Humanities (Drama) Flashcards
____ tricks Othello into believing that his wife Desdemona is being unfaithful, so that Othello murders her for her alleged crime.
Lago. Othello’s trusted lieutenant and right-hand man.
At the end of _____, the only character left standing is Horatio.
Hamlet
_____ ___ _____ is about the feuding Montagues and Capulets.
Romeo and Juliet
After disbelieving his youngest (and only well-behaved) daughter, _____ _____ leaves his fortune to his evil eldest two girls.
King Lear
_____ murdered Julius Caesar.
Brutus
The author of A Doll’s House was _____?
Henrik Ibsen. Known for his uncanny ability to portray the inner-strength of the 19th century woman.
The playwright _____ wrote many farces, including The Doctor in Spite of Himself, Sganarelle, and George Dandin.
Jean Baptiste Moliere
French dramatist _____ wrote The Romancers and The Women of Samaria.
Edmond Rostand. Most of his play are light, with no dark themes.
_____’s play The Importance of a Being Earnest debuted in 1905.
Oscar Wilde
Author of Waiting for Godot, _____ wrote his original scripts in French and then translated the, himself into English.
Samuel Beckett. Winner of Noble Prize for Literature, he also wrote the drama Endgame.
_____ wrote many avant-grade plays, including the Bald Soprano.
Eugene Lonesco.
Playwright Eugene O’Neil’s autobiographical work, __ ___ ___ _____ into Night, was discovered after his death in manuscript form.
A Long Day’s Journey
Tennessee William won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1947 play ___ ______ ______ _____, about sisters Blanche and Stella.
A Streetcar named Desire
Cat On a Hot Tin Roof was written by _____.
Tennessee Williams
In Greek theaters, the ground the actors stood on was called the _____.
Proscenium. The proscenium was elevated to help establish an upstage and downstage for the audience.
_____ is a transparent fabric used as a drop in the theater to create special effects of light or atmosphere.
Scrim. It is sometimes also lit from the back so that you can see a silhouette.
The start of Greek Tragedy, a _______ was performed by the chorus to the God Dionysus.
Dithyramb. This hymn to Dionysus involved the chorus singing back and forth with a lead singer.
The lead singer of a dithyramb is called the _____.
Thespis. Credited as the father of tragedy, he introduced this additional lead singer to bring dialogue into theater, so the character was named after him.
In Greek theater, the priest or priestess who spoke on behalf of the gods was know as the _____.
Oracle. Greek heroes frequently consult oracles to learn their fate or the next step in their journey, although the news isn’t always to their benefit.
(Oedipus)
The fifteen-century play Everyman is a prime example of a _____ play.
Morality. Popular from the 14th to 16th centuries, morality plays depicted the battle between good and evil through characters who represented one of two values.
_____ killed his father and marries his mother.
Oedipus.
The Oedipus trilogy is composed of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus and Colonus and ______.
Antigone. The daughter of the incestuous affair between Oedipus and his mother.
Daughter of Zeus and Leda, _____ ___ _____ was considered the most beautiful women in existence.
Helen of Troy. She is dubbed “the face that launched a thousand ships” for her influence.
William Shakespeare wrote historical accounts of King _____ IV, V, VI and VII.
Henry
The three final tragedies of Aeschylus are known as the _______.
Oresteia. The three plays are Agamemnon, The Choephoroe, and the Eumendies.
________ ______ is a bold attack by Aeschylus against the vengefulness of the gods.
Prometheus Bound. While Prometheus Bound was meant to be a trilogy, the later two parts have never been found. Aeschylus may have redeemed the gods in later sections.
Greek playwright Aristophanes wrote ________, where Athenian women boycott their spouses in order to end the war.
Lysistrata. Aristophanes wrote satirical plays while denouncing the words of Socrates and the like.
In ___ _______ _______ of Windsor, Shakespeare resurrects Sir John Falstaff, who keeps company with two women that discover one another.
The Merry Wives.
Antonio is arrested and threatened with losing a pound of flesh when he reneges on a loan in “The _______.
Merchant of Venice.
In the Tempest, ______ creates a thunderstorm to trap his brother Ferdinand into coming to the island he and his daughter Miranda have been stranded on for twelve years.
Prosperous. Once the King of Naples, he was tricked by his brother into staying on a deserted island.
In _____ ______, Viola dresses as a man after the (supposed) death of her twin brother, only to be romantically pursed by Olivia.
Twelfth Night.
Close friends Proteus and Valentine are separated in _____ ____ ________ of Verona.
The Two Gentlemen. The two friends meet up in Milan, where they fall in love with the same women Silvia. Though Valentine and Silvia are about to elope, Proteus interferes e dry step of the way in an attempt to gain her for himself.
An African-American women raised in Chicago, Lorraine Hansberry wrote the play ___ _____ ___ ___ _____.
A Raisin in the Sun. The play was a cross between a comedy and a drama, focusing on the everyday life of an average black American Family.
French dramatist _______ write the tragedies Cinna, and Polyecte.
Pierre Corneille, a seventeenth-century writer.
In Greek and Roman tales, women who roamed the forest adorned in animal skins and worshipping Dionysus were called ______.
Bacchae, sometimes referred to as Maenads. These women were said to have danced themselves into wild frenzies and torn apart animals with their bare hands in the excitement.
In Greek mythology, _______ was said to have stolen fire from the gods and given it to man when Zeus mistreated them.
Prometheus. Credited with creating mankind out of clay, he took it upon himself to teach many skills to humans so they could better themselves.
