Final Flashcards
(136 cards)
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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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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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Which country invaded india and introduced western style theatre
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England
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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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many scholars agree that theatre grew out of
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ritual and story telling
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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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because in many ancient Islamic countries acting was outlawed _____ became popular
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shadow palys
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how many years must a bunraku master train
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30
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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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theatre that comes form African, india, china, japan, arab, world is often called
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non western
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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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ritual theatre involves
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music, religion, dance
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the first script
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ikhernofret stela
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saskrit drama is a part of the traditional theatre of ____
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india
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the Abydos passion play is an example of
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ritual theatre
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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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the Abydos passion play was about the
the suffering and the triuphms of Osiris
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in greek theatres the circular playing or "dancing place" was called
orchestra
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the greek word for the building that served as a backdrop and dressing room
skene
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this was the religious festival held each year during the spring time
city dionysus
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the word thespian means
actor
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the seating or seeing place in an ancient greek theatre was called the
theatron
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which greek general spread greek theatre
alexander the great
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an ending during which an implausible twist seat all the problems right
deus ex machine
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theatre in Athens grew out of a ritual called
dithyramb
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ancient greek trilogies were typically followed by a short comic relief play called a
satyr play
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who performed in mystery plays
trade guilds
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what type of play is the second sheperds play
mystery
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why did the church outlaw theatre
,all of teh above pestilence .
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these people idolized the romans and the greeks
humanists
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began with martin luther nailing compalints to the front door or the church at wittern berg
the reformation
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in 398 ce the church decreed ____ for all who attended the theater
excommunication
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a publicly displayed object serving as a reminder of mortality or death such as a skull
memento mori
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the years___ are most associated with the high middle ages or early renaissance
1200-1450
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during the middle ages plays about noahs ark or the magi were know as___ plays
mystery
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everyman is an example of a __ pkay
morality
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like the early Christians, muslims during the middle ages____ most theatrical activity
didn't supports
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who performed tropes?
clergy
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roaming troupes of story tellers acrobat puppetters and jugglers
mummers
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a nun who used the plays of Terence as a model to write plays about the lives of saintly womane
hrosvita
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which of the following did not use allegory
intervals
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which of the following is the most secular
interval plays
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by 1515 all the know works of ancient ___ authors had been translated and printed
greek and roman
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which of the following describes humanism
- a vibrant intellectual movement
- education with emphasis on the liberal arts
- idolizing
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where were morality plays performed
on pageant wagons in the village square
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Antropologist
○ They study artifacts
○ People existed as hunter gatherers
○ They were often nomatic
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Lascaux
Cave paintings
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Shaman
○ The first actor, maybe a source of wisdom as well as a history keeper
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What human impulses does theatre come from
○ Storytelling
| Ritual
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Rituals are related to 3 basic needs
Pleasure, power and duty
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Ritual theatre
○ 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
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Ikehnofer Stelle
§ Stone that had an entire script written with emojis
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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
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Africa : Colonial theater
§ 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
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Africa: Post colonial
§ People began to return to theatre
§ Around the 1960s
§ Mixtured of african and europEAN STYLE
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African : Masks
§ More eastern
§ Symbolic meanings
§ The audience would be able to identify the character
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Indian : the natvasatra
§ Ancient theatre on dramatic theory and practice
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Indian : Sanskrit drama
§ The oldest of indian languages and tell stories based on indian myths
§ Includes masks
Based on hinduism
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indian : kathakali
dance drama
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Chinese : Peking
§ The oldest of indian languages and tell stories based on indian myths
§ Includes masks
Based on hinduism
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Japanese : Bunroku
§ 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
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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
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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
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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
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Islamic : shadow theater
§ Images are forbidden in the koran
§ They used shadows t show these images
§ They also created puppets
§ Western influences also began to occur
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Islamic: Ta'ziyeh
§ Religions drama in iran performed outdoors using animals
| § About the grandson of the prophet
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Islamic : talibans rulu
Was a women in theatre
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romans: pax romana
the peace of rome
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romans : circus maximus
On a holiday to celebrate something
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romans : mime
theater that does not have words
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romans : platus
slapstick and comic
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romans: living adronicus
first playwright thespis
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Terence
from African and adopted popular plays
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Greek : Polis
city stable was ex trading w Spartan
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d thyramn
song sung to the god dienysos
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dyanysus
god of fertility and theater celebreated in the spring time
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thespis
1st actor on record
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choregas
leader of the chorus
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theatron
the seeking place
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skene
temporary wooden structure
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orchestra
dancing place
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parts of the play : prologue
- a short speech or scene by one or more actors that sets the location and time and proved the necessary mythological expostition
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parts of the play : parados
- "entrance"-
- the entrance of the chorus to the orchestra
- contains many songs and dances
- back ground info
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parts of the play : episode
- the actors come out
| - second actors are called deutaronist
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parts of the play : stasiman
- contains more songs and explains the play so far
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aristole
- heroes need to be good but not so goof
| - created the 1st formula for tragedy
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how is death refer as ?
refer to no longger singing the sun or seeing the light
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Dark Ages : Mummers
- people who went aournf with tehri puppet shows
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Trope
- were chanted
| - they were in the languages that the poor spoke such as saxon
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Mansiosn
- rooms
| - in each room there was a part of each scene is played ending in the altar
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Mystery Plays
- 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
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Pageant wagon
- morality plays
| - would do the same scene over and over for people just like in the mansion
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Secular Theater
- short non religious plays inserted in large courts
- dance
- were no longer religious plays
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The renaissance :
- Constantinople fell
- libraries were burned
- The return to what the greeks had given
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humanism
- intellectual movement
- idolizing the ancients
- education no longer with religion
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the printing press
- monks hand wrote the bibile
- oxford and Cambridge were created
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Protestant Reformation
- by the 17th century there was 200 religions that branded out
- religious drama was not banned
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Elizabeth theater: Popular theater
simple comedies and dramas for common ppl
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Elizabeth theater : Humanist theater
based on imitating the ancient greek and roman drama
| - mainly in france
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Elizabeth theater : Liturgical theater
- biblical and church traditions
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Italian influence : Commedia delarte
- old type comedy
- based on stock characters
- used masked
- lazzi the small plays done by this often lasted only 5 minutes
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Artistole and his 3 unities
- unity of time
- unity of place
- unity of action
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Neo classiscs
wanted to return to the classics
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Declamatory acting style
- interpretation on how greeks performed
- rhetoric like a debate
- delivered lines directly to the audience
- led to opera
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Christopher marlo
- he didn't write as much as shaspear
| - attended oxford
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Fillipino Brunelleschi
- credited with inventing perspective
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Lope de Vega
Spanish play wright
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Iconoclass
- the period were the puritans censorced everything
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Richard Burbeige
- actor and theater manager
| - had a very stritic time to practice
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Ben Johnson
killed someone
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Greece was made up of strong independent city states including all but one of the following
rome
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who was not an ancient greek playwright
aristole
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emperor who Christianized the roman empire
Constantine
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what does hubris mean
an overbearing pride or arrogance towards the gods q
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the word tragedy comes from the greek word tragoidia meaning
goat song
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plays that happened before the end of the peloponessian war
old comedy
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a pivoting greek device used to change scenery quickle during a performance
periaktoi
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from 711 to 1492___ dominated much of spain
islam
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These plays celebrated the lives of the saints
miracle plays
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everyman is an example of a ___ play
morality
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during the renaissance the Italians invented what type of scene painting
perspective scene painting
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which playwrith homosexual and got stabbed to death
Marlowe
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the 800 or so ppl who stood during performances at shakespear globe performance called
the groundlings
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one of the first female actors of the Elizabeth period
mary frith
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scholards who believed shapeskes was a lie
anti stratfordians
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split with the pope to established the Anglican church in England
henry VIII
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in shakespears time acting companies were often accused of being
rogues and vagabonds
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humanist based their style of declamatory acting on
imafges on greek vases and sculptures
