Quiz 4, 5, and 6 Studyguide

Interludes at the top of play, or between acts that furthered plot in Chinese zaju were

Wedges

Which characters in Commedia dell'arte are usually trying to keep young love interests apart?

Vecchi

Which Early Modern English theater features indoor playing space lit by candlelight where audience members could purchase a seat onstage?

The Blackfriars

Which theatrical form utilizes beautiful and precise puppetry?

Bunkraku

Three normative female roles scene in Elizabethan theatre?

1. Virgin Maids

2. Chaste Wives

3. Celibate Widows

How did commedia dell'arte center literacy, despite being largely improvised form?

Commonplace books would be basis for the the play. In order to improvise you would need to have an understanding of the plays. The actors would need to be literate. Short rehearsals, multiple character actors, need to understand it quick.

What were Onnagata in Kabuki? When ban was lifted, what arguments remained for onnagata practices?

Men who specialized in performing as women. The Samuri ruling class still believed women on stages were going to mix classes, therefore Onnagata was seen as less scandelous.

Three potential challenges that come with learning a role from a cue script.

1. Actors wouldn't be able to understand how long until their line, always be ready to say theirs.

2. Difficult to grasp character and play as a whole.

3. Actors would need to know their line precisely in order to give correct cues.

What was the sharing system? How did they make money with it?

Sharing system is when the theatre owners, some playwrights, and sometimes actors would hold a share in the Theatre. As money went into the Theatre there would be money going to the shareholders.

How do you become a Kabuki actor?

Typically men would be born into it, some train since childhood.

What religious group in English Civil War shuttered theaters because they believed theatre to be depraved and licentious?

Puritans

What in neoclasicism is the quality of appearing true to life, realistic, and dramatically probable?

Verisimilitude

What is the predominant form of secular drama in 16th and 17th centuries during Spanish Golden Age?

Comedias

Shakespeare's plays incorporated humanist teachings while appearing to popular sentiment. (true or false)

True

Ana Caro, Mallen de Soto, Leonor de la Cueva y Silva, Feliciana Enriquez de Guzman and Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor's plays ___

Were NOT frequently performed in their own time

How did Spain's Phillip IV use theatre to bolster absolutism?

When Calderon succeeds at being Spain's most popular playwright, he leaves writing for Public theatres and instead focuses on auto sacramentales and on plays that glorify the king. He also had performances held in his palace.

Three unities of neoclassicism

1. Place (1 location)

2. Time (1 day or 12 hours)

3. Action (1 plot)

Two theatrical innovations in Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz's auto sacramentales or secular plays.

1. Spoke out against treatment of Natives in the Americas.

2. For feminism and spoke out against the crown.

Why did Cardinal Richelelieu and the Academy speak out against Pierre Corneille's play, Le Cid?

Wanted france to grow politically and Le Cid went against decorum (neoclassicism). Too much happened.

What is the principal of perspective and how did perspective scenery use it?

They used math to make flat scenery look farther away (depth). The best seat would be dead center which is where royalty would have sat.

Allegory, grandeur, metamorphosis, sensuality, playfulness, and emotional extremes are examples of what?

Baroque

Which restoration playwright penned The Rover, in which female characters are as sexually motivated as the cavaliers?

Aphra Behn

Who advocated for Enlightenment reform through his often controversial and religiously-minded neoclassical plays?

Voltaire

The Chariot-and-pole systems were ___

MORE expensive than wing-and-groove

Castrati singers often played secondary, young, and/or comedic riles in opera seria. (true or false)

False

How did Jean Racine's play, Phedre, blend neoclassical rules and cartesian rationalism to provide sharp conflicts between duty and desire?

Play is about Queen's desire for for step-son but is bound by rules of decorum. Desires she had were not neoclassical. She uses reson to not date her step-son and then kills herself (her "rational" response)

What is scena per angolo (angle perspective) and how did it visually open the operatic stage?

Two point perspective (or more) which made scenery appear deeper. You could have things in foreground and backing going to two pints, rather than one.

What is recitative and how does it further the story in Baroque opera?

Speech pattern atop music. One of the only things to further the story, that's it's whole purpose. Opposed to De Capo or Cadenza which served to show off.

Two ways in which Moliere's plays exhibit elements of carnivalesque.

1. Mocking of neoclassical rules and Rulers and Religion (servants smartest, mocking official language, cuckholding, travesty)

2. Mixing humor and seriousness (hiding under tables)

How did Deus ex Machina at the end of Tartuffe, reinforce King Louis XIV's absolutist rule in France?

At the end of Tartuffe, the king sends an officer to arrest Tartuffe which fulfills Poetic Justice. Further solidified his rule because it showed images of king being the hero and justice.