U11 L13 Elizabethan Drama

Question 1

What was the purpose of church plays?

Answer 1

educate latin liturgy

Question 2

What was displayed in mystery plays?

Answer 2

plan of salvation in Old and New testament

Question 3

Mystery plays were performs on what?

Answer 3

pageants

Question 4

What were miracle plays about?

Answer 4

lives of saints and Virgin Mary

Question 5

What were morality plays about?

Answer 5

• dramatized allegory

- personified vices and virtues

Question 6

Where were morality plays most often performed in?

Answer 6

inn courtyard

Question 7

What is considered the transition between medieval morality plays and Elizabethan drama?

Answer 7

interludes

Question 8

Interludes emphasizes () than instruction

Answer 8

amusement

Question 9

Elizabethan playhouses resembled what?

Answer 9

innyards

Question 10

Who viewed from the ground in Elizabethan playhouses?

Answer 10

Groundlings

Question 11

Did women participate in Elizabethan plays?

Answer 11

no

Question 12

Did actors have a good reputation as an Elizabethan actor?

Answer 12

no

Question 13

Costuming in Elizabethan plays were ()

Answer 13

anachronistic

Question 14

Did Elizabethan stages have props, curtains, or artificial lighting?

Answer 14

no

Question 15

What was the first English playhouse and who built it?

Answer 15

The Theatre, James Burbage

Question 16

Most people associate William Shakespeare with which theater?

Answer 16

Globe

Question 17

Where was Shakespeare born?

Answer 17

Stratford on Avon

Question 18

Who did Shakespeare marry?

Answer 18

Anne Hathaway

Question 19

Who were Shakespeare’s children?

Answer 19

• Judith, Hamnet (twins)

- Susanna

Question 20

Shakespeare was an actor and playwright in what company?

Answer 20

Lord Chamberlain’s Men

Question 21

Shakespeare wrote in ()

Answer 21

Modern English

Question 22

How many plays did Shakespeare write?

Answer 22

38