Ms. Haskell

09-14-16

Theater 1 test 2

Name: ______

  1. At the end of the Roman empire, theater came to end because
  2. People got tired of it
  3. The catholic church forbade it
  4. The gladiators killed all the actors
  5. They ran out of stock characters
  6. The first woman that we know to write plays was
  7. Michelle Obama
  8. Hildegard von Bingen
  9. Hrosvitha
  10. Anne Hatheway
  11. Most of the plays written by Hildegard von Bingen were
  12. Mystery plays
  13. Morality plays
  14. Miracle plays
  15. Masses
  16. The following is a true statement about Hildegards plays
  17. She often produced them herself
  18. She never got to see them, they were found after her death
  19. She wrote them for the pope
  20. She hated all of them
  21. During the middle ages mansions were
  22. Grand houses where plays were performed
  23. The houses were actors lived together
  24. Outlawed
  25. Tiny houses build within a cathedral, like sets
  26. Commedia dell’arte was
  27. Performance done by priests
  28. Physical drama, often crude and simple comedy
  29. Artistic and deep comedy
  30. Outlawed by the puritans
  1. There was no written script for commedia dell’arte
  2. Because it was forbidden
  3. Because it was too difficult
  4. Because it was improve with stock characters
  5. Because no one knew how to write
  6. Elizabethan theater is an incorrect term because
  7. Queen Elizabeth was born until way after this time
  8. The renaissance went on even after her death
  9. She was so unsupportive of theater
  10. It just is
  11. The English Renaissance theater plays came out of
  12. Mystery and morality plays
  13. Ancient Roman plays
  14. Commedia dell’arte
  15. Sponge Bob Square Pants
  16. A new type of play performed in noble households and courts was
  17. An allegro
  18. A scene
  19. Horror
  20. An interlude
  21. The first prominent English tragedy was
  22. Hamlet
  23. Gorboduc
  24. If I stay
  25. Stranger things
  26. The first English play was different because
  27. They were written in blank verse
  28. No one liked it
  29. The rhyming was more sophisticated
  30. It was in Latin
  31. In the 16th century the London theaters were
  32. Spectacular and grand
  33. Banned from the city
  34. Simple and made out of wood and mud
  35. Not existent people performed outside
  1. Theaters raised a black flag to announce
  2. A comedy was going to be performed that day
  3. A tragedy was going to be performed that day
  4. A history was going to be performed that day
  5. Someone had died
  6. During the English Renaissance theaters were found in
  7. Artistic cultural neighborhoods
  8. In the rich and fancy neighborhoods
  9. They weren’t found anywhere
  10. In the bad sleazy neighborhoods

Match the following terms

1. __ Mystery plays • A- Italian Renaissance 2. __Miracle plays • B- told Bible stories 3. __Morality plays • C- Fake pretentious jealous man 4. __Pantalone • D- Stories about human emotions/characteristic 5. __Il Dottore • E- arrogant bombastic braggart 6. __Il Capitano • F- Master/senile wealthy merchant 7. __Inamorati • G- Young lovers 8. __Columbina • H-Shakespeare’s theater 9. __Commedia dell'arte • I- told stories about people 10.__The Globe Playhouse • J- Cunning charming and intelligent female servant

Answer 2 out of the following 3 open questions. You may answer all 3 for extra credit.

Who is the best known playwright of the English renaissance and how can we divide works throughout his career? ______

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How and where did theater get its new start during the medieval times?______

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What was similar in theater history between the emergence of the Roman Catholic Church and the emergence of the Puritan movement centuries later? ______

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