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ENGL 233 Exam 1
First Exam for Stages of Drama
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Literature
Undergraduate 1
02/23/2011

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Hut (Elizabethan/Shakespear Theater)
Definition
Space that contained suspension gear, lightening effects and thunder
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"Heavens"(Elizabethan/Shakespear Theater)
Definition
Place for the sky on the stage
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Music Room(Elizabethan/Shakespear Theater)
Definition
Where the orchestra is located
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"Lord's Room"(Elizabethan/Shakespear Theater)
Definition
"Best seat in the house"
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Galleries(Elizabethan/Shakespear Theater)
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Expensive seats
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"Tiring-House"(Elizabethan/Shakespear Theater)
Definition
Doors for actor entrances
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Discovery Space(Elizabethan/Shakespear Theater)
Definition
Where main events in the play take place
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Pillars(Elizabethan/Shakespear Theater)
Definition
Supported the stage
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Trap Door(Elizabethan/Shakespear Theater)
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Ghost, purgatory, "hell"
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Pit(Elizabethan/Shakespear Theater)
Definition
Where normal people sat
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3 Major tragedy Greek theatre writers
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Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
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Theatron (Greek)
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Theater, seating area
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Orchestra (Greek)
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Where the chorus was put, dancing
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Parados (Greek)
Definition
Where orchestra enters
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Skene (Greek)
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Backdrop "tent"
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Eccyclema (Greek)
Definition
Cart where murder victims were revealed
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Eugene Scribe
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Father of the "well made play"
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Denouement
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Resolution
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(anti) Strophe (Greek)
Definition
Movement of the chorus on the stage
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Producer (Patron) "Choregos" (Greek)
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Funded the play
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Mechane (Greek)
Definition
Crane that lifts characters
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Susan Glaspell
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Trifles
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Sophocles
Definition
"Oedipus Rex"
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Shakespeare
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"Othello"
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Henrik Ibsen
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A Doll's House
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Oscar Wilde
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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