Plays

Question 1

What are the Author, region, time period, original performance practices, and setting of The Bacchae?

Answer 1

Author: Euripides
Region: Athens
Time Period: Antiquity
Original performance practices: Greek Theater
Setting: Thebes

Question 2

What are the Author, region, time period, original performance practices, and setting of Assemblywoman?

Answer 2

Author: Aristophanes
Region: Athens
Time period: Antiquity
Original Performance practices: Greek theater

Question 3

What are the Author, region, time period, original performance practices, and setting of Menachami?

Answer 3

Author: Plautus
Region: Greece
Setting: Syracuse
Time Period: Antiquity

Question 4

What are the Author, region, time period, original performance practices, and setting of The Hermit and the Harlot?

Answer 4

Author: King Mahendravarman
Region: Southern India
Time Period: Antiquity
Original performance practices: Sanskrit theater

Question 5

What are the Author, region, time period, original performance practices, and setting of The Amazing Preacher and the Stranger?

Answer 5

Author: Ibn Daniyal
Region: Egypt
Time Period: 1267 (Medieval times)
Original performance practices: Shadow Puppet Show
Setting: Streets of Cairo

Question 6

What are the author, region, time period, original performance practices, and setting of Miidera?

Answer 6

Author: Anonymous
Region: Japan
Time Period: Medival
Original performance practices: Noh
Setting: Giant bell onstage, musicians are onstage, drums and flutes, trained performers, roofed
Temple, in legend time

Question 7

What are the author, region, time period, original performance practices, and setting of Rabinal Achi?

Answer 7

Author: Translated by Dennis Tedlock
Region: Mesoamerica- Mayan Play- Town of Rabinal, in the highlands of Guatemala
Time Period: Developed in the 15th century CE (Medieval times)
Original performance practices: Quiche language song-dance-drama
Setting: Loose montage of events over six generations around 14th century

Question 8

What are the author, region, time period, original performance practices, and setting of Everyman?

Answer 8

Author: Carol Ann Duffy (The translation we “read”)
Region: England
Time Period: 15th Century (Medieval times)
Original performance practices: Morality Play- Allegorical and still deeply connected to the church though performed for a larger public
Setting: Everywhere? It’s an allegory

Question 9

What are the author, region, time period, original performance practices, and setting of Twelfth Night?

Answer 9

Author: William Shakespeare
Region: England
Time Period: 17th Century (Early Modern)
Original performance practices: Elizabethan theater
Setting: Illyria

Question 10

What are the author, region, time period, and setting of The Duchess of Malfi?

Answer 10

Author: John Webster
Region: Early Modern England
Time Period: 17th Century (Early Modern)
Setting: Loosely based on historical events: 15th-16th Century Italy

Question 11

What are the author, region, time period, and setting of Tartuffe?

Answer 11

Author: Moliere
Region: France
Time Period: Early Modern

Question 12

What are the author, region, time period, and setting of Loa to the Divine Narcicssus?

Answer 12

Author: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. ​
Region: Mexico
Time Period: Colonial

Question 13

What are the author, region, time period, and setting of The Physician by Force (Commedia Scenario)?

Answer 13

Author: Pulcinella
Region: Italy
Time Period: Early Modern
Original performance practices: Commedia dell’arte

Question 14

What are the author, region, time period, and setting of The Contrast?

Answer 14

Author: Royall Tyler
Region: New York
Time Period: Colonial