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Lit Hist/Periods

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Augustan Age   Roman literature AND 18th century neoclassical  
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Cothurni   High thick boots worn by actors in the late classical period  
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Deus ex machine   classical period dramatic technique where a god is mechanically lowered to the stage  
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Dramatic poetry   verse written for the stage from the classical, Renaissance, and neoclassical periods.  
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Epic   long narrative poem popular in the Classical period  
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In media res   Epic poems from the classical period used this technique of beginning a story in the middle.  
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Hero   derived from the Greek epic tradition during the classical period  
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Irony of fate   situational irony popular during the classical period  
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masks   In Latin, personae, used in Greek classical theater, and later in the 17th and 18th centuries for the commedia dell' arte  
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Orchestra   classical period  
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Oral tradition   timeless  
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Pantomime   ancient Roman, Classical  
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Parable   Christian literature ( Classical)  
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Peripeteia   A reversal of fortune, Greek classical period  
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Satyr play   Greek comic play  
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Skene   Classical Greek temporary wooden stage building where actors changed costumes.  
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Commedia dell'arte   mid-16th century medieval form of comic drama which relies on stock characters.  
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Picture frame stage   16th century medieval playhouses designed to give the illusion of three-dimensional perspective.  
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Proscenium arch   tradition from 16th century where the auditorium is seperated from the raised stage by an archtectural frame in front of the scenery.  
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Romance   Medieval chivalric presentations in prose and verse. Modern 19th century adventurous novels.  
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Troubadours   minstrels of the late Middle ages who sang lyric poems of chivalry and love.  
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Villanelle   Poetry from the Middle Ages that consists of six rhymed stanzas in which two lines are repeated in a precribed pattern.  
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Double plot   also called a subplot familiar in Elizabethan drama (Renaissance)  
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Dumb show   Renaissance mimed dramatic performance.  
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Madrigal   short secular song that originated in 14th century and was popular during the Renaissance.  
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Sonnet   fixed form of 14 lines, usually about love, popular during the Renaissance  
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Nouvelle   french term for novella, Renaissance  
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Tragicomedy   drama that combines tragedy and comedy, Renaissance  
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Unities   the three formal qualities recommended by Italian Renassance literary critics to unify a plot (action, time and place)  
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Comedy of manners   a realistic form of comic drama that flourished in the 17th century (Restoration)  
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Restoration period   17th and 18th centuries/1660-1798  
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Classical period   ancient Greek and Roman-1066  
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Medieval period   9th-15th century /1066-1485  
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Renassaince period (Elizabethan)   1485-1660, late 15th-17th century  
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Closet drama   a dramatic poem or play designed to be read aloud instead of performed, Restoration  
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Gothic fiction   a genre tha creates terror and suspence, Restoration  
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Box set   illusion of scenic realism, Romantic & Victorian early 19th century  
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Burlesque   a broad caricature, parody, travesty, or take off of plays, opera, or current events. 19th century  
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Naturalism   an extreme form of realism, 19th century  
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Realism   attempts to represent life truthfully, usually about the middle class, 19th century  
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Symbolist movement   movement to make literature resemble music, 19th century  
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Arena theater   non traditional performance space that favors no one portion of the audience. 20th century  
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Modern period   20th century-present  
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Concrete poetry   visual poetry where the picture image is made of the words of the poem. 20th century Modern  
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Confessional poetry   autobiograhy focused poetry, 20th century  
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Cultural studies   field of study focusing on the social power encoded in texts. 20th century  
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Expressionism   a dramatic style that focuses on the dreamlike subjective realm. 20th century  
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Flexible theater   also called black box, seats and set up are moveable. 20th century  
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Metafiction   fiction that constantly explores its own nature as literary creation, 20th century  
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New Formalism   20th century movement where poets went back to rhyme, meter, and narrative.  
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New Naturalism   20th century plays frankly depictiong the internal and external forces shaping lives.  
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Surrealism   Modernist movement that tries to organize art according to the irrational dictates of the unconciuos mind.  
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Theater of the Absurd   post WWII European genre depictiong the grotesquely comic plight of human beings thrown by accident into the world.  
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Romanticism   18th-19th century, 1798-1832  
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Victorian period   19th-20th century, 1832-1900  
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