Final Flashcards
The school of the arts created by Ming Huang in 714 CE
Pear garden
In the 19th century invading countries introduced what type of theatre
western style/ colonial
African theatre using acting , music, story telling, poetry , dance costumes and masks
pre colonial
According to joseph Campbell , ritual are related to 3 basic neeeds : pleasure, ___ , and duty
power
Rituals continue to play an important role in our lives today
true
Which of the following does not involve mask
peking opera
used orchestra made up of gongs, cymbals, lutes, rattles, drums, castaners, and 2 string
peking opeara
African theatre is usually divided into 3 periods. which of these periods is the oldest
precolonial
which book is often considered to be the most valuable historiacal record of indian theatre
natysastra
Which country invaded india and introduced western style theatre
England
which one of the following is not an example of traditional Japanese theatre
maki
many scholars agree that theatre grew out of
ritual and story telling
what is bunraku
traditional Japanese pupett theatre
in this Japanese theatre the audience activily participates they call out an actors name
kabuki
because in many ancient Islamic countries acting was outlawed _____ became popular
shadow palys
how many years must a bunraku master train
30
Modern African theatre that combines traditional African ritual and western style drama
total theatre / post colonial theatre
theatre that comes form African, india, china, japan, arab, world is often called
non western
early forms of theatre were based on established stock characters and plots called archetypes
true
ritual theatre involves
music, religion, dance
the first script
ikhernofret stela
saskrit drama is a part of the traditional theatre of ____
india
the Abydos passion play is an example of
ritual theatre
which type of indian theatre is named for the ancient indian language
Sanskrit
the Abydos passion play was about the
the suffering and the triuphms of Osiris
in greek theatres the circular playing or “dancing place” was called
orchestra
the greek word for the building that served as a backdrop and dressing room
skene
this was the religious festival held each year during the spring time
city dionysus
the word thespian means
actor
the seating or seeing place in an ancient greek theatre was called the
theatron
which greek general spread greek theatre
alexander the great
an ending during which an implausible twist seat all the problems right
deus ex machine
theatre in Athens grew out of a ritual called
dithyramb
ancient greek trilogies were typically followed by a short comic relief play called a
satyr play
who performed in mystery plays
trade guilds
what type of play is the second sheperds play
mystery
why did the church outlaw theatre
,all of teh above pestilence .
these people idolized the romans and the greeks
humanists
began with martin luther nailing compalints to the front door or the church at wittern berg
the reformation
in 398 ce the church decreed ____ for all who attended the theater
excommunication
a publicly displayed object serving as a reminder of mortality or death such as a skull
memento mori
the years___ are most associated with the high middle ages or early renaissance
1200-1450
during the middle ages plays about noahs ark or the magi were know as___ plays
mystery
everyman is an example of a __ pkay
morality
like the early Christians, muslims during the middle ages____ most theatrical activity
didn’t supports
who performed tropes?
clergy
roaming troupes of story tellers acrobat puppetters and jugglers
mummers
a nun who used the plays of Terence as a model to write plays about the lives of saintly womane
hrosvita
which of the following did not use allegory
intervals
which of the following is the most secular
interval plays
by 1515 all the know works of ancient ___ authors had been translated and printed
greek and roman
which of the following describes humanism
- a vibrant intellectual movement
- education with emphasis on the liberal arts
- idolizing
where were morality plays performed
on pageant wagons in the village square
Antropologist
○ They study artifacts
○ People existed as hunter gatherers
○ They were often nomatic
Lascaux
Cave paintings
Shaman
○ The first actor, maybe a source of wisdom as well as a history keeper
What human impulses does theatre come from
○ Storytelling
Ritual
Rituals are related to 3 basic needs
Pleasure, power and duty
Ritual theatre
○ Included song , dance, and characterization
○ Rooted by religion
○ All ritual is not theatre
○ has to have a conflict and a story, as well as characterization
Ikehnofer Stelle
§ Stone that had an entire script written with emojis
Africa : Pre colonial theater
§ Mainly ritual and storytelling § Made special use of masks § audience participation was requires § Based on religion and occurred on found spaces § Audince on all 4 sides
Africa : Colonial theater
§ Many mono religion s began to appear
§ These religions had no theater because anyone who acted as a god would be doing wrong
§ Slavery began to happen in africa
§ The people who came to colonizi africa did not want them to celebrate their culture
Africa: Post colonial
§ People began to return to theatre
§ Around the 1960s
§ Mixtured of african and europEAN STYLE
African : Masks
§ More eastern
§ Symbolic meanings
§ The audience would be able to identify the character
Indian : the natvasatra
§ Ancient theatre on dramatic theory and practice
Indian : Sanskrit drama
§ The oldest of indian languages and tell stories based on indian myths
§ Includes masks
Based on hinduism
indian : kathakali
dance drama
Chinese : Peking
§ The oldest of indian languages and tell stories based on indian myths
§ Includes masks
Based on hinduism
Japanese : Bunroku
§ Intricate puppet theatre in which puppet requires 3 operators
§ 2 people are covered completely while the masters face is shown
§ Mainly a family business
§ You do 10 years of practice for each section before you become a master
Japanese: Noh theater
§ Each play had a 3 part structure § JO, HA, Kyu § During kyu, the main character performs a dance § Deepley connected to religion § Passed down by family
Japanese : Kabuki
§ Ka is song bu is dance ki is skill § More for the common people § The most popular § No maskaed used Based on the society of confusionism
types of kabuki
□ Hsitory plays about politcial events □ Domestic plays ® About loves and lives of people □ Dance drama About the world of spritites and animals
Islamic : shadow theater
§ Images are forbidden in the koran
§ They used shadows t show these images
§ They also created puppets
§ Western influences also began to occur
Islamic: Ta’ziyeh
§ Religions drama in iran performed outdoors using animals
§ About the grandson of the prophet
Islamic : talibans rulu
Was a women in theatre
romans: pax romana
the peace of rome
romans : circus maximus
On a holiday to celebrate something
romans : mime
theater that does not have words
romans : platus
slapstick and comic
romans: living adronicus
first playwright thespis
Terence
from African and adopted popular plays
Greek : Polis
city stable was ex trading w Spartan
d thyramn
song sung to the god dienysos
dyanysus
god of fertility and theater celebreated in the spring time
thespis
1st actor on record
choregas
leader of the chorus
theatron
the seeking place
skene
temporary wooden structure
orchestra
dancing place
parts of the play : prologue
- a short speech or scene by one or more actors that sets the location and time and proved the necessary mythological expostition
parts of the play : parados
- “entrance”-
- the entrance of the chorus to the orchestra
- contains many songs and dances
- back ground info
parts of the play : episode
- the actors come out
- second actors are called deutaronist
parts of the play : stasiman
- contains more songs and explains the play so far
aristole
- heroes need to be good but not so goof
- created the 1st formula for tragedy
how is death refer as ?
refer to no longger singing the sun or seeing the light
Dark Ages : Mummers
- people who went aournf with tehri puppet shows
Trope
- were chanted
- they were in the languages that the poor spoke such as saxon
Mansiosn
- rooms
- in each room there was a part of each scene is played ending in the altar
Mystery Plays
- only allowed to perfom only on the outside steps of the church
- only allowed ot perdor in corpus Christi
- stories about saints
- were all fictional plays with characters such as guilt, death , and lust
Pageant wagon
- morality plays
- would do the same scene over and over for people just like in the mansion
Secular Theater
- short non religious plays inserted in large courts
- dance
- were no longer religious plays
The renaissance :
- Constantinople fell
- libraries were burned
- The return to what the greeks had given
humanism
- intellectual movement
- idolizing the ancients
- education no longer with religion
the printing press
- monks hand wrote the bibile
- ## oxford and Cambridge were created
Protestant Reformation
- by the 17th century there was 200 religions that branded out
- religious drama was not banned
Elizabeth theater: Popular theater
simple comedies and dramas for common ppl
Elizabeth theater : Humanist theater
based on imitating the ancient greek and roman drama
- mainly in france
Elizabeth theater : Liturgical theater
- biblical and church traditions
Italian influence : Commedia delarte
- old type comedy
- based on stock characters
- used masked
- lazzi the small plays done by this often lasted only 5 minutes
Artistole and his 3 unities
- unity of time
- unity of place
- unity of action
Neo classiscs
wanted to return to the classics
Declamatory acting style
- interpretation on how greeks performed
- rhetoric like a debate
- delivered lines directly to the audience
- led to opera
Christopher marlo
- he didn’t write as much as shaspear
- attended oxford
Fillipino Brunelleschi
- credited with inventing perspective
-
Lope de Vega
Spanish play wright
Iconoclass
- the period were the puritans censorced everything
Richard Burbeige
- actor and theater manager
- had a very stritic time to practice
Ben Johnson
killed someone
Greece was made up of strong independent city states including all but one of the following
rome
who was not an ancient greek playwright
aristole
emperor who Christianized the roman empire
Constantine
what does hubris mean
an overbearing pride or arrogance towards the gods q
the word tragedy comes from the greek word tragoidia meaning
goat song
plays that happened before the end of the peloponessian war
old comedy
a pivoting greek device used to change scenery quickle during a performance
periaktoi
from 711 to 1492___ dominated much of spain
islam
These plays celebrated the lives of the saints
miracle plays
everyman is an example of a ___ play
morality
during the renaissance the Italians invented what type of scene painting
perspective scene painting
which playwrith homosexual and got stabbed to death
Marlowe
the 800 or so ppl who stood during performances at shakespear globe performance called
the groundlings
one of the first female actors of the Elizabeth period
mary frith
scholards who believed shapeskes was a lie
anti stratfordians
split with the pope to established the Anglican church in England
henry VIII
in shakespears time acting companies were often accused of being
rogues and vagabonds
humanist based their style of declamatory acting on
imafges on greek vases and sculptures
