Theater History exam 2

Naumachiae

Flooding a roman arena for mock sea battles

Differences between Greek and Roman architecture

Not built on holy land, man made hillsides

Patrubius

Wrote a book on how to build a theatre

Dark ages

unsafe everywhere

David Rogers Description of the Chester Cycle

Gave a description of processional staging and the pageant wagon. Three days and 24 plays. 

Non Secular vs. Secular

Religious plays and non religious plays

Amalarius

Bishop who blended ritual drama with audience participation 

Tropes

Hym or sung passage; very slw

Pageant Wagon

Made like a house, open on the top. Some had four wheels and others had six. Top was used as the stage and bottom was used as a dressing room. 

Protestant Repformation

Queen Elizabeth outlawed religious plays

Morality Plays

a kind of drama with personified abstract qualities as the main characters and presenting a lesson about good conduct and character. Not as religious as cycle plays. Performed in Taverns, farces. Done by professional actors. Performed for profit unlike cycle plays. ‘ManKind.’ 

Cycle Plays (Mystery Plays)

Reveals the mysteries of God. Performed by the various trade guilds to understand the Bible. ‘Second Shepards Play’

Secular Plays

a play that is not religious or spiritual in nature, focusing instead on worldly or temporal subjects Performed by professional actors. ‘Cave of Salamanca’ 

Were there theatres in medieval time?

No, theatre was performed around towns and in churches but there were no actual theatres. 

What was the only country that continued religious plays after they got outlawed by Queen Elizabeth?

Spain

Hrotsvitha

a secular canoness who wrote drama and Christian poetry under the Ottonian dynasty.