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| The Restoration in England is marked by the return of __________ to the throne. |
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| Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Elizabethan public playhouse? |
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| This form of play in the Italian Renaissance was improvised around a scenario and utilized stock characters. |
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| Which of the following is NOT a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber? |
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| Which full-length black musical comedy challenged the old custom of white actors’ “blacking up,” was written and performed by African Americans (some in white face), and employed the emerging ragtime musical syncopations of early black revues? |
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| Broadway's 1927/1928 season was a high point in the history of the Broadway stage and say 150 shows produced. |
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| __________ composed Alexander's Ragtime Band and Watch Your Step? |
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| The first musical to win a Pulitzer Prize for Drama was: |
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| __________ was the title of the first American musical produced in Charleston, SC in 1735. |
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| Who raised dance to a new level of prominence when he developed a new choreographic style—quick, jerky moves that suddenly segue to slow, sinuous come-ons; bumps and grinds; costumes of white gloves and black bowler hats—in a series of musicals that he directed and choreographed, among them Dancin’ and Chicago? |
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| The only performer to have won Tony awards in four categories—director, choreographer, lead actor, and featured actor—is Tommy Tune. |
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| Which genre, introduced in the golden age of the musical, is characterized by increasingly serious plots and sophisticated musical treatments? |
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| Proved that Man was not the center of the universe. |
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| Argued that Man evolved from other mammals, and were not descendants of Adam & Eve or other gods. |
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| Argued that morality was not divinely inspired but rather derived from a range of complex laws and traditions. |
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| Argued that social behavior was based on greed, class struggle, and primal amorality |
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| The workers have sabotaged the product by only putting two threads in the waistband buttons. |
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| "A New Town is a Blue Town" is __________ lament about moving to a new city. |
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| It offered individual the opportunity to voice personal opinions. |
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| All plays and play productions can be usefully analyzed and evaluated on the way they use the theatrical format to the best advantage and make us rethink the nature of theatrical production. |
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| Scholarly critics generally write |
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| detailed, comprehensive, and rigorously researched articles without the deadline or space limitations of newspapers. |
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| Generally the playwright is more intelligent and better informed than the members of the audience |
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| An audience member’s aesthetic sensibility and response is |
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| a composite of many individual reactions and therefore subjective. |
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| Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides are the three masters of Greek tragedy. |
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| Which is NOT one of the tasks a dramaturg may undertake in a play’s artistic development? |
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| take over for the director during the theatrical run |
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| The Renaissance was characterized by which of the following? |
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| a renewed interest in classical (Greek and Roman) civilization |
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| a temporarily crafted stage piece that was set up in a public square and then moved about from day to day. |
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| The central creed of the Romantic theatre was |
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| In Mandarin, Chinese Opera is called xiqu, which means |
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| The ancient Greek god of fertility, wine, agriculture, and sexuality was |
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| Performers in Chinese opera are adept at singing, speech, acting, and acrobatics. |
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| Criticism occurs on both the amateur and professional levels. |
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| Scholarly critics help the public decide what productions to see. |
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| The work of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson in England and Machiavelli and commedia dell’arte in Italy are all examples of Renaissance theatre. |
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| A member of the audience may see a play from five different critical and dramaturgical perspectives. What are five perspectives? |
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| social, personal, artistic, theatrical, and entertainment value |
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| production reviews , scholarly works, and online blogs and journals. |
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| The term “Middle Ages” describes the period of history |
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| between the fall of Rome and the coming of the Renaissance. |
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| The Royal era was characterized by the aristocracy’s support of public theatres, such as the Globe Theatre. |
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| Which type of critic expresses thoughts with precision, clarity, and grace, through the careful building up of ideas, a presentation of evidence, logical argument, the use of helpful analogy and example, and a clear style of expression? |
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| A play’s final repository is |
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| the minds and memories of its audiences. |
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| Scholarly dramatic criticism is itself a literary art, of which works by Aristotle, Goethe, Shaw, and Nietzsche have outlasted their presumed subjects and helped shape our vision of life. |
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| Ancient Egypt's Abydos Passion Play and other texts of that time employed plot elements that indicate they derived from even more ancient |
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| ritualized reenactments of the coming of spring and celebration of rebirth. |
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| Dramaturgy is essentially a subset of directorial responsibilities. |
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| Plays that deal with theatrical matter not simply as a vehicle but as a theme are called |
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| metadrama or metatheatre. |
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| The liturgical trope Quem Quaeritis |
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| celebrates the visit of the three Marys to the tomb of the crucified Christ. |
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| The presence of a critical focus in the audience has the effect of keeping the theatre |
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| limited to a brief, immediate reaction written within a few days of seeing the performance. |
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| What word fits the definition of “that which holds the attention?” |
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| Which of the following is true of theatre in Asia? |
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| A diverse tradition exists in Asian theatre. |
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| The primary foundations of theatre are ritual and dancing. |
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| Which drama, whose name means “storyplay,” originated in rural villages in the province of Kerala in the seventeenth century and is based on any of thousands of stories from two great Indian epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata? |
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| an ancient, drunken, dance-chant fertility ritual that celebrated the birth of the wine god. |
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| Which of the following can NOT be said of Shakespeare? |
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| He wrote only for the court of Elizabeth I. |
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| a key to the accounts ledger. |
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| Which artist (b. 1930), credited with changing the face of the American musical, developed a new style featuring disturbing plots, an ironic tone, and sophisticated, intricately rhymed lyrics? |
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| Which of the following is NOT a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber? |
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| Who raised dance to a new level of prominence when he developed a new choreographic style—quick, jerky moves that suddenly segue to slow, sinuous come-ons; bumps and grinds; costumes of white gloves and black bowler hats—in a series of musicals that he directed and choreographed, among them Dancin’ and Chicago? |
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| The first musical to win a Pulitzer Prize for Drama was: |
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| Which genre, introduced in the golden age of the musical, is characterized by increasingly serious plots and sophisticated musical treatments? |
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| Which full-length black musical comedy challenged the old custom of white actors’ “blacking up,” was written and performed by African Americans (some in white face), and employed the emerging ragtime musical syncopations of early black revues? |
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| Bob Cole’s A Trip to Coontown (1898) |
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| Broadway's 1927/1928 season was a high point in the history of the Broadway stage and say 150 shows produced. |
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| first female professional playwright. |
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| Which of the following is true of theatre in Asia? |
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| A diverse tradition exists in Asian theatre. |
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| Rome’s greatest contribution to the theatre was |
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| According to the lecture, traditional drama was born when __________ was introduced to shamanistic ritual. |
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| The most comprehensive and detailed theatrical treatise of the ancient world, detailing analyses of dramatic texts, the theatre building, acting, staging, music, and even theatre-company organization, is |
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| the Sanskrit Natyasastra, or “treatise on theatre” |
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| This form of play in the Italian Renaissance was improvised around a scenario and utilized stock characters. |
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| The greatest playwright of the Royal Era in France was: |
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| This Middle Age scenic device is similar to a modern day parade float. |
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| Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Elizabethan public playhouse? |
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| The Restoration in England is marked by the return of __________ to the throne. |
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| The rise of this religion in the 700's AD virtually eliminated theatre in the areas it converted. |
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| The play Everyman is a type of __________ . |
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| In Mandarin, Chinese Opera is called xiqu, which means |
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| Through images and metaphors, symbolism explores the inner realities which cannot be directly or literally perceived. |
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| Argued that social behavior was based on greed, class struggle, and primal amorality. |
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| Order components of a play by order of importance defined by Aristotle |
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