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Question 1

Zeami Motokiyo

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Japanese playwright and actor, specialized in Noh Drama

Question 2

Chikamastu Monzaemon

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Japanese dramatist of jōruri, (puppet theater) which became bunraku

Question 3

Okuni of Izumo

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Japanese entertainer and shrine maiden- believed to have invented kabuki

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Hrosvitha of Gandersheim

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Earliest known female dramatist, a nun who lived and worked in Gandersheim

Question 5

The Second Shepherds’ Play

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Famous medieval mystery play, multiple settings, episodic form, frequent changes of time and place

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Everyman

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known as ‘the’ morality play

Question 7

Isabella Andreini

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An Italian actress and writer, and member of the I Gelosi troupe. Role of Isabella of the commedia dell’arte was named after her

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I Gelosi Troupe

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An Italian acting troupe that performed commedia dell’arte from 1569 to 1604

Question 9

Giacomo Torelli

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An Italian stage designer, devised machinery to change stage sets

Question 10

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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Spanish dramatist, poet, writer and knight of the Order of Santiago. Known as one of the most distinguished Baroque writers of the Spanish Golden Age

Question 11

Lope de Vega

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Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist. Key figure in the Spanish Golden Age of Baroque literature. Modernizer of the comedy genre

Question 12

“The New Art of Writing Plays”

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Book by Lope de Vega, a treatise defending contemporary theatre against the traditionalists

Question 13

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

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Colonial Mexican writer, philosopher, composer and poet of the Baroque period, the first published feminist of the New World

Question 14

“The University Wits”

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Phrase used to name a group of late 16th-century English playwrights who were educated at the universities and who became popular secular writers. (Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, and Thomas Nashe, Thomas Lodge and George Peele)

Question 15

Noh

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traditional Japanese masked drama with dance and song

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Bunraku

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form of traditional Japanese puppet theatre

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Kabuki

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Classical form of Japanese theatre, mixing dramatic performance with traditional dance, known for its heavily stylized performances, its glamorous, highly decorated costume

Question 18

Shite

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Principal role in a noh play

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Waki

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Subordinate actor in noh play

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Yugen

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yūgen suggested beauty only partially perceived—fully felt but barely glimpsed by the viewer

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Hanamichi

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is an extra stage section used in Japanese kabuki theatre

Question 22

Onnagata

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male actors who play female roles in kabuki theatre

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Miracle Play

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Miracle plays told the stories of the Saint’s lives, sometimes true and sometimes fictional

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Mystery/Cycle Play

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told stories from the bible and gave way to large mystery cycles in which many stories were told sequentially on the same day

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Morality Play

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taught lessons of morality through the use of allegorical characters

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Mansion

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stage structures used in medieval theatre to represent specific locations

Question 27

Platea

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acting area of the stage was called the platea

Question 28

William Shakespeare

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English playwright, poet and actor. widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language

Question 29

Christopher Marlowe

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an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era

Question 30

The Globe Theatre

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a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare

Question 31

Richard Burbage

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an English stage actor, widely considered to have been one of the most famous actors of the Globe Theatre and of his time

Question 32

Inigo Jones

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architect, first instances of scenery introduced in theatre

Question 33

Ben Jonson

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an English playwright and poet. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610) and Bartholomew Fair (1614) and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry

Question 34

Moliere (Jean Baptiste Poquelin)

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a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature. His extant works include comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets, and more

Question 35

Jean Racine

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a French dramatist, the foremost practitioner of tragedy in French history

Question 36

Pierre Corneille

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a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine

Question 37

William Davenant

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was an English poet and playwright

Question 38

Thomas Killigrew

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an English dramatist and theatre manager. He was a witty, dissolute figure at the court of King Charles II of England

Question 39

"The Female Wits"

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The three female playwrights attained enough public success that they were criticised in the form of an anonymous satirical play The Female Wits

Question 40

William Congreve

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an English playwright, poet and Whig politician. His works, which form an important component of Restoration literature, were known for their use of satire and the comedy of manners genre.

Question 41

The Way of the World

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a play written by the English playwright William Congreve. It is widely regarded as one of the best Restoration comedies and is still occasionally performed.

Question 42

Nell Gwyn

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an English stage actress and celebrity figure of the Restoration period. Praised by Samuel Pepys for her comic performances as one of the first actresses on the English stage, she became best known for being a long-time mistress of King Charles II of England. (Pretty Woman)

Question 43

"A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage"

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In March 1698, Jeremy Collier published his anti-theatre pamphlet, A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage; in the pamphlet, Collier attacks a number of playwrights: William Wycherley, John Dryden, William Congreve, John Vanbrugh, and Thomas D'Urfey.

Question 44

Liturgical Drama

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refers to medieval forms of dramatic performance that use stories from the Bible or Christian hagiography

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Religious Vernacular Drama

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miracle plays, morality plays, and mystery plays. They were performed in the language of the local people, rather than in the Latin of the church.

Question 46

Episodic Form

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Episodic storytelling is a genre of narrative that is divided into a fixed set of episodes

Question 47

Pageant Master

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The production manager of medieval theatre events

Question 48

Commedia Dell'Arte

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a theatrical form characterized by improvised dialogue and a cast of colorful stock characters

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Commedia Erudita

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Italian comedies written for the enjoyment of scholars in the sixteenth century. They were meant to mimic and emulate the works of Terence and Plautus.

Question 50

Zanni

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a character type of commedia dell'arte best known as an astute servant and a trickster.

Question 51

Lazzi

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stock comedic routines that are associated with Commedia dell'arte

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The Neoclassical Ideals

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purity of theatrical form, five acts, realism, decorum or restraint, and purpose.

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Three Unities

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action, time, and place

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Verisimilitude

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if it seems realistic and the story has details, subjects, and characters that seem similar or true to real life, or mime convincing aspects of life in important or fundamental ways

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Comedia

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a Spanish regular-verse drama or comedy

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Auto Sacramental

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These three-act plays combined comedy and tragedy with themes from history, mythology, popular culture, and the Bible into polymetric verses (meaning there's no set meter) that shifted throughout the performance

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Gracioso

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(in Spanish comedy) a buffoon or clown