian means

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actor

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30
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the seating or seeing place in an ancient greek theatre was called the

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theatron

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31
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which greek general spread greek theatre

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alexander the great

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32
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an ending during which an implausible twist seat all the problems right

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deus ex machine

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33
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theatre in Athens grew out of a ritual called

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dithyramb

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34
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ancient greek trilogies were typically followed by a short comic relief play called a

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satyr play

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35
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who performed in mystery plays

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trade guilds

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36
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what type of play is the second sheperds play

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mystery

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37
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why did the church outlaw theatre

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,all of teh above pestilence .

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38
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these people idolized the romans and the greeks

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humanists

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39
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began with martin luther nailing compalints to the front door or the church at wittern berg

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the reformation

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40
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in 398 ce the church decreed ____ for all who attended the theater

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excommunication

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41
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a publicly displayed object serving as a reminder of mortality or death such as a skull

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memento mori

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42
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the years___ are most associated with the high middle ages or early renaissance

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1200-1450

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43
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during the middle ages plays about noahs ark or the magi were know as___ plays

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mystery

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44
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everyman is an example of a __ pkay

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morality

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45
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like the early Christians, muslims during the middle ages____ most theatrical activity

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didn’t supports

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46
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who performed tropes?

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clergy

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47
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roaming troupes of story tellers acrobat puppetters and jugglers

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mummers

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48
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a nun who used the plays of Terence as a model to write plays about the lives of saintly womane

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hrosvita

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49
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which of the following did not use allegory

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intervals

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50
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which of the following is the most secular

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interval plays

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51
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by 1515 all the know works of ancient ___ authors had been translated and printed

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greek and roman

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52
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which of the following describes humanism

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  • a vibrant intellectual movement
  • education with emphasis on the liberal arts
  • idolizing
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53
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where were morality plays performed

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on pageant wagons in the village square

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54
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Antropologist

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○ They study artifacts
○ People existed as hunter gatherers
○ They were often nomatic

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55
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Lascaux

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Cave paintings

56
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Shaman

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○ The first actor, maybe a source of wisdom as well as a history keeper

57
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What human impulses does theatre come from

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○ Storytelling

Ritual

58
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Rituals are related to 3 basic needs

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Pleasure, power and duty

59
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Ritual theatre

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○ Included song , dance, and characterization
○ Rooted by religion
○ All ritual is not theatre
○ has to have a conflict and a story, as well as characterization

60
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Ikehnofer Stelle

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§ Stone that had an entire script written with emojis

61
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Africa : Pre colonial theater

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§ Mainly ritual and storytelling
§ Made special use of masks
§  audience participation was requires 
§ Based on religion and occurred on found spaces 
§ Audince on all 4 sides
62
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Africa : Colonial theater

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§ Many mono religion s began to appear
§ These religions had no theater because anyone who acted as a god would be doing wrong
§ Slavery began to happen in africa
§ The people who came to colonizi africa did not want them to celebrate their culture

63
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Africa: Post colonial

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§ People began to return to theatre
§ Around the 1960s
§ Mixtured of african and europEAN STYLE

64
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African : Masks

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§ More eastern
§ Symbolic meanings
§ The audience would be able to identify the character

65
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Indian : the natvasatra

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§ Ancient theatre on dramatic theory and practice

66
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Indian : Sanskrit drama

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§ The oldest of indian languages and tell stories based on indian myths
§ Includes masks
Based on hinduism

67
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indian : kathakali

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dance drama

68
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Chinese : Peking

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§ The oldest of indian languages and tell stories based on indian myths
§ Includes masks
Based on hinduism

69
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Japanese : Bunroku

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§ Intricate puppet theatre in which puppet requires 3 operators
§ 2 people are covered completely while the masters face is shown
§ Mainly a family business
§ You do 10 years of practice for each section before you become a master

70
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Japanese: Noh theater

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§ Each play had a 3 part structure 
§ JO, HA, Kyu
§ During kyu, the main character performs a dance
§ Deepley connected to religion 
§ Passed down by family
71
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Japanese : Kabuki

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§ Ka is song bu is dance ki is skill
§ More for the common people
§ The most popular 
§ No maskaed used 
Based on the society of confusionism
72
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types of kabuki

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□ Hsitory plays about politcial events
□ Domestic plays 
® About loves and lives of people
□ Dance drama 
About the world of spritites and animals
73
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Islamic : shadow theater

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§ Images are forbidden in the koran
§ They used shadows t show these images
§ They also created puppets
§ Western influences also began to occur

74
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Islamic: Ta’ziyeh

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§ Religions drama in iran performed outdoors using animals

§ About the grandson of the prophet

75
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Islamic : talibans rulu

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Was a women in theatre

76
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romans: pax romana

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the peace of rome

77
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romans : circus maximus

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On a holiday to celebrate something

78
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romans : mime

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theater that does not have words

79
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romans : platus

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slapstick and comic

80
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romans: living adronicus

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first playwright thespis

81
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Terence

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from African and adopted popular plays

82
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Greek : Polis

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city stable was ex trading w Spartan

83
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d thyramn

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song sung to the god dienysos

84
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dyanysus

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god of fertility and theater celebreated in the spring time

85
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thespis

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1st actor on record

86
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choregas

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leader of the chorus

87
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theatron

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the seeking place

88
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skene

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temporary wooden structure

89
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orchestra

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dancing place

90
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parts of the play : prologue

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  • a short speech or scene by one or more actors that sets the location and time and proved the necessary mythological expostition
91
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parts of the play : parados

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  • “entrance”-
  • the entrance of the chorus to the orchestra
  • contains many songs and dances
  • back ground info
92
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parts of the play : episode

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  • the actors come out

- second actors are called deutaronist

93
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parts of the play : stasiman

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  • contains more songs and explains the play so far
94
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aristole

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  • heroes need to be good but not so goof

- created the 1st formula for tragedy

95
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how is death refer as ?

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refer to no longger singing the sun or seeing the light

96
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Dark Ages : Mummers

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  • people who went aournf with tehri puppet shows
97
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Trope

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  • were chanted

- they were in the languages that the poor spoke such as saxon

98
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Mansiosn

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  • rooms

- in each room there was a part of each scene is played ending in the altar

99
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Mystery Plays

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  • only allowed to perfom only on the outside steps of the church
  • only allowed ot perdor in corpus Christi
  • stories about saints
  • were all fictional plays with characters such as guilt, death , and lust
100
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Pageant wagon

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  • morality plays

- would do the same scene over and over for people just like in the mansion

101
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Secular Theater

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  • short non religious plays inserted in large courts
  • dance
  • were no longer religious plays
102
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The renaissance :

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  • Constantinople fell
  • libraries were burned
  • The return to what the greeks had given
103
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humanism

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  • intellectual movement
  • idolizing the ancients
  • education no longer with religion
104
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the printing press

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  • monks hand wrote the bibile
  • ## oxford and Cambridge were created
105
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Protestant Reformation

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  • by the 17th century there was 200 religions that branded out
  • religious drama was not banned
106
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Elizabeth theater: Popular theater

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simple comedies and dramas for common ppl

107
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Elizabeth theater : Humanist theater

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based on imitating the ancient greek and roman drama

- mainly in france

108
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Elizabeth theater : Liturgical theater

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  • biblical and church traditions
109
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Italian influence : Commedia delarte

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  • old type comedy
  • based on stock characters
  • used masked
  • lazzi the small plays done by this often lasted only 5 minutes
110
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Artistole and his 3 unities

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  • unity of time
  • unity of place
  • unity of action
111
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Neo classiscs

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wanted to return to the classics

112
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Declamatory acting style

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  • interpretation on how greeks performed
  • rhetoric like a debate
  • delivered lines directly to the audience
  • led to opera
113
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Christopher marlo

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  • he didn’t write as much as shaspear

- attended oxford

114
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Fillipino Brunelleschi

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  • credited with inventing perspective

-

115
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Lope de Vega

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Spanish play wright

116
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Iconoclass

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  • the period were the puritans censorced everything
117
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Richard Burbeige

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  • actor and theater manager

- had a very stritic time to practice

118
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Ben Johnson

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killed someone

119
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Greece was made up of strong independent city states including all but one of the following

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rome

120
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who was not an ancient greek playwright

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aristole

121
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emperor who Christianized the roman empire

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Constantine

122
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what does hubris mean

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an overbearing pride or arrogance towards the gods q

123
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the word tragedy comes from the greek word tragoidia meaning

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goat song

124
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plays that happened before the end of the peloponessian war

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old comedy

125
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a pivoting greek device used to change scenery quickle during a performance

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periaktoi

126
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from 711 to 1492___ dominated much of spain

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islam

127
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These plays celebrated the lives of the saints

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miracle plays

128
Q

everyman is an example of a ___ play

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morality

129
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during the renaissance the Italians invented what type of scene painting

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perspective scene painting

130
Q

which playwrith homosexual and got stabbed to death

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Marlowe

131
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the 800 or so ppl who stood during performances at shakespear globe performance called

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the groundlings

132
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one of the first female actors of the Elizabeth period

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mary frith

133
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scholards who believed shapeskes was a lie

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anti stratfordians

134
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split with the pope to established the Anglican church in England

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henry VIII

135
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in shakespears time acting companies were often accused of being

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rogues and vagabonds

136
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humanist based their style of declamatory acting on

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imafges on greek vases and sculptures

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