History of Theatre
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| show | a play intended to be read rather than performed
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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 | a play based on biblical history
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| show | an artificial plot device that an author introduces late in a play to resolve difficulties
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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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| show | the Greek tragedian responsible for increasing the number of actors; he wrote the Oresteia, the only surviving Greek trilogy
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| show | a group of characters that explain the situation and comment on the action of the play
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| Euripides | show 🗑
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| show | a play primarily concerned with teaching right and wrong
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| show | a term often used to refer to an actor
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| show | the author responsible for New Comedy
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| show | the balcony on the second floor of an Elizabethan playhouse
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| show | the Elizabethan playwright who is often considered the greatest dramatist of all time; he wrote Romeo and Juliet
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| show | the German dramatist who wrote Faust
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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 time period following the Puritan Rebellion; theater was decreed legal once again
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| show | a type of Japanese theater that features four-foot-tall marionettes; also called doll theater
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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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| show | the lower-class playgoers of the Elizabethan era who stood in the pit to watch the performances
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| show | a type of Japanese theater that developed as entertainment for the general public; it borrows aspects of No and Bunraku
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| show | the family of actors that links the early American stage with the modern
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| show | the Elizabethan author who is known as a master of English comedy; he wrote Volpone
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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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