Final Sem 1

Question 1

Inns of Court

Answer 1

Dormitory of law students/university wits

-became one of the first theaters

Question 2

Public/outdoor theaters

Answer 2

Forerunners wee inns or bearbating halls

• accommodates more people
• charges less
• built outside of city limits of London due to opposition of theaters based on moral grounds
• platform stage

Question 3

Private/indoor Theater

Answer 3

Catholic monasteries taken over by government and turned into private theaters

• no proscenium arch
• high Windows
• vaulted ceilings
• more expensive
• no standing, benches on ground
• no heavens

Question 4

3 private theaters

Answer 4

1) Blackfriars
2) Whitefriars
3) White Hall

White Hall built by Inigo Jones

Question 5

3 eras of Renaissance English Theater

Answer 5

1) Elizabethan
2) Jacobian
3) Carolinian

Question 6

Public Theater Names

Answer 6

North of City Boundaries:
The Theatre
The Curtain
The Red Bull
Fortune
Boars Head 
Red Lion
Phoenix/Cockpit

To the south:
The Swan
The Rose
The Globe
The Hope
Southark

Question 7

Greek New Comedy

Answer 7

Focus on lower class
Concerns are more local, regional, agricultural, small town politics, theft, greed
Domestic issues like “Who will marry my daughter?”
Love affairs and triangles
Influenced Plautus and Terence
Five Acts
Reduced chorus

Question 8

Plautus

Answer 8

Roman version of 3 stooges
Used Greek New Comedy style
Very local

Stichomythia - one liners said in response between 2 characters like Abbott and Costello

Heavy use of slapstick

Question 9

Horace

Answer 9

Dulce et decorumest - sweet and decorous/proper behavior

Tragedy and new comedy should never be mixed

5 acts in a play

Purpose of theater was to entertain, educate and turn a profit

Question 10

Seneca

Answer 10

Violence and ugliness on stage

Sententiae - little moral one liners about the moral tradition/immorality of the people

Soliloquies - audience can hear characters thoughts as if they’re talking

Asides

Confidants

Supernatural

Obsession with passion

Question 11

Roman theaters

Answer 11

Built out of stone, permanent

Scaena frons

Question 12

Roman Amphitheater

Answer 12

Larger than stone theater

Circus Maximus held chariot races, circuses, farces, athletics demonstrations

Naumachina - reenacting navy battles by flooding theater

Question 13

Medieval theater Middle Ages theater

Answer 13

Christianity killed theater

Question 14

Hrosuitha of Gandersheim

Answer 14

First female playwright, a nun, read Roman plays, loves Terence, adapts his plays

Question 15

3 types of Middle Ages plays

Answer 15

Morality - allegory, every character represents an idea or value

Mystery - sacred history, starts at creation all the way to future judgement days

Miracle - lives of the saints, hagiography, divine interventions in human affairs

Question 16

Neutral Staging

Answer 16

Fixed staging in courtyard of church

Question 17

Procession v Stationary

Answer 17

Procession - wagons moved around a stationary audience

Stationary - audience moves around a stationary wagon

Question 18

Queen Elizabeth’s final lineage

Answer 18

To rid of church in theater

Question 19

Old comedy

Answer 19

Upper society 
Doesn't follow tragic structure, episodes can be moved around, 
Parody, satire
Simple episodic plot 
Happy idea
Climax is when happy idea fails 

Pro logos
Parados
Agon
Episodos/stasimon
Parabasis 
Revel

Costumes vibrant exaggerated grotesque exaggerated body rolls
Many locations long time span

Question 20

Agon

Answer 20

Debate over happy idea

Question 21

Parabasis

Answer 21

Chorus speaks directly to audience, makes fun of spectators and specific Audience members

Question 22

Neoclassical comedy

Answer 22

Lower, middle class, shopkeep

Moral lessons

Verisimulitudeness

3 unities, TPA

No supernatural

Stories of domestic affairs/local politics

Modeled on new comedy

Less poetic language, more prose

Has to have happy contrived ending

Question 23

Who in control of Greek theater

Answer 23

Archon, an appointed government city state official, chose the plays before the festival

Archon appointed a choregois, a producer, for each playwright, to raise money and pay for rehearsals costumes and musicians

Question 24

Parts of public theater

Answer 24

tiring house, stage house
-first floor had “discovery space” and doors

Roof from tiring house called “heavens” or “shadows”

Yard is where groundlings stood

Question 25

Organization of Elizabethan acting companies

Answer 25

Householders- star members of troupe that are given part ownership in a theater to stay with company. Also people that owned theater buildings and rented them to acting companies

Shareholders - elite members, bought percentage ownership of troupe and revived fluctuating profits

Hirelings - actors contracted for specific periods of time and money, usually played minor roles

Apprentices - young performers in training, assigned to shareholders
-received room, board, training and experience

Question 26

Lord Chamberlains Men

Answer 26

Shakespeare’s acting company

Became “The Kings Men” under King James rule

Question 27

Roman acting powers

Answer 27

Festivals under jurisdictions of local govt that hired acting troupe

Dominus the head of troupe/lead actor, made financial arrangements, bought dramas from playwrights, hired musicians and obtained costumes

Question 28

Christopher Marlowe

Answer 28

Created iambic pentameter
-5 beats in a line, 2 syllables for each beat

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