Th Final

Question 1

Ancient Greece. Euripides. Title role is going to be sacrificed for wind to move the ships so people can go to war. She goes willingly, not initially, because she wants to be a hero, patriotic, doing it for “glory of greece”. Politician pep talk.

Answer 1

Iphaginia

Question 2

Ancient Greece. Aristophanes. Women have sex strike, domestic labor strike, no house work, in order to stop the war. They are successful in doing so. At the end they go back home.

Answer 2

Lysistrata

Question 3

Ancient Greece. Sophocles. Title role wants to bury her brother. Her uncle, Creon, doesn’t want her to bury her brother. She thinks most important thing is the gods of the family, Creon thinks it’s the state.

Answer 3

Antigone

Question 4

Republican Rome. Plautus. Plot includes: Tricky slave, an old man, ungenerous with his most prized possession and hides it obsessively, to ridiculous extents. Towards the end, the old man becomes most generous. Play is incomplete. Stock characters.

Answer 4

Pot of gold

Question 5

Imperial Rome. Seneca. Play opens with ghost Tantalus, who is with a fury, a vengeance spirit. In this play a man eats his own children, the chef being his brother. Most likely not performed, meant to be read. Author was a philosopher, apart of the stowick movement.

Answer 5

Thyestes

Question 6

Sanskrit Drama. Kalidasa. Written in India. Title role is a woodland beauty living on a hermitage. Lives with hermits, doesn’t look like one though. She meets a prince, gets pregnant, he leaves, then she goes to follow him but she looses the ring and he doesn’t remember her because she was cursed for not welcoming…somebody? They get back together in the end.

Answer 6

Shakuntula

Question 7

Sanskrit drama. Bhrarata. Rasa - emotion, or taste. about mixing flavors together.

Answer 7

Natyasastra

Question 8

Medieval European Theatre. Hrotsvitha. Author was a nun who wrote plays. Male character in play kisses pots and pans. Modeled on roman comedy. Play is religious.

Answer 8

Dulcitius

Question 9

Medieval European Theatre. Unknown Author.

Answer 9

The wake fields second Shepards play

Question 10

Yuan Dynasty Drama, China. Guan Hanqing. About marriage, poison…Title role is framed for murder, she pulls out magical powers. Delivers crazy prophecy before she dies. A working class woman. Her prophecy is that is she is innocent it will snow in the winter, and her blood will go up and won’t touch the ground. There will also be a drought. She receives justice by finding her dad, however she is a ghost at this point.

Answer 10

Injustice to Dou E

Question 11

Japan style of theatre. Karen Brazell. Features comedy plays that go between the dramas.

Answer 11

Noh and Kyogen elements of style

Question 12

Noh theatre. Zeami.
Actress who plays the title role, being confronted in the mountains by the real title role. Masked performers. Author talks about flower, and novelty, also into a pause, actors suspecting a moment, doing nothing but inner tension, creates novelty.

Answer 12

Yamamba

Question 13

Medieval Arabic Theatre. Muhammed Ibn Daniyal. From Egypt, written in Arabic. Performed with Shadow puppets. Inappropriate play. Dark side of humanity. A lot of narration, action happens off stage, more of a story.

Answer 13

The shadow spirit

Question 14

The Italian Renaissance. Performed in the streets. Improved. They had scenarios and jokes, called lazzie. Very silly, lots of physical comedy. Used stock characters. Wearing masks. Tricky servant shows up a lot.

Answer 14

Commedia Del arte

Question 15

Two point perspective. When one point, in the back of the theatre, the vanishing point….. Perspective is the big thing here. makes everything looks like its disappearing and you can see forever. Single point perspective. Painted, fancy, expensive sets, for big fancy theatres. Painted flats. How stage image changes is very important.

Answer 15

Italian set design

Question 16

Spanish Golden Age. Pedro Calderon de la Barca. Had little interludes Juan Rana, looked like a frog. Spanish plays are three acts with interludes in-between the acts. What happens in the play is.. at the top of the play a woman is dressed as a man, in the woods and finds a tower with a man inside, chained up, the man is the prince, he is chained up because of a prophecy. So the king decides to let him free because he wants to see if the prophecy is true and if he’ll be a good king and he doesn’t act very well, he kills somebody, tries to rape a woman, he behaves very badly, then they put him back in the play and they try to convince him that it was all a dream. But then other people come and free him again, but this time he acts good and does the right things, he learns his lesson. About lines between dreams and reality. the people wanted him to be king.

Answer 16

Life is a dream

Question 17

Colonial New Spain. Unknown author. Comedy. About making fun of spanish colonial authorities. Indigenous character who plays lots of tricks on the colonial officials who are very greedy and makes fools out of them and runs away with wine and riches. They tried to band performance, music and dance at beginning of the play. this is why the title role comes in to try to make fools of them. convinced them he has to sing and dance repeatedly.

Answer 17

El Gueguense

Question 18

Elizabethan Tragedy. Christopher Marlowe. Goes to hell, makes a pact with devil named Mesastopholies. Title role gets powers from summoning this demon. He doesn’t get a great deal of power, just simply magic tricks. becomes famous musician.

Answer 18

Faustus

Question 19

Jacobean Tragedy. John Webster. Gore. Title role wants to marry a lower class man, her servant. her brothers do not like this idea. one of her brothers is a cardinal in the catholic church, a priest. does not behave like a priest however, he murders Julia, his mistress, with a poisoned bible. Other brother imprisons the duchess and torchures her. he brings out waxed figures of family members to convince her they are dead. he also brings crazy people to her. psychological torture. surrounding her by madmen song and dance routine. He also gives her a corpse hand. He kills her, and he feels bad and goes crazy and goes insane, thinks he’s a wolf, going around at night digging up graves, and everyone in the play dies. everyone gets stabbed in the end.

Answer 19

The duchess of Malfi

Question 20

Edo Period Japan. Chikamatsu Monzaemon. Written for puppet theatre. Adapted for Kabuki. Koharu is a prostitute, Jihi is her lover, who is a married man, he is sensitive, they kill themselves because they can’t be together. The wife of Jihi gives him permission because she is scared that Koharu will kill herself and she will be responsible. She does it to save Koharu, not her husband. before they kill themselves, they cut their hair off to become monks to get rid of their attachment to the world so they don’t have to be reincarnated.

Answer 20

The love suicides at amijima

Question 21

Man who plays female roles in kabuki theatre.

Answer 21

Onogata

Question 22

French Neoclassicism. Moliere. Does not follow the rules. Written for the court theatre. comedy. with ballet between every act. because thats what the king wanted. About a middle class gentleman, trying to act like an aristocrat. His daughter wants to get married. He dresses like a turkish person. and speaks gibberish, stages turkish style dances. They get married in the end. At the beginning he is trying to learn, he has masters over and philosophers. he learns vowels and he speaks in prose. he learns nothing of value. there is a spunky maid. and two lovers at the middle,

Answer 22

The would be gentleman

Question 23

French Neoclassicism. Pierre Corneille. Time Place and Action. The three unities. Things that a good play or tragedy must have. Unity of time means it doesn’t have to be strict but the action of the play shouldn’t take longer than a day, action of the play takes place over a single day. The place has to stay the same. He thinks audience won’t follow if there is too much places. Single main action through chorus of the play.

Answer 23

Of the three unities of time place and action

Question 24

Restoration England. Aphra Behn. Nuns, carnival, wants to get laid and have fun, man who can’t get it up. doesn’t want to marry old man. sister is in love with someone. rover, from england. both get what they want. get to chose their husbands. angelica is a prostitute. very nice and high class. florinda is almost rapped twice but her ring proves she is of high class.

Answer 24

The rover