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Intermezzi

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between the scenes

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Strum und Drang Drama

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translates to storm and stress; German; lots of spectacle, supernatural, music, and confusion

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cothurni

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high topped boot, one foot in height

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first actor, first ever to speak line alone

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Thespis

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an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850

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romanticism

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Thespis

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first actor, first ever to speak line alone

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scrim

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backdrop on procemian stage ; light in front and you can’t see through, light behind and you can

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company of 10-12 actors and actresses, funny situations, lots of improvision, appearance of comic buisness, plots revolved around love and intrigue, always two lovers and harliquinn

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Commedia Dell’Arte

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caused the aisles and helped people focus

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paraskene

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a device used for displaying and rapidly changing theatre scenes

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periaktoi

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parados

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entrance of chorus OR name of the aisles down which the chorus came

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orange girls

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fruit vendors

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gesamtkunstwerk

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master artwork, associated with Wagner

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period in England with rule by parliament and not king

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interregnum

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Thymale

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alter where animals were sacrificed

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Wagner

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famous, respected German opera writer

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Pagent wagons

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used to tour, compared to u-haul trucks, used as stage

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comedic prop

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phallus

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between the scenes

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Intermezzi

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verisimilitude

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appearance of the truth

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entrance of chorus OR name of the aisles down which the chorus came

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Dionysus

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God of Wine and Fertility

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translates to storm and stress; German; lots of spectacle, supernatural, music, and confusion

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Strum und Drang Drama

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backdrop on procemian stage ; light in front and you can’t see through, light behind and you can

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Commedia Dell'Arte
company of 10-12 actors and actresses, funny situations, lots of improvision, appearance of comic buisness, plots revolved around love and intrigue, always two lovers and harliquinn
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storage house; back wall; dressing room
skene
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had the troughs
wing and drop system
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conceived and sketched out poetics called the Well Made Play; made 6 parts of plot triangle; verisimilitude
Scribe and the Well Made Play
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wheeled platform rolled out through a skênê
ekkyklema
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paraskene
caused the aisles and helped people focus
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used to tour, compared to u-haul trucks, used as stage
Pagent wagons
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Scribe and the Well Made Play
conceived and sketched out poetics called the Well Made Play; made 6 parts of plot triangle; verisimilitude
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ekkyklema
wheeled platform rolled out through a skênê
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master artwork, associated with Wagner
gesamtkunstwerk
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skene
storage house; back wall; dressing room
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Litergical drama
secular
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periaktoi
a device used for displaying and rapidly changing theatre scenes
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phallus
comedic prop
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romanticism
an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850
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secular
Litergical drama
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God of Wine and Fertility
Dionysus
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interregnum
period in England with rule by parliament and not king
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famous, respected German opera writer
Wagner
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fruit vendors
orange girls
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neoclassisism
draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome
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high topped boot, one foot in height
cothurni
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wing and drop system
had the troughs
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alter where animals were sacrificed
Thymale
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appearance of the truth
verisimilitude
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draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome
neoclassisism
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realism
the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, implausible, exotic and supernatural elements
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the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, implausible, exotic and supernatural elements
realism

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