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Theater words Flashcards

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Abbey Theatre

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Associated with Irish Literary Revival. Was the outgrowth of the earlier Irish Literature Theatre, which later became the Irish National Theatre Society and still later moved to the theater in Dublin

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Academic Drama

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Plays written and performed in schools and colleges in the Elizabethan age

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Act

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A major division of a drama

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Actor-Manager

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A theater manager who also acts; a familiar type during the century after 1865

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Ambo

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A stage direction meaning “both” Shakespeare’s Much Ado about nothing includes “exeunt ambo” both go out

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Anagnorisis

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In drama, the discovery or recognition that leads to the perpety or reversal

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Arena Stage

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A stage on which actors, surrounded by the audience, make exits and entrances through the aisles. Sometimes the stage is against the wall with the audience on three sides

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Aside

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A dramatic convention by which an actor directly addresses the audience but is not to be heard by the other actors on the stage

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Audition

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A test in which a performer seeking employment appears before judges who many become employers of colleagues

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Backstage

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An area behind and around outer stage of a theater, with spaces for storage or prop and costumes, dressing rooms, office, and so forth

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Bill

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The items making up a theatrical program; also the list of such items

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Boulevard Drama

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A term applied to sophisticated comedy and melodrama popular in the French theater in the nineteenth century. Centered around the Opera house

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Bourgeois Drama

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A nearly obsolete term applied to plays that show the life of the common folk and the middle class rather than that of the courtly or the rich

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Box Set

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A stage that realistically represents a room with three walls, with the fourth wall being imagined on the side toward the audience

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Choral Character

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A character in a play or a novel who stands from the action and comments on it or speaks out about it as a communal voice

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Chronicle Play

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A type of drama flourishing in the later part of Elizabeth’s reign which drew its English historical materials from the sixteenth century chronicles

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Classical Tragedy

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This term may refer to the tragedy of the ancient Greek and Romans as Sophocles. Or tragedies with Greek and Roman subject as Shakespeare. Or modern tragedies modeled on Greek and Roman Tragedy

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Closet Drama

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A play designed to be read rather than acted

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Coup de Theatre

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A surprising and usually unmotivated stroke in a drama that produces an sensational effect

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Curtain

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A piece of heavy material the screens the stage from the audience and by being raised or opened and lowered or closed marks the beginning and end of an act or scene

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Curtain Call

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An act of homage by an audience who –by sustained applause– call for performers to reappear on stage one or more times after the curtain has fallen

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Curtain Line

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The last line before a curtain falls ending a scene, act, or whole drama. Typically dramatic

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Curtain Raiser

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A short play presented before the principal dramatic production on a program

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Cyclic Drama

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The great cycles of medieval religious drama

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Dinner Theater

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An establishment–popular in the United States since about 1960– in which a meal is served, after which a play or other is performed

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Director

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In theater and film, the individual in charge of the artistic organization of the staging or filming, as distinct from the strictly technical of financial aspects of the operation

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Domestic Tragedy

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Tragedy dealing with the domestic life of the commonplace people

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Double act

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An act that routinely involves two performers seldom or never appearing severalty

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Drama

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In the stricter and older sense that is usually employed by folklorists, the term means dramatic activities of the folk – the unsophisticated treatment of the folk themes by the folk themselves

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Dramaticle

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A little drama. The term ordinarily disparages and dismisses a miniature work

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Dramatis Personae

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The characters in a drama, novel, or a poem. The term is also applied to a listing of the character in the program of a play, at the beginning of the printed version of a play, or sometimes at the beginning of a novel.

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Elizabethan Drama

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Indicated the body of English drama produced in the century preceding the closing of the theaters in 1642

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Heroic Drama

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A type of tragedy and tragic developed in England during the Restoration, characterized by excessive spectacle, violent conflicts among the main character, bombastic dialogue, and epic personages

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History Play

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Strictly speaking, any drama whose time setting is in some period earlier than witch is written

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Legitimate Theater

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The presentation of regular plays depending entirely on acting on a stage before an audience, using living actors

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Libertine Play

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A work concentrating on a libertine –almost always a man. The treatment may be satirical, farcical, comic, or tragic –all with a strong dose of moral didactiscism

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Line of Business

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A performer’s typical range of roles

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Liturgical Drama

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A name for the early phase of medieval religious drama when the mystery plays were performed as part of extension of the liturgical service of the drama

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Medieval Drama

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A term that includes all the drama in the middle ages, although religious drama and its allied forms are usually meant

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Mock Drama

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A term applied to plays whose purpose is to ridicule the theater of the time

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Mystery Play

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A medieval play base on biblically history; a scriptural play

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Noh plays

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The most important form of Japanese drama, literally means “highly skilled or accomplished.” They are harmonious combinations of dance, poetry, music and acting

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Oblique rhyme

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Approximate but not true rhyme. Another term for near rhyme, half rhyme and slant rhyme

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Off stage

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Literally not on stage

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Off-Broadway

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Associated with an area of Manhattan away from the prime theater district around Broadway and times square

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On Stage

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Literally or figuratively on a stage

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One-Act play

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A form of drama that has come into its own since about 1890. Before they had been used chiefly on vaudeville programs and as curtain raiser in the legitimate theater

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Passion Play

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A drama that portrays a portion of the life of a god

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Pastoral Drama

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The pastoral conventions so popular at times in poetry and in the pastoral romance are also reflected in a form of drama occasionally cultivated by English dramatists

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Patent Theaters

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The removal of the ban against theatrical performances in England in 1660 resulted in much rival activity among groups seeking to operate playhouses

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Private Theaters

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Came along about 1596, when the Blackfrairs theater was so described by its sponsors, who were seeking privileges not granted to public theaters

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Problem Play

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Analogue in nondramtic fiction. Used both in a broad sense to cover all serious drama in which problems of human life as such and in more specialized sense to designate the “drama of ideas”

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Public Theaters

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The English playhouse developed in the Elizabethan Age in response to the increased interest in the drama

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Religious Drama

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A term applied to the drama of the Middle Ages when its relation to the church and to religious subject was very great

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Revenge Tragedy

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A form of tragedy made popular on the Elizabethan Stage by Tomas Kyd.
Themes include:
Hesitation of the hero
The use of either pretend or real
insanity
suicide
intrigue
able scheming

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Saint’s play

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A medieval play based on the legend of a saint

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Satyr play

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The fourth and final play in the bill of tragedies in Greek drama; so called because the chorus was made up of satyrs

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School plays

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One of the most important traditions contributing to the development of Elizabethan drama was the practice of writing and performing plays at school

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Scriptural Drama

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Plays based on the old and new testaments, produced first by churches and them by town guildin the middle ages.

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Senecan Tragedy

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The nine Latin tragedies attributed to the stoic philosopher Seneca were modeled largely on the Greek Tragedies of Euripides. Written to be recited rather than acted

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Set

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The physical equipment of a stage, including furniture, properties, lighting and backdrops

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Stage

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The physical area on which theatrical performances take place. As metonymy is also means the life of the theater

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Stage Directions

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Material that an author, editor, prompter, performer. or another person add to a text to indicate movement, attitude, manner, style or quality of speech, character or action

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Theater in the Round

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The presentation of plays on a stage surrounded by the audience

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Theater of Cruelty

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A concept originated in the 1930s by Antonin Artaud, whereby the theater becomes a ceremonial act of magic puragation

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Theater of the Absurd

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A term invented by Martin Esslin for the kind of drama that presents a view of the absurdity of the human condition by the abandoning or usual or rational devices and by the use of nonrealistic fiction

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Thesis play

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A drama that presents a social problem and proposes a solution; sometimes known by the French “piece a these”

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Tragedy

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A term with many meaning and applications. In drama, it refers to a particular kind of play definition of which was established by Aristotle’s Poetics. In narrative it refers to a body of work recounting the fall of persons of high degree

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Tragedy of Blood

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An intensified form of the revenge tragedy popular on the Elizabethan stage. It works out the theme of revenge and retribution through murder, assassination, mutilation, and carnage

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Understudy

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A member of a theatrical company designated to prepare to take the place of a major performer of other person

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University Plays

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Plays produced by undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge during the Elizabethan Age

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Upstaging

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A stage movement in which one performer moves upstage of another, forcing the latter to turn away from the audience

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Virgin Play

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A medieval non scriptural play based on saints’ lives in which the Virgin Mary takes an active role in performing miracles

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War of the Theaters

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A series of quarrels among certain Elizabethan dramatists. Ben Johnson and John Marston were the chief opponests

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Well-made play

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Certain problem plays, comedies or manners, and farces in the ninteenth century, praticular in France but also in Enland and America. This term describes tight logical construction with apparent inevitability. They usually contain these conventions
1. A plot based on a withheld secret that being revealed at the climix, produces a faborable reveral for the hero
2. Stedily mounting suspense depending on rising action exactly timed entrances, mistaken identity, miplaced documents and a battle of witts between hero and villian
3. A climax culminating in an obligatory scene in which the withheld secret is reveled and the referral of the hero’s fortunes achieved
4. a logical denouement

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