Introduction to Literature-- Hodgin: Cedarville University

Globe

Shakespeare’s theater was called the…

Groundlings

Spectators who stood on the ground watching one of Shakespeare's plays were called...

Costumes

The most valuable pieces of property that the theater owned were the...

True

True or false:

All of Shakespeare's great female parts were played by boys

Marcellus

"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."

True

True or False: Shakespeare's plays had to be performed by daylight.

1 Penny

Shakespeare's theater goers would have paid how much to stand on the ground and watch a play?

Arthur Miller

Death of a Salesman

Susan Glaspell

Trifles

Christopher Marlowe

Doctor Faustus

Tennesee Williams

The Glass Menagerie

Jane Martin

Beauty

August Wilson

Fences

William Shakespeare

Haml

Soliloquy

In drama, a speech by a character alone onstage in which he or she utters his or her thoughts aloud

Aside

A speech that a character addresses directly to the audience, unheard by the other characters on stage, as when the villain in a melodrama chortles: "Heh! Heh! Now she's in my power!"

Stage Business

Nonverbal action that engages the attention of an audience

Tragedy

A play that portrays a serious conflict between human beings and some superior, overwhelming force. It ends sorrowfully and disastrously, an outcome that seems inevitable

Comedy

A literary work aimed at amusing an audience. In traditional comedy, the protagonist often faces obstacles and complications that threaten disaster but are overturned at the last moment to produce a happy ending

High Comedy

A comic genre evoking thoughtful laughter from an audience in response to the play's depiction of the folly, pretense, and hypocrisy of human behavior

Low Comedy

A comic style arousing laughter through jokes, slapstick antics, sight gags, boisterous clowning, and vulgar humor

Tragic Flaw

A fatal weakness or moral flaw in the protagonist that brings him or her to a bad end

Hubris

Overweening pride, outrageous behavior, or the insolence that leads to ruin, the antithesis of moderation or rectitude

Realism

An attempt to reproduce faithfully on the stage the surface appearance of life, especially that of ordinary people in everyday situations

Naturalism

A type of drama in which the characters are presented as products or victims of environment or heredity.

Comic Relief

The appearance of a comic situation or character, or clownish humor in the midst of a serious action, introducing a sharp contrast in mood

Fences

What play is Troy from

Death of a Salesman

What play is Willy from

Beauty

What play is Carla from

Dr. Faustus

What play is Mephistophilis from

Death of a Salesman

What play is Linda from

Beauty

What play is Bethany from

Hamlet

What play are Marcellus, Polonius, Laertes, and Horatio from

Death of a Salesman

What play is Biff from

Death of a Salesman

What play is Happy from

Trifles

What play is Minnie Write from

Fences

What play are Rose and Gideon from

Fences

What play is Cory from

Death of a Salesman

What play is The Woman from

Hamlet

who said: “Oh from this time forth my thoughts be bloody or be not”

Horatio

who said “Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!”

Marcellus

who said “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”