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When was the Greek period?

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5BC

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When was the Roman period?

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2-3AD

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When was the Medieval period?

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500 -1500

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When was the Elizabetheen period?

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1600’s

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When was the Italian Renaissance period?

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1500’s - 1600’s

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Who were the first civilians?

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The egyptians

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What does BC to AD mean?

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BC (before Christ), AD (after Christ)

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Who were the Greeks?

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An agricultural society that practiced telling stories and they had a God for everything.

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What did they do with the first crops?

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They offered the crops to the God Dionysus.

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Who was Dionysus?

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The God of wine, revelry, fertility.

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They sang a song called ‘….’ unto Dionysus.

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Dithyramb

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Who became the power?

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Athens

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What festival did Athens introduce?

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City Dyonisia

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What competition was introduced at City Dyonisia?

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Competition for the best playwright.

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Who is the first actor?

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Thespis

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As the theatre developed, the peformance space developed how?

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They celebrated outside, they put logs in a circular manner leaving the stage at the centre.

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What does the physical theatre consist of?

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Deus ex machina, skene, parados, altar, orchestra, eccyclema

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What is deux ex machina?

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A machine, behind the skene that allowed the God to come down unto the stage.

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What is the skene?

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An entrance for the audience and, separately the actors?

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What is the eccyclema?

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A platform which was pulled to show the result of violence.

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Where was the thymele located and why?

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It was located in the orchestra for the God Dionysus.

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Who were the Greek playwrights of the tragedies?

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Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides

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Who was the first Greek tragedian?

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Aeschylus

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Who was the writer of Oedipus Rex?

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Sophocles

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Who was the most violent writer?
Euripides
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Who were the comedy writers of the Greeks?
Aristophales, Menander
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Who was the first comedic writer?
Aristopholes
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What play did Aristohphales write that it still popular today?
Lysistrata
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Who are the two most famous critics of the Greek civilizations?
Aristotle, Plato
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Explain Theatre of Dionysus (phase one).
the temple was the performance area and had a visible skeen and altar
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Explain Epidarius Theatre (athens phase two)
the skeen became more developed with cushions and art pieces they also decorated the scenic area with shrubs and greenery
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What clothing did the Greeks wear ?
They wore chiton
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What did the Greek actors wear?
cothurnus (elevated boots)
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What did Aeschylus introduce?
Trilogy
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Who wrote the most Greek plays?
Sophocles
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How many plays did Sophocles write?
123 plays
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What do we see in ALL Greek plays?
the Chorus
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What is a tragedy?
this is an imitation of an action that is serious that arouses pity and fear and it causes a freeing of emotions.
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Explain how the Greek plays were organized.
The city magistrate (archon) wold work with a playwright and chose a choragus (the persons who would song and dance in the play)
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What is harmartia
A tragic flaw, a flaw that makes you go against
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What does the chorus do?
Sing, dance and interrupt the play to share expressions and opinions
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What were the Romans known as?
Powerful warriors (the Roman Empire) who were innovators and adapters.
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When did Rome conquer Greece?
146BC
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What was the Romans' vision?
To conquer the world
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Who was the Roman playwright that adapted Greek plays?
Seneca
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What are Seneca's dates?
4BC - AD65
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What did Seneca write?
Closet drama
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What is closet drama?
A type of drama written to be read and not to be performed
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Why couldn't closet drama be performed?
the choices in that period were gorey and dreadful and couldn't be portrayed on stage
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What were the Romans' entertainment?
Bread and circuses
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Who are the two comedic playwrights of the Romans?
Plautus & Terrance
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What piece of Roman architecture can be visible today?
Sports complexes resemble the way in which the theatres were in Roman times.
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Explain the Roman games
Like today's Olympic games, the Roman games were where they would see who was the strongest by competing for the Reet of Honor. The Greeks also had the games but the Romans, once again, adapted it.
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What important part of history did the Romans give us?
The coming of Christ
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Explain why the Romans crucified Christ.
They believed there was no King except King Ceaser. They, therefore, saw Christ as a threat since people began to follow him.
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What is the triburalia in the roman theatre
seating for important personnel to access the exit quickly in case of emergency
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When, where and how was Abraham Lincoln killed?
Fords Theatre in Washington DC, April 14th, 1865, shot in the head and dies the following day (April 15th 1865)
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What is the pompey in the roman theatre
the area in honor of the God/s
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What in the theatre did the Romans adapt and innovate for the Greeks?
They created a single architectural unit and adapted and innovated curtains, various entrances, seating, places of honor and traps
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Explain Tutulian
- A Christian with early theories about Christianity and the church - he felt the Christians shouldn't attend the games and public spectacles in the arena since it was done for the God/s, if you participated you should be abandoned from the religion
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What is the medieval period sometimes referred to as
the Dark Ages
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What was the way society was classified (the feudal system) in the medieval?
Nobility, clergy, peasant
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Why did the clergy and nobility work together?
To ensure that the world was becoming Christian and to keep the peasants knowing of Christianity
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Describe what occurs at the monk in Trinidad in relation to that of the medieval period
People removed themselves into hills and formed sanctuaries to become saints. They isolated themselves to learn how to become shepards
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Vatican City is the home to whom?
The highest priest in the catholic part of Christianity
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Explain who is Vitruvius (Roman Period)
- wrote and documented the architecture of the period with drawings - born in Formia, Italy, and died 15BC - wrote 'Pa Architecture' later used by Leonardo Ca Vinici in the Renaissance Period to create "The Vitruvian Man"
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What was the first documented enactment (medieval)
Easter Tridium
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What were mansions in the medieval period
a raised platform which was a form of staging
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Who would perform Noah & the Ark from the medieval period
Carpenters
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What were the three types of plays from the medieval period
Cycle plays, Mystere plays and morality plays
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What are cycle plays
they told an entire story , the play had a cycling journey
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What are mystere plays
these were plays done by craftsmen which dealt with the life of a saint
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What are morality plays
allegorical drama in which the characters personified moral qualities or abstractions in which moral lessons are taught
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Explain in detail the Passion Play at Oberammergau
- Oberammergau is located in the Bavarian Alps, Germany - once in a decade Passion Play at the Passion Play Theatre - a six-hour spectacle of music and drama - performed by villages every ten years (except during the world wars) since 1634 - it recreates the last months and days of Jesus and the passion of his death on the cross

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