ARTS Flashcards

1
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Theater means?

A

Place of seeing

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2
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Theater began from what?

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Myth, ritual and ceremony

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3
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Is theater more than the buildings where performance takes place? True or False

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True

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4
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What broke the ground for theater?

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The repeated rehearsals, performances and creation of different actions

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5
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Early society perceived connections between actions performed by groups of people or leaders to a certain society and these actions moved from habit, to tradition, to ritual, to ceremony due to?

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Human desire and need for entertainment

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6
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Who are the people involved to produce a theatrical play?

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Playwright, Director, Designer and Technical Crew, and Actors and Actresses

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7
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The person who writes the script of the play

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Playwright

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8
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The person who rehearses the performers

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Director

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9
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The people who produce the props to create the scenes

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Designer and technical crew

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10
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People who perform on stage

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Actors and actresses

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11
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When will a play be a true theater act?

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When an audience witnesses it

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12
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What are the theaters under ancient theater?

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Greek Theater and Roman theater

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13
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Timeframe of Ancient Theater

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700 B.C.E - 410 C.E.

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14
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Parts of a greek theater (Epidauros)

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Orchestra
Theatron
Parodos
Skene

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15
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A large circular or rectangular area at the center part of the theatre, where the play, dance, religious rites, and acting took place

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Orchestra

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16
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Viewing place on the slope of a hill

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Theatron

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17
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Stage

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Skene

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18
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Side entrance

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Parodos

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19
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European theater began in?

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Ancient Greece

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20
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When did Greek Theater begin?

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700 B.C.

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21
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Does Greek theater have festivals honoring their Gods?

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Yes

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22
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The God of wine and fertility

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Dionysus

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23
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Religious festival of Greek theater

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The Cult of Dionysus

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24
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The center of significant cultural, political and military period during this period and where the festivals and competitions were usually performed

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City-state of Athens

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25
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Three well-known Greek tragedy playwrights

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Sophocles
Euripides
Aeschylus

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26
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Three Types of Drama in Ancient Greece

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Tragedy
Comedy
Satyr Play

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27
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In Greece, ______ was the most admired type of play.

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Tragedy

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28
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Dealt with tragic events and has an unhappy ending especially one concerning the downfall of the main character.

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Tragedy

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First actor, intoduced the use of mask and called the “Father of Tragedy”

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Thespis

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30
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2 Greek words that compose Tragedy

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Tragos - goat
Ode - song

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31
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The two Greek words that compose the word tragedy is reffering to what?

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Referring to goats sacrificed to Dionysus before performances, or to goat-skins worn by the performers

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32
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Derived from imitation

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Comedy

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33
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Was there a trace of comedy’s origin?

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No, there were no traces of their origin

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34
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Who wrote most of the comedy plays

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Aristophanes

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35
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Out of these 11 plays ____ survived

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Lysistrata

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36
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A humorous tale about a strong woman who led a female coalition ro end war in greece

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Lysistrata

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37
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Adventure comedy by Euripides

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Cyclops

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38
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Contains comic elements to lighten the overall mood or a serious play with happy ending

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Satyr play

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39
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Ancient Greek form of tragic comedy

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Satyr play

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40
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What is satyr play and when is it performed

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Short, lighthearted tailpiece performed after each trilogy of the tragedies

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41
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Satyr play featured a half-man/half-goat characters known as

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Satyrs

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42
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Describe satyrs

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They were awful, ridiculous, and usually drunk. The Satyr characters lusted after everyone on stage, and they delivered the most humorous lines, often at the expense of others.

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43
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The theater of ancient rome began in the?

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3rd Century B.C.

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44
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What are the varied art forms of Roman Theater?

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Festival performances of street theatre
Acrobatics
Staging of comedies of Plautus
High-verbally elaborate tragedies of Seneca.

45
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One of the first permanent (non-wooden) theatres in Rome

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Triumvir Pompey (Theater of Pompey)

46
Q

What do you call the historical spread of ancient Greek culture

A

Hellenization

47
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Although Rome had a native tradition of performance, the Hellenization (historical spread of ancient Greek culture) of Roman culture in the ___ _______ __ had an intense and energizing effect on Roman theatre and encouraged the development of Latin literature

A

3rd century BC

48
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Did greek theatres had a great influence on the Roman’s theater

A

Yes

49
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By the mid ____ _______ __, 102 out of 176 ludi publici (public games) being dedicated to theatre, besides a considerably lower number of gladiator and chariot racing events.

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14th Century AD

50
Q

Usual themes for roman theater

A

Chariot races
Gladiators
Public executions

51
Q

When was comedy popular during the roman era

A

350-250 BCE

52
Q

Were women allowed to perform on stage during the roman era?

A

Yes

53
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Timeframe of Medieval era

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500 CE - 1400

54
Q

During the Medieval Era, theater performances were not allowed throughout Europe

A

True

55
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What did people do during the Medieval era to keep theater alive?

A

Minstrels, though denounced by the Church, performed in markets, public places and festivals. Travelled from one town to another as puppeteers, jugglers, story tellers, dancers, singers and other performers in other theatrical acts.

56
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Minstrels were viewed as

A

Dangerous and pagan

57
Q

Chruches in Europe started staging their own theater performances during ____ with _____

A

Easter Sundays, Biblical stories and events

58
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Eventually some plays were brought outside the church due to?

A

Their portrayal of the devil and hell

59
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Example of play with potrayal of the devil

A

Mystere de Adam or The Mystery of Adam

60
Q

What theater in which the plays revolved around biblical themes from the Story of the Creation to The Last Judgement

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Medieval Theater 500 CE-1400

61
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Characterized by the return of Classical Greek and Roman arts and culture

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Renaissance Theater 1400-1600

62
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In the middle ages, _____ plays formed a part of the religious festivals in England and other parts of Europe during the Renaissance period

A

Mystery

63
Q

What were formed to recreate Athenian Tragedy

A

Morality plays and University dramas

64
Q

Play in which the protahonist meets personifications of various moral attributes who try to choose a Godly life over the evil

A

Morality plays

65
Q

In which theater were public theaters were developed

A

Renaissance theater

66
Q

2 examples of public theaters

A

Commedia dell’arte and elaborate masques

67
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Italian comedy and a humorous theatrical presentation performed by professional players who traveled in troupes

A

Commedia dell’arte

68
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A dramatic entertainment consisting of pantomime, dancing, dialogue and song and sometimes players wore masks that were usually presented in court

A

Elaborate masques

69
Q

Famous actor or poet that emerged during the Renaissance period

A

William Shakespeare

70
Q

Give 3 characteristics of William Shakespeare

A

He is an english poet, playwright and actor
He is the greatest writer and dramatist inthe whole world
He is England’s national poet and the”Bard of Avon”

71
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How many plays did William Shakespeare make and and give 6 of those

A

38 plays
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Cleopatra
Julius Ceasar
Much Ado about Nothing

72
Q

_____ were common too, that deakt with life in London after the fashion of ______

A

Comedies, Roman New Comedy

73
Q

Some comedy plays during the Renaissance period

A

The Shoemaker’s Holiday by Thomas Dekker
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside by Thomas Middleton

74
Q

In what period was ballet performed in public for the first time

A

Renaissance

75
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It is a formalized form of dance which originated from italian Renaissance courts

A

Ballet

76
Q

Ballet developed from ______ with the help of ____

A

Italy-France, Catherine de’ Medici or the Queen of France

77
Q

A true form of royal entertainment

A

Ballet des Polonais

78
Q

Ballet des Polonais was commissioned by Catherine de Medici to what?

A

Honor the Polish Ambassadors who visited Paris for the enthronement of King Henry in Poland

79
Q

Who was the most prominent supporter of theater during the Renaissance period

A

Queen Elizabeth I

80
Q

What do you callthe performers who performed on the Elizabethan stage

A

Professional players

81
Q

English play that was first performed at the Christmas celebration in 1561 and qas performed before Queen Elizabeth I on January 18 1562 by the Gentleman of the Inner Temple

A

Gorboduc or Ferrex and Porrex

82
Q

This period is marked by the use of technology in current Broadways or commercial plays

A

Baroque Theater 1600-1750

83
Q

What does the crew use for special effects amd scene changes

A

Machines

84
Q

With use of __________ scene changes can be done in a matter of a few seconds

A

Ropes and Pulleys

85
Q

Which play did the machine technology work best

A

Deus ex Machina

86
Q

In which era was theater richly decorated

A

Baroque Theater

87
Q

In which films can we see the theatrica technologies of the baroque era

A

Vatel 2000 and Farinelli 1999 and different stage productions of Orpheus Claudio Monteverdi

88
Q

What era is proscenium

A

Renaissance theater

89
Q

Which era does The Teatro Regio in Turin belong

A

Baroque

90
Q

A movement in which Roman and Greek societies influenced theater arts

A

Neoclassical Theater 1800-1900

91
Q

What theater is characterized by its grandiosity

A

Neoclassical

92
Q

During the neoclassical era ____ and ____ were highly elaborate

A

Costumes and sceneries

93
Q

Main ourpose of the play durong neoclassical era

A

To Entertain and teach lessons

94
Q

Which theater is in which stages were restyled with dramatic arches to highlight the scenes

A

Neoclassical

95
Q

True or false during the neoclassical era multiple entry points on the stage were evident in many plays

A

True

96
Q

What era in which lighting and sound effects intensified

A

Neoclassical

97
Q

What invention allowed parts to move quickly across the stage

A

Pulley system

98
Q

Classical concepts and appropriate socia behavior must be approached

A

Decorum

99
Q

How many plays were established during the neoclassical era and what are these

A

Tragedy and comedy

100
Q

Portrayed the complex and fateful lives of the upper classes and royals

A

Tragedy

101
Q

Focus on the lower ranke of society

A

Comedies

102
Q

Where was the first spotlight used during the neoclassical era and what is it called

A

US, Limelight

103
Q

What law banned drinking in legitimate theaters

A

Theatre Regulation Act of 1843

104
Q

Era in which melodrama and opera were the most popular theatrical forms

A

Romantic Theater 1800-2000

105
Q

Where did the word melodrama originate from

A

Fench word melodrame which is derive from the greek word melos meaning music and dran meaning to perform

106
Q

Three important elements of romantic theatre

A

Acting, costume and scenery

107
Q

Considered as the greates and well known french writers

A

Victor Marie Hugo

108
Q

5 Romantic playwrights

A

Victor Marie Hugo
Charles Nodier
George Sand
Heinrich Von Kleist
Ludwig Uhland

109
Q

Famous Filipino playwrights

A

Francisco Balagtas de la Cruz
Severino R. Reyes