Histotry of Theater FINAL

Melodrama as a theatrical form directly contributed to the emergence of the what?

Musical

Theater of the Oppressed is the innovation what Brazilian theater-maker?

Augusto Boal

What are the three phases of Post-Colonial Theater?

Imitation, Replacement and Revolutionary

What theater act released the stranglehold that Covent Gardens and Drury Lane had on London Theaters and the 60 new theaters sprang up in response?

The Theatre Regulation Act

What did Marlow do that contributed to the success of Tamburlaine?

He catered the writing of the protagonist to the strengths of the leading man within his company

What are examples of the Comedy of Manners’ legacy in contemporary, popular media and theatre?

The tv sitcom and Romantic comedies

Name the first female-identifying playwright to earn a living outcome form her writing

Aphra Behn

The period known as the Restoration in the UK gave birth to what genre of plays?

Restoration Comedy also known as Comedy of Manners

Name the most globally recognized playwright from the Apartheid period in South America

Athol Fugard

What is “protest theatre” in south Africa a reaction against?

the Apartheid

What does the following define,”A sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and excited events design to appeal to the emotions”

Melodrama

Goethe visit to Italy triggered what movement in German theater?

Weimar Classicism

Name the group of Elizabeth playwrights who harassed Shakespeare of his lack of a college education

University Wits

Which of the following was true of Ben Jonson; he was married to Anne Lewis, He credited with inventing the Comedy of Humors, he believed himself a rival of Shakespeare, he wrote Court Masques and collaborated with scenic design innovator Inigo Jones

all of these above

What was one of Marlowes innovations

He took the mechanics about what worked in verse for latin in the Roman plays and adapting those to English

Which play we’ve read so far features a prologue with the tow sides of the writer’s psyche arguing with an actor-manager (the equivalent of today’s producer)?

Faust

Was West African Concert Party Theatre/Opera is highly scripted drama performed?

No it was improv theatre that has a loose structure

Why did acting troupes in Elizabethan England have noble patrons?

to get around the vagrancy laws against actors, it enabled them to say they were in the employee of Lord Fuzzy Butt

In his lifetime, Shakespeare’s plays were performed at two theater in London. What were they?

The globes and the Blackfriars

The soliloquy in Hamlet is an example of what innovation in playwriting made by Shakespeare

Dialogue that reflects the interiority of a character’s mind mid-process as Hamlet works his way toward a decision

What did Yiddish theater influence when it was exported to the US

it had its own theaters and was a huge influence of Vaudeville

During which period were female identifying actors allowed to preform on stage. Hint it was because King Charles II had spent time in France where he saw women preform

The restoration period

The octagonal shape of Elizabeth theatres was based on what

Bear-Baiting rings

Which performance form from West Africa has its roots in Nigerian Egungun rituals?

Yoruban opera

Shakespeares acting company had two names. What were they?

The Lord Chamberlain’s Men, The King’s Men

What Monarch became their Royal patronage, cuing the name change? (for Shakespeare acting company)

James I

Who is Hanswurt?

“John Sausage” the German clown based on the English clowning tradition

Who created 1,700 new words in the english language?

Shakespeare

Which of the following playwrights had an influence on Goethe?

Kalidasa

How did Kalidasa writitng effect Goethes?

It triggered his shift toward Romanticism

What Yoruban Egungun ritals were present in Death and the King’s Horseman?

costumes Pilkings and his wife are dancing in

When permanent theatres were built in England after the Puritan Republic what were they based off of?

Renaissance Italy and France

The first English Language acting manuals appeared in what period

Restoration

Name the genre: Duchess of Malifi

Jacobean Tragedy

Name the genre: way of the world

Comedy of Manners

Name the genre: Mary Stuart

Romance, Romantic Tragedy

Name the genre: Volpone

Satire; Comedy of Humors

Name the genre: Tamburlaine

Elizabethan drama or tragedy

define sublime

A confrontation with something beautiful and terrifying

what is sublime important to theater

pivotal in German theatre, starting with Sturm und Drang, carrying through to Romanticism.

Name the author: Tamburlaine

Christopher Marlowe

Name the author Hamlet

Shakespeare

Name the author Volpone

Ben Jonson

Name the author The Duchess of Malfi

John Webster

Name the author Tis Pity she’s a Whore

John Ford

Name the author The way of the World

William Congreve

Name the author The Rover

Aphra Behn

Name the author The School for Scandal

Richard B. Sheridan

Name the author Faust

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Name the author Mary Stuart

Friedrich Schiller

Name the author Death and the King’s Horseman

Wole Soyinka

Defined “Breeches Roles”

From the Restoration; roles where female-identifying characters went “undercover” as men, forcing them to wear pants much to the sensational delight of audience members

Who is Charles Brown

In western theater, the first transgendered person to reach success as an actor, playwright, and theater manager, Colley Cibber sons

Define Euphuism

A John Lyly innovation. high academic in speak or literary references worked into the dialogue or play or words of a poem, essentially showing off the education of the writer

define Jacobean Tragedy

A sensational, melodramatic plot packed with reversals, blood, and violence, heavily featuring revenge and themes of morality

Name the three movements of German Theatre from Schiller and Goethe’s era and name a characteristic of each

Sturm und Drag - storm and stress mostly deals with extreme heightened emotion

Weimar Classicism - A return to greek and roman Playwright values

Romanticism

the shift in Aristotelian Thought form The Way Of the World to The School for Scandal. How does each reflect the play being a product of its time

The way of the world is restoration - reflects a reaction against Puritanical morality expectation (no one in this play is goof or behaves as they should) the humor lies more in laughing at the characters.

School for Scandal is Enlightenment - role of humanism, characters are forgiven for mistakes, love is found in marriage, humor comes form a place of laughing with the characters

How does the tonal shift in the plays being written under Elizabeth I and James I reflect the personalities of the monarchs

Elizabeth - encouragement of the arts and education, humanist approach to society, James was parinod scheming fascination with dark arts. Consider comparing hamlet to Duchess of Malfi

Name a positive side effect of Vaudville success

Performance centered training programs increases nationally

where was the first brick and mortar theatre space

Williamsburg VA

Who would be the first black writing team to have a musical produced on Broadway?

Walker and Williams

What is the oldest continuously running theatre in the US

The walnut street theatre

Us born playwrights started emerging during what time period

The Federalist

Why was the Western theatre slow to emerge and establish in the Colonial United States?

early colonizers were puritan, the task of survival did no leave time for diversions and the theater was thought of as british practice

what did Sarah Bernhardt do

the first female identifying person to play Hamlet

what did Edwin Booth do

built the first proscenium theater in the US

what did John Wilkes Booth do

Killed Abraham Lincoln

what did Laura Keene

first female identifying person to manage a theater

what did Steele MacKaye do?

founded the first US acting school

what does the following define, “The first wholly American theatrical form that consisted of racist sketch or variety shows with white performers playing Black characters in blackface makeup, featuring characterizations built on negative stereotypes and song-and-dance moments that romanticized slavery and appropriated the use of African instruments like the banjo”

minstrel shows

What helped the contribute to the commercial success of Vaudeville?

The mass influx of immigrants from Europe to the us in the late 19th century into the early 20th century

When did the term “Broadway” become synonymous with theatrical success?

after the AEA formalized the Broadway contract in 1919

name the founder of the African Grove theater and the first Black playwright to have his work produced in US theatre

William Henry Brown

What was the first play produced in the US written by a black playwright

The Drama of King Shotaway

Who wrote the manifesto on naturalism

zola

What show has influence of Marxist theory

Mother Courage

_________- referes to any play or story that treates the mystery of the human condition with human tenderness

Checkhovian

What genre does the following define, “plays whose plots are driven by the internal desires and psychology of the characters?”

realism

What genre does the following define,”Plays whose plots are driven by the internal desires and psychology of the characters and whose themes and ideas examine the effects of external social, political, and economic forces on its characters and their circumstances”?

Naturalsim

Name one way that the rise of realism in Russia manifested in their theatre’s tech and design elements

real props and sets as opposed to just painted on props

character specific costumes

development and use of soundscapes

realism was a specific reaction against the artificiality of what previous form of theater

Melodrama

What partnership is credited with birthing the genre of realism in its more realized form?

Chekhov and Stanislavski

How did Angelina Weld Grimke get her start as a writer

Working for The Crisis, the NAACP’s newspaper

innovations made by Turgenev in his writing of a Month in the Country?

The circumstances of the plot circle around a domestic drama rather than the intrigues of noble class

Verisimilitude is achieved through a lack of resolution

use of scripted silences to show that the characters thoughts are in process

Which Ibsen play is consider the birth of naturalism and features the iconic line, “I must decide for myself who is right - society or I?”

A Dolls House

what is the ending of Hedda Gabler a direct rebuttal to?

The romantic treatment of suicide, exposing it as brutal and unnecessary tragedy rather then glamorous

What genre is A dolls house

Naturalism

What Genre is Uncle Vanya

Realism

What genre is A Month in the Country

Realism

What Genre is Hedda Gabler

Naturalism

what genre does Rachel adhere to?

Naturalism

what genre does andreyev adhere to

Expressionism

What genre does Maeterlinck adhere to

Static Drama, a sub genre of Symbolism

What genre does Jarry adhere to

Absurdism

What genre does Brecht adhere to

Epic theater

Which play caused a revolt on its opening night and had to be remounted as a puppet show to be palatable to the audience?

Ubu Roi

Who wrote Ubu Roi

Jerry

What did Shaw write

Mrs. Warren’s Profession

What did Wilde write

The Importance of Being Earnest

What did Andreyev write

He who gets slapped