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| Theatre requires 3 things: |
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| Greek theatre started with the festival of ________ |
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| First playwright and actor |
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| Tragedies must have a _________, which has an excessive good quality that brings about problems. |
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| Comical plays consisting of a chorus of mythological satyrs |
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| During ancient Greek plays, actors wore: |
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| Masks covering their entire head |
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| t/f: Women as well as men performed in Greek theatre |
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| The only surviving Greek Trilogy |
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| Wrote Oedipus and Antigone |
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| Wrote Medea and The Bacchae |
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| Old Comedy started in the ____ century |
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| wrote The Clouds, The Frogs, and Lysistrata |
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| Type of play characterized by fantasy, lewd humor, and attacks on the government |
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| New Comedy was introduced in the ____ century |
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| Wrote The Grouch, the only surviving comedy |
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| Type of play characterized by situational comedy, domestic situations, and middle class characters--like today's sitcoms |
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| Where the audience sits in an amphitheatre |
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| the aisles on the sides of the seating in an amphitheatre |
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| where actors make entrances and exits; the backdrop |
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| where the chorus dances, sings, and chants |
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3rd c. BC; Hellenistic Period
Pupil of Aristotle
Spread Greek Theatre by establishing libraries that preserved play texts |
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| t/f: Roman plays had the same type of chorus. |
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| false: they were reduced or eliminated |
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| where theatregoers can enter and exit easily (like at the Ferrel Center) |
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| Roman version of the skene |
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| Wrote Tragedy, which was never produced; a closet drama |
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| t/f: Tertullian was against theatre |
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