Quiz 7

Question 0

Modernism

Answer 0

Name for art of a period (roughly 1890-1950) identified by radical experimentation with form and nonrealism

Question 1

Miracle play

Answer 1

Medieval play treating the lives of saints

Question 2

Monopoly

Answer 2

Legal control or exclusive domination of a theatrical locale

the courts of both France and England in the late seventeenth century, for example granted licenses to a limited number of theaters that thus gained monopolies

Question 3

Morality play

Answer 3

Allegorical medieval play, like “Everyman”, that depicts the eternal struggle between good and evil that transpires in this world, using characters like Vice, Virtue, Wisdom, and so on

Question 4

Motivation

Answer 4

In Stanislavskian vocabulary, the internal springboard for an action or a set of behaviors onstage

Question 5

Mystery plays

Answer 5

Usually drawn from biblical stories, these medieval plays were often staged in cycles, treating events from the creation to the Last Judgement

Often staged in connection with Christian festivals, some mysteries were quite elaborate and took days or even weeks to perform

Question 6

Naturalism

Answer 6

A style of theater and drama most popular from c. 1880 to 1900 that dealt with the sordid problems of the middle and lower classes in settings remarkable for the number and accuracy of details

Practitioners included Emile Zola, Andre Antoine, and Maxim Gorky

Question 7

Neoclassicism

Answer 7

A style of drama and theater from the Italian Renaissance based loosely on interpretations of Aristotle and Horace

Major tenets were verisimilitude, decorum, purity of genres, the five-act form, and the twofold purpose of drama: to teach and to please

Question 8

New comedy

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That form of Greek comedy dating from the Hellenistic and Graeco-Roman periods and treating the domestic compilations of the Athenian middle class

A major source for Roman comedy

Question 9

Noh

Answer 9

Austere, poetic drama of medieval Japan, based in Zen Buddhism

Question 10

Not-for-profit

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Professional theater whose income comes only partly from ticket sales, the rest from donations and grants

Given federal tax breaks

Question 11

Objective

Answer 11

In Stanislavskian vocabulary, a character’s goal within a beat or scene

The goal of a motivation

Question 12

Obstacle

Answer 12

Barrier, difficulty

In acting, something preventing the reaching of an objective

Question 13

Old comedy

Answer 13

That form of Greek comedy written during the classical period and featuring topical political and social commentary set in highly predictable structural and metrical patterns

Question 14

Orchestra

Answer 14

1. ) That area of the Greek and Roman theater that lay between the audience area and the scene house
2. ) Originally the circular space where actors and chorus danced and performed plays; later a half circle that was used as a seating space for important people and only occasionally as a performance area
3. ) In modern times, the prized seating area on the ground level of a theater and adjacent to the stage

Question 15

Open theater

Answer 15

Important American avant-garde theater, 1960s and 1970s; major influence on acting and production

Question 16

Pace

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Apparent rate of performance; partly a matter of speed with which the performance goes forward, but also related to intensity of action and complication and the artistic ways (actor’s intensity, for example) that the action is realized

Question 17

Pageant

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In the medieval period, a movable stage, a wagon on which plays were mounted and performed in parts of England, Spain, and occasionally continental Europe

By extension, the plays performed on such wagons

Question 18

Patio

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Ground-level audience area in the Spanish corrales

Question 19

Performance

Answer 19

In life, the execution of an action (or the action executed) or a behavior taken in response to a stimulus

In art, the action of representing a character in a play, or more generally, any public presentation

Question 20

Performance art

Answer 20

An avant-garde form that blends several arts (most often music, painting, dance, and theater) into a visual, more than literary, expression of an often very personal truth