Western Classic Opera

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It began from myth, ritual and ceremony.

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Theatre

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means “place of seeing”

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Theatre

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the person who writes the scripts

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playwright

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the person who rehearses the performers

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director

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the people who produce props to create the scene

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designer and technical crew

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the people who perform on stage

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actors and actresses

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time period of Ancient Theater

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700 B.C.E - 410 C.E.

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Where European theatre began

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Ancient Greece

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Greek theater began around ____ with festivals honoring their _____

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1) 700 B.C.
2) gods

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center of a significant cultural, political, and military power

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Athens

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The Three Well-Known Greek Tragedy Plawrights

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1) Euripides
2) Sophocles
3) Aeschylus

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Three Types of Drama in Ancient Greece Theater

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1) Tragedy
2) Comedy plays
3) Satyr play

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A type of drama that is a compound of two Greek words, “tragos” or “goat” and “ode”

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Tragedy

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A type of drama that dealt with tragic events and have an unhappy ending

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Tragedy

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Why was the word “goat” connected to tragedy?

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it referred to the goats sacrificed to Dionysus before performances, or to goat-skins worn by the performers

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The 1st actor that was called as the “Father of Tragedy”.

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Thespis

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A type of drama derived from imitation that has no traces of origin

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Comedy plays

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Playwright who wrote most of the comedy plays

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Aristophanes

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The playwright who wrote Cyclops

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Euripides

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A type of drama containing comic elements to lighten the overall mood or a serious play with a happy ending

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Satyr play

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It is an ancient Greek from of tragic comedy that featured half-man/half-goat characters known as satyrs

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Satyr play

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The character in Satyr plays that delivered the most humorous lines

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Satyrs

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Theatron

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Theater building

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A large, open-air, structures constructed in the slopes of a hill.

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Theater

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Three main elements of theater

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1) the orchestra 2) the skene 3) the audience

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Part of Greek Theatre where the play, dance, religious rites, and acting took place

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Orchestra

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Part of Greek Theatre that is the viewing place on the slope of a hill

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Theatron

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Part of Greek Theatre that is the stage

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Skene

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Part of Greek Theatre that is the side entrance

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Parados

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Greek Theater

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Epidauros

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A type of ancient theater that started in the 3rd century BC.

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Roman theater

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According to Roman historian Livy, in the 4th century BC, they were the first experienced theater

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Etruscan actors

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Roman drama began with the plays of ___________ in ___________(date)

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1) Livius Andronicus 2) 240 BC

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It was one of the first permanent theaters in Rome, structure similar to the theatron in Athens

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Theatre in Pompey

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The Theater of Pompey included a columned qudrangle called:

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quadriporticus

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It is an elaborately decorated background of theater stage enclosed by the large columned porticos with an expansive garden complex of fountains and statues

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scanae fron

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What are the rooms in the Theater of Pompey dedicated for?

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It is dedicated to the exposition of art and other works collected by Pompey Magnus

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These are the usual themes for Roman theater plays

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1) chariots races 2) gladiators 3) public execution

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The Romans loved to watch _____

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combat, blood sports, and gladiator competition

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What is the type of play during 350 to 250 BC that allowed women to perform on stage

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Comedy plays during Roman Theater

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Time period of Medieval Theater

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500 C.E. - 1400

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What era was when theater performances were not allowed throughout Europe?

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Medieval era

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They started staging their own theater performances based on Biblical stories

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Churches

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They travelled from 1 place to another to perform theater

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minstrels

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Time period of Renaissance Theatre

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1400 - 1600

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A type of play in which the protagonist was met by personifications of moral attributes who try to choose a Godly life over the evil

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Morality plays

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These dramas were formed to recreate Athenian tragedy

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University Drama

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Theatre developed like the Commedia dell'arte and the elaborate masques

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Public theatre

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It is an Italian comedy and a humorous theatrical presentation performed by professional players who travelled in troupes

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Commedia dell'arte

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A dramatic entertainment consisting of pantomime, dancing, dialogue, and song and sometimes players wore masks.

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Elaborate masques

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One of the most prominent supporters of the theatre

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Queen Elizabeth I

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An English play wrote by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville

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Gorboduc

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Famous English poet, playwright and actor and regarded as the greatest writer and dramatist in the whole world.

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William Shakespeare

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When was William Shakespeare baptized and died?

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1) April 26, 1564 2) April 23, 1616

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William Shakespeare's four greatest works of Tragedies

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1) Hamlet 2) Othello 3) King Lear 4) Macbeth

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English Playwright who was the author of The Spanish Tragedy

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Thomas Kyd

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A Renaissance Theatre

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Proscenium

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Time period of Baroque Theatre

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1600 - 1730

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A time period wherein they used technology for a better quality theater

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Baroque Theatre

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Its characteristic is in which the character gods were finally able to come down from the heavens and rescue the hero in dangerous situations and its theater was richly decorated

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Baroque Period

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A Baroque Theatre

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The Teatro Regio in Turin

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Time period of Neoclassical Theatre

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1800-1900

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The period where it was a movement where the styles of Roman and Greek societies influenced the theatre arts

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Neoclassical period

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The characteristics of this theatre is it is elaborate and dramatic

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Neoclassical Theatre