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Lit Hist/Periods

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show Roman literature AND 18th century neoclassical  
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show High thick boots worn by actors in the late classical period  
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show classical period dramatic technique where a god is mechanically lowered to the stage  
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show verse written for the stage from the classical, Renaissance, and neoclassical periods.  
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Epic   show
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In media res   show
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show derived from the Greek epic tradition during the classical period  
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Irony of fate   show
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show 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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show classical period  
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show timeless  
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Pantomime   show
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Parable   show
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Peripeteia   show
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Satyr play   show
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show Classical Greek temporary wooden stage building where actors changed costumes.  
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show mid-16th century medieval form of comic drama which relies on stock characters.  
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show 16th century medieval playhouses designed to give the illusion of three-dimensional perspective.  
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Proscenium arch   show
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show Medieval chivalric presentations in prose and verse. Modern 19th century adventurous novels.  
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show minstrels of the late Middle ages who sang lyric poems of chivalry and love.  
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show 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   show
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show Renaissance mimed dramatic performance.  
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Madrigal   show
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show fixed form of 14 lines, usually about love, popular during the Renaissance  
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show french term for novella, Renaissance  
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Tragicomedy   show
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show the three formal qualities recommended by Italian Renassance literary critics to unify a plot (action, time and place)  
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show a realistic form of comic drama that flourished in the 17th century (Restoration)  
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Restoration period   show
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Classical period   show
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Medieval period   show
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Renassaince period (Elizabethan)   show
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show a dramatic poem or play designed to be read aloud instead of performed, Restoration  
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Gothic fiction   show
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Box set   show
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Burlesque   show
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show an extreme form of realism, 19th century  
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Realism   show
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show movement to make literature resemble music, 19th century  
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show non traditional performance space that favors no one portion of the audience. 20th century  
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show 20th century-present  
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show visual poetry where the picture image is made of the words of the poem. 20th century Modern  
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Confessional poetry   show
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show field of study focusing on the social power encoded in texts. 20th century  
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Expressionism   show
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Flexible theater   show
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Metafiction   show
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New Formalism   show
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show 20th century plays frankly depictiong the internal and external forces shaping lives.  
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show Modernist movement that tries to organize art according to the irrational dictates of the unconciuos mind.  
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show post WWII European genre depictiong the grotesquely comic plight of human beings thrown by accident into the world.  
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Romanticism   show
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Victorian period   show
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