History of Theatre
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| Passion Play | show 🗑
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| show | the term for an author who mocks human vices and follies by using wit and humor
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| show | a circular arena surrounded by tiers of seats
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| show | a series of acting stations that represented biblical settings; used in Saint and Mystery plays
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| show | an element in drama that evokes sorrow and compassion
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| cycle | show 🗑
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| show | a play based on biblical history
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| show | a type of play that evolved from the Morality plays; these plays were shorter and included humorous incidents
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| deux ex machina | show 🗑
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| show | secular drama that took place during planting time, harvest time, and Christmas; developed simultaneously with liturgical drama
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| Aeschylus | show 🗑
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| Aristophanes | show 🗑
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| Dionysus | show 🗑
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| show | a play based on the legends of saints
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| trilogy | show 🗑
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| show | he received a commission to write the first work of Roman drama
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| show | an ancient Roman writer of bombastic tragedies; his plays were closet dramas
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| show | the Greek tragedian who was a master of pathos; he wrote Medea
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| show | a stage on wheels that was used by the medieval guilds of the fourteenth century
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| show | a play primarily concerned with teaching right and wrong
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| Sophocles | show 🗑
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| thespian | show 🗑
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| Menander | show 🗑
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| soliloquy | show 🗑
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| tarras | show 🗑
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| William Shakespeare | show 🗑
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| show | American dramatist known for such works as Long Day's Journey into Night and The Hairy Ape
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| Goethe | show 🗑
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| commedia dell'arte | show 🗑
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| show | an attempt by Italian playwrights during the Renaissance to revive the music of ancient Greek drama
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| show | created by Zeami Morokiyo, this type of Japanese drama combines words, dance, and music that are rhythmically coordinated to the events in the story
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| show | the Elizabethan playhouse with which Shakespeare was associated
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| Restoration | show 🗑
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| lazzi | show 🗑
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| raked stage | show 🗑
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| innamorati and innamoratae | show 🗑
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| show | a type of Japanese theater that features four-foot-tall marionettes; also called doll theater
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| Stanislavski | show 🗑
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| the humors | show 🗑
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| show | term meaning "rebirth" ; the time between the medieval and modern ages in western Europe
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| show | plot outlines that were posted backstage before each performance of the commedia dell'arte troupes
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| Kabuki | show 🗑
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| show | the Elizabethan dramatist who introduced the first important use of blank verse; he wrote Tamburlaine the Great
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| the Barrymores | show 🗑
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| Ben Jonson | show 🗑
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| show | Chinese drama that incorporates historical, spoken, dance, and song drama and ballet
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| show | Shaw's theory that states, "Of every 1,000 people, 700 do not think, 299 are idealists, and 1 thinks."
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