History of Greek Theatre - Jayden
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- 5. Greek choruses could express the point of view of this individual
- 8. Theatre in the western world can be traced back to
- 10. Greek city which had huge cultural advances in the 5th century
- 12. Who is the leading winner of the best playwright contest?
- 14. Masks allowed male actors to play these characters, vice versa
- 16. How many plays did Sophocles write?
- 18. Considered the "father" of Western philosophy
- 20. How many of Sophocles' plays survived?
- 21. The arrangement of events in a play
- 23. Greek choruses brought color, movement, and this to a play.
- 24. The major festival was called
- 27. Sophocles increased the number of actors in plays to this number.
- 28. Facilitated rapid change of roles
- 31. By the 5th century,Athens had this many festivals a year to honor Dionysus
- 32. The greek word chorus means this in English
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- 1. The high-backed seats were reserved for
- 2. When was the first recorded Greek theatrical tragedy contest?
- 3. Choruses consisted of these many people after Sophocles
- 4. Who wrote epic poems that influenced Greek Drama?
- 5. Theatre Dionysus was on the slope of the hill below this place
- 6. Religious and legal rules only allowed characters from plays to "die" here
- 7. Greek plays usually took place
- 9. Defined the word tragedy in his work "poetics"
- 11. How many roles was a single actor capable of playing?
- 13. Greek choruses would only dance, but they would
- 15. All performers wore masks, with these people as the exception
- 17. Greeks believed he was a god and presented drama at festivals to honor him
- 19. Who won the first Greek tragedy contest?
- 22. How speech reveals character
- 25. The word theatre comes from this greek word
- 26. Greek word which evolved into the English word "scene"
- 29. A creature in classical mythology who was part man and goat and famous for being drunk and sexual
- 30. Greek choruses helped establish this in a drama