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Greek drama originated out of the?
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Dithyrambic chorus
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Dithyrambic Chorus
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A group who sang and danced
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Thespis
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Credited to have stepped out of the chorus to become first actor
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Aeschylus
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Second Actor
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Sophocles
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Third Actor
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Euripides
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Increased Realism, presented sympathetic portrayals of women.
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Aristophanes and Old Comedy
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Makes fun of social, political conditions
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Theatre was built
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into a hillside
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Circular orchestra
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was used as an acting area
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Roman Pantomime
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Used a single dancer
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Comedies
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Based on domestic situation and stock characters
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Tragedies of Seneca influenced renaissance drama?
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1)divided into five episodes
2)interest in morality
3)Scenes of violence and horror
4)Preoccupation with magic
5)Creation of Characters
6)Use of soliloques
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Semicircular Orchestra
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Used for seating audience
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Theatre was a
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freestanding structure
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For western drama, the fall of rome in 476?
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marks the end of organized theater and drama
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The catholic church
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controls every element of society
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liturgical dramas
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enacted inside the church. Built around bible stories.
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Vernacular dramas
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performed outside of the church, they dealt with biblical and other religions
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Mystery or cycle plays?
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Dramatizing series of biblical events.
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Miracle plays
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dramatizing the lives of the saints
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morality plays
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the use of religious characters to teach a moral lesson
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Mansions and pageant wagons?
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house the individual scenic units devices for each plays in a cycle
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Commedia Dell" Arte
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influenced by the early roman-Atellan forces
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Verisimilitude
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drama should be "true to life"
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Three Unities
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Time, place and action
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Tragedy dealt with?
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royalty and must have a sad ending
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comedy dealt with
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common people and end happily
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function of drama?
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was to teach a moral lesson
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Theatre architecture?
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1)Proscenium arch and perspective scenery
2)wing and shutters
3)pole and chariot
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Audience area consisting of?
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Pit, boxes, and gallery
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Religious plays
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outlawed by the crown
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Theatre corrales architecture?
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similar to the theaters in england
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patio
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instead of pit
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cazuela
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seperate are for unaccompanied women
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public theaters closed
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1642
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France was heavily influenced by?
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Italian theatre architecture and dramatic forms.
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France tragedies?
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Pierre corneille's the Cid and Jen Racine's Phaedra
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France Comedies?
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Moliere's Tartuffe and The Miser
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The Hotel de Bourgogne?
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Built in 1548
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Monarchy restored?
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1660
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english restoration theater?
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combined the best elements from renaissance drama
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Moliere
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Comedies called comedies of manners
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Sentimental Comedy
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Like comedies of manners, except it reaffirmed middle class morality.
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Romanticism
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focused on the gulf between human beings.
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Melodrama?
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realistic settings. Emphasis in surface effects.
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creation of the box set?
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between 1800 and 1875
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the booth theater
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built in 1869
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scenery
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could be raised by elevators or flown un from above
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scenic pieces?
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were supported by braces
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Realism
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everything onstage is made to resemble observable, everyday life.
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Realism
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everything onstage is made to resemble observable, everyday life.
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Expressionism
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highly subjective, the dramatic action is seen through the eyes of the protagonist.
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epic theater
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episodic in structure, the purpose of theatre is to instruct.
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designers adolphe appia and edward craig
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created the unit set
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director vsevolod meyerhold's
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include the use of found spaces
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selective realism
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a type of realism that heightens certain details of action,scenery, and dialogue
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theatre of the absurd
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present our existence, including human relationships and human language.
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happenings
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unstructured events that occured with a minimum of planning and organization.
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environmental theater
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treat the entire theater space as a performance area
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