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| Shakespeare was England's first poet laureate. |
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| Shakespeare's character's were usually static and remained unchanged throughout the plot. |
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| As a child Shakespeare could have seen cycle plays and other forms of late medieval entertainment. |
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| While adult acting companies consisted entirely of males, child acting companies included girls as well as boys. |
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| An Elizabethan/Jacobean playwright was responsible to arrange for the printing of his play before copies of the play could be distributed to the actors. |
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| Many leading dramatists, including Jonson, Milton, Shirley, Marston, and others, wrote masques for the Jacobean and Caroline courts. |
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| Following the example of the public theatre, masques were performed at court with entirely male casts. |
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| Most famously associated with the Elizabethan period, Shakespeare and his theatre troupe was actually more financially successful and prominently associated with the court under James. |
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| Masques, if successful at court, would be repeated in successive performances in the public theatres. |
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| Private theatre audiences were wealthier and paid more to attend the theatre than those of public thatres. |
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| The Golden Age of Spanish drama lasts roughly from 1580 to 1680, overlapping the Elizabethan/Jacobean resurgence of theatre. |
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| The most prolific dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age is Pedro Calderon de la Barca. |
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| One of the distinctions of the Spanish Golden Age theatre is the strong and undisguised visibility and influence of the Catholic Church. |
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| Another of the distinctions of Spanish Golden Age drama is the extraordinary number of plays most of its major playwrights produced. |
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| Hostility between the church, the University, the crown, and the aristocracy produced very distinct national theatres for these distinct audiences, with little crossover of talent among them. |
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| Autos sacramentales were performed in the public square of the capital, but after Corpus Christi could be repeated in the professional theatres of the town and/or on tour |
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| Lope de Vega tended to write his comedias in three acts and with happy or reconciliatory endings. |
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| Calderon's generation of playwrights centered its work on the public theatres, preferring to avoid the strictures of writing for court and church settings. |
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| Rojas Zorilla's plays founded the musical-dramatic genre later called Zarzuelas. |
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| European-based theatre in New Spain (Mexico) was initially established to honor visiting royalty. |
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| The plays of Rojas Zorilla, and Augustin Moreto Y Cabana were not so influential in Spain as they were imitated in France and England. |
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| Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Juan del Valle y Caviedas, Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo were all Spanish colonial playwrights. |
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| The most popular and influential dramatist of the early Italian Renaissance was Niccolo Machiavelli. |
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| Commedia erudite means "learned comedy" or comedy drawn from classical models. |
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| Opera was derived from Renaissance attempts to reproduce the staging of the comedies of Plautus and Terence. |
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| One of the most important theatrical inventions of the Italian Renaissance was the proscenium arch. |
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| Commedia dell'arte troupes were exclusively male. |
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| Pastoral was a kind of tragedy set among gods and goddesses. |
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| Serlio designed the Teatro Farnese in Parma. |
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| Serlio designed the basic Renaissance models of the tragic scene, comic scene, and pastoral scene. |
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| Castalvetro was the first to state that the Three Unities are an inarguable requirement for quality drama. |
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| Faminio Scala and Isabella Andreini were famous commedia dell'arte actors. |
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| Due to the connection between the Church and the university in France, there was no University tradition of performance of classical drama as part of the French Renaissance. |
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| In 1548, religious plays were banned from public performance. |
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| France suffered a war of succession that amounted to a civil war between 1589-1594; among other things, it impeded theatrical production in Paris. |
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| Stung by the Cid quarrel, Pierre Corneille withdrew from playwriting permanently. |
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| The product of a strict, religious upbringing, Jean Racine eventually renounced the theatre. |
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| Moliere spent thirteen years touring the countryside before performing again in Paris. |
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| To help him through various controversies, Moliere had the patronage and support of Cardinal Richelieu. |
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| Unlike Corneille and Racine and his other famous playwriting contemporaries, Moliere had an acting career and used a stage name. |
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| The principal theatres in Paris during Moliere's lifetime were the Hotel de Bourgogne and the Comedie Francaise. |
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The University Wits did NOT include:
Thomas Kyd
Christopher Marlowe
Robert Greene
John Lyle
William Shakespeare |
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Public Theatres did NOT include:
The Swan
The Globe
The Tower
The Theatre
The Rose |
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Private Theatres included:
The Fortune
The Blackfriars
The Globe |
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Plays by Christopher Marlowe do NOT include:
Richard III
Edward II
Dr. Faustus
The Jew of Malta
Tamburlaine |
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Plays by Ben Jonson do NOT include:
Coriolanus
Bartholomew Fair
Epicene or the Silent Woman
Volpone
Every Man in his Humour |
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Shakespeare's tragedies do NOT include:
Othello
Macbeth
Antony and Cleopatra
The Tempest |
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According to the book, as much as ___ Shakespeare plays can be performed in a bare stage:
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80%
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20% |
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Plays Shakespeare wrote under Elizabeth I include:
Othello
King Lear
As You Like It
Macbeth
Measure for Measure |
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Plays Shakespeare Wrote under James include:
The Tempest
Taming of the Shrew
Henry IV, Part I
Comedy of Errors
Hamlet |
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Common traits of comedias include all of these EXCEPT:
The cynical clown or gracioso
Roles for men and boys to play women characters
Three-act structure
Music and dance
Reconciliatory endings |
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| Roles for men and boys to play women characters |
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The following are the names of Golden Age Spanish theatres, EXCEPT:
Corral del Principe
Corral del Confradias
The courtyard teatre of the Bull
Corral de la Cruz |
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Customary roles in most comedias included all of these EXCEPT:
The criada or lady's servant
The gracioso or clown
The dama or lady
The caballero or gentleman
The pantolonos or comic old man |
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| The pantolonos or comic old man |
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The Spanish corrales or public theatres of Madrid most resembled those of:
Italian court theatres
The Roman theatre designs of Vitruvius
Medieval traveling theatre
Outdoor theatres as at Versailles
English public playhouses |
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An account of the performances of Lope de Rueda was written from personal memory by:
Francisco de Rojas Zorilla
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Miguel Cervantes
Pedro Calderon de la Barca |
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Plays by Lope de Vega include all of these EXCEPT:
The Knight from Olmeda
Punishment Without Revenge
Fuenteovejuna
The Trickster of Seville |
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The most famous outdoor court entertainment of the court of Philip IV, written by Calderon and staged by Cosme Lotti, was:
The Phantom Lady
The Loa to the Divine Narcissus
The Eclogue of Placida and Victoriano
The Greatest Enchantment is Love |
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The Golden Age playwright who developed the closest relationship to the Spanish Court:
Augustin Moreto y Cabana
Jose Caudi
Francisco de Rojas Zorilla
Pedro Calderon de la Barca |
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| Pedro Calderon de la Barca |
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Ancient authors who served as important models in the drama of the Italian Renaissance included all of these EXCEPT:
Plautus
Menander
Seneca
Terence |
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Literary authorities who influenced much of Italian Renaissance playwriting and criticism included:
Aristotle, Horace
Dante, Thomas Aquinas
Cicero, Plato
Plato, Dante
Aristotle, Plato |
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The principal architects of neoclassical criticism (and the famous "Three Unities") included all of the following EXCEPT:
Ludovico Castelvetro
Julius Caesar Scaliger
Antonio Minturno
Nicolo Machiavelli |
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Characters in the Commedia dell'Arte includes all of these EXCEPT:
Pantalone
Padrino
Arlecchino
Capitano
Dottore |
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Characters in the Commedia dell'Arte includes all of these EXCEPT:
Zanni
The Lovers
Harpo
Brighella |
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The oldest surviving theatre with a proscenium arch is:
Teatro Olimpico
Teatro Uffizi
Teatro Faranese
Teatro Giovanni e Paolo |
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The composer of what is now seen as the first great opera, Orfeo (1607), is:
Guseppe Verdi
Claudio Monteveri
Jacopo Peri
Jean-Baptiste Lulli
Ottavio Rinuccini |
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In the commedia dell' arte, lazzi were:
Comic servant characters who got laughs
Verbal jokes, including comic dialect bits, etc.
Sight gags, bits of silent, physical clowning
Verbal and sight gags |
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| Sight gags, bits of silent, physical clowning |
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The author of the first produced Renaissance Italian comedy was:
Niccolo Machiavelli
Pietro Aretino
Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena
Lodovico Ariosto |
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Moliere wrote all of the following EXCEPT:
The Miser
Tartuffe
The School for Wives
Le garage du LJ
Les Precieuses Ridicules |
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The first French tragedy written in accord with the Three Unities was:
Phedre by Racine
Le Cid by Corneille
Le Princess d'Elide by Moliere
Sophonisba by Jean de Mairet |
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Paris saw public quarrels about the writing quality and/or content of the following plays:
School for Wives, Phedre, and Rodogune
Le Cid, Phedre, and Tartuffe
Le Cid, Tartuffe, and The Misanthrope
Le Cid, Tartuffe, and School for Wives |
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| Le Cid, Tartuffe, and School for Wives |
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The French Academy was principally founded by:
King Louis XIII
Cardinal Mazarin
Le Fronde
Cardinal Richelieu |
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After the opening of his satire of religious hypocrisy, Moliere was required to shut the play down and :
Rewrite the play twice to tone down offensive content
Do a single rewrite of the play to tone down offensive content
Recast the title role because the actor had unexpectedly taken ill and died
Rehearse and play the title role himself because the principal actor abruptly left the company |
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| Rewrite the play twice to tone down offensive content |
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Moliere wrote prominently in all of these genres EXCEPT:
Comedy-ballet
Comedy of manners
Farce
Tragedy |
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