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| What are the Characteristics of the New Comedy of the Hellenistic Period? |
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Definition
Generalized concern for love, financial worries, and familial or societal relationships.
Domestic, middle-class comedy.
Ignores political issues.
Mistaken identity. |
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| What kind of entertainments practiced the Greek mimes? |
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Definition
Short playlets
mimetic dance
imitation of animals and birds
Singing
acrobatics
juggling |
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| Stock characters in the fabula Atellana? |
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Definition
Bucco, a vivacious, boisterous braggart
Pappus, a comic old man
Maccus, a gluttonous fool
Dossenus, a hunchback of frightening appearance |
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| What instauratio means in the context of the Ludis? |
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Definition
| A repetition of a festival because of irregularities in the the rituals. |
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| Name the Roman writers that had great influence in the renaissance in comedy and tragedy? |
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Definition
| Terrence, Plataus, Seneca |
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| Who was the inspiration for the plays of Plautus and Terence? |
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Definition
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| Name one play by Plautus and one by Terence. |
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Definition
Plautus: The Comedy of Asses
Terence: Andria |
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| What is the role of music in Plautus and Terence? |
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Definition
Plautus: 2/3 accompanied by music
Terrance ½ accompanied by music. |
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| What are the 7 characteristics of Seneca’s tragedies? |
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Definition
1. Divided into five episodes by choral interludes
2. Models for technical devices like soliloquies
3. Extensive use of elaborate speeches
4. Uses pithy, proverbial generalizations about the human condition to reinforce moral points.
5. A preoccupation with magic, death, and the interpenetration of the human and superhuman worlds.
6. Characters are dominated by a single obsessive passion that leads them to their doom.
7. Uses sensational deeds to illustrate the evils of unrestrained emotion. |
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| Major differences between the Greek and the Roman theatres? |
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Definition
Romans brought the Scena closer to the audience dividing the circle in half.
The vomitoriums made flow easier in and out easier in Roman theatre.
Greek theatres were built into the hillside. Roman theatres were buildings. |
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| Did Byzantines had a religious drama? |
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Definition
| Yes Byzantine theatre has three main aspects: popular, religious, and scholar. |
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| Describe the importance of the Drama in the early Islamic Empire. |
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Definition
| Muslim drama was limited to minor forms and gave rise to shadow puppets and abstract theatre. |
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| Describe the interaction between sports and theatrical entertainment in the Byzantine theatre. |
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Definition
| They incorporated theatrical events between sporting events, and using dramatic elements as a means of explaining sporting events. |
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| Describe the importance of woman in the development of Liturgical Drama and name its protagonists. |
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Definition
| First female playwright: Hrosvitha. Also first time women were allowed to act. |
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| Name and author for code of rules for Easter celebrations written between 965 and 975 in England? |
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Definition
| Regularis Concordia by Ethelwold Bishop of Winchester |
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Term
| What is the role of the church in the theatre of the middle ages? |
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Definition
| They banned the theatre and then started the Mystery Plays, and then they took Greek drama and Christianized it. |
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Term
| What are the components of the staging of the Liturgical drama? |
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Definition
1. Small scenic structures—Mansions; props, seat, places.
2. Platea-adjacent space, neutral, mansions grouped around space. |
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Vernacular Drama
How did they develop? |
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Definition
| Because the church needed to educate the priest and congregation. |
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Vernacular Drama
Where were they performed? |
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Definition
| First in Churches then on pageant wagons or stationary platforms. |
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Vernacular Drama
Who was responsible for production elements? |
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Definition
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Vernacular Drama
What were the modes of staging? |
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Definition
| Heaven: above, Earth: Middle, Hell: Below. |
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| What are the major collections (cycles)? |
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Definition
| Acts of the Apostles, Play of St. Nicholas, Mystery of Passion, and Miracle of Thephile. |
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Term
| What was the involvement of the guilds? |
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Definition
| Guilds which were much like unions were responsible for providing props and sets, and regulate working conditions, wages, and quality of the productions. |
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Definition
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Definition
| Annoymous and adapted by the bible |
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| What are the director’s duties? |
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Definition
| Wrangle actors and describe the scenic elements. |
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| What differentiates secular from liturgical drama? |
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Definition
| No biblical references and dealing with magic and fairies. |
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Term
| What are the differences between morality and mystery and plays? |
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Definition
Mystery plays are biblical stories
Morality plays are plays with dealing with Christian morals. |
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Term
| What is the plot of everyman? |
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Definition
Death comes for Everyman
Everyman wants to take worldly possesions with him
Everyman asks Beauty, Strength, Discretion, Five Wits to come with him but they won't
The only one who will come with him is Good Deeds |
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| What were the Chambers or Rhetoric, how they worked? |
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Definition
| Performed in low countries answering questions with allegorical dramas. |
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