Shakespeare Lang lit honors sem 2 final

Apron stage

a large, rectangular platform that protruded from the back stage area into the center of the audience pit, surrounded on three sides, allowing intimate contact between actors and spectators.

Balcony stage

"upper stage" or a window in the balcony-like "chambers" above the main stage of Elizabethan theaters. Famous in Romeo and Juliet Act 2 Scene 2

Gallery

Covered bench seats

Grounding

lower-class theatergoers in Shakespeare’s time who paid one penny to stand in the open-air "pit" or "yard" of the Globe Theatre, placing them closest to the stage.

Hell

Storage area underneath the stage

Hut

Above the stage with a crane

Inner stage

a curtained, recessed area at the back of the Elizabethan stage, located between two doors in the tiring-house

Lords’ Room

Most expensive seats, had privacy and protection from rain

Patron

Investor in the play

Peddler

traveling vendor, sold fruit and nuts

Pit

Standing area on the stage

Tiring House

Dressing area

Trap door

Opening in stage, could be used in scenes

Turret

Very top of the theatre, flag that represents a play is being shown

Partner

Partial owner of theatre

Act

Major parts of a play

Allusion

Indirect references to things

Aside

Private remark, used to push something out of the way

Blank verse

Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter

Comedy

Play with happy ending

Dramatic Foil

opposite character that balance each other out

Epilogue

Speech at the end of a play

Foreshadowing

Hinting a future event

Media

Way to get messages across in plays

Metaphor

Comparison that describes one thing by stating it is another

Miracle Play

Act of a Bible story, based off Bible stories

Offstage

Somewhere other than on stage

Oxymoron

Contradictory: asserts two or more things cannot both be true at the same, but true words that make a point

Patron

People, supporters who come see plays

Props

Elaborate, add to realism/play

Renaissance

Flowering/rebirth of literature, science, and arts

Stage directions

Comments about movement

Dramatic Poetry

Poetry acted out or used in a play