Primitive, Greek, and Roman Theatre Review

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Across
  1. 1. This city was the site of the first recorded theatrical performance
  2. 5. Aeschylus was famous for his parodies of his rival playwrights, philosophers, and statesmen, as well as for making a mockery of the _________ democracy
  3. 7. Theatre in this civilization was bawdy and decadent
  4. 9. Earliest known author of Greek tragedy
  5. 14. This writer of Roman comedy was an African slave owned by a Roman senator
  6. 16. This Greek playwright was the least popular during his lifetime
  7. 18. The Great Panathenaic Festival was held in honor of
  8. 20. These were used to distinguish one character from the other, which made it easier for one actor to play several roles.
  9. 22. This is where the audience sat in a Greek theatre
  10. 24. The area where the chorus performed on a Greek stage
  11. 26. Aeschylus is the father of _______
  12. 28. This playwright won the playwriting competition at the Festival Dionysia 18 times
  13. 31. This is the only writer of Old Comedy who had work survive to the modern age
  14. 32. Greek theatres were made of wood and _____
  15. 34. The City Dionysia festival was in honor of
  16. 36. This building was a place for actors to change costumes and masks
  17. 39. to enter a playwriting competition, a playwright had to submit _____ tragedies and one satyr
  18. 40. Some think theatre began with the reenactment of this
  19. 41. This was a crane-like device to lower actors to the stage
  20. 42. was told by the Delphic oracle that he would kill his father and marry his mother.
Down
  1. 2. This person oversaw rituals
  2. 3. A group of performers who danced and sang at intervals throughout the play,
  3. 4. All Greek actors were ___
  4. 6. The subject matter of these Roman plays dealt mostly with mythological stories, although some plays were based on historical events.
  5. 8. The first recorded theatrical performance happened here in 2,500 BC
  6. 10. Greek theatres were built here, Roman theatres were built all throughout cities
  7. 11. The first Greek plays had only ____ actor and a large chorus
  8. 12. wrote The Poetics.
  9. 13. None of this writer’s plays were published during his lifetime
  10. 15. Sophocles is often compared to this English playwright
  11. 17. Aeschylus's play, The __________, dealt with the historical battle of Salamis in 480 8.c.
  12. 19. on the events of the play.
  13. 21. In Greek theatre, this person was responsible for writing, directing, composing, choreographing and sometimes acting
  14. 23. Primitive civilizations did not leave these records behind
  15. 25. Roman __________ dealt with the ridiculing of political or social issues at hand
  16. 27. This civilization was incorrectly given credit for developing theatre
  17. 29. The only surviving complete Greek Trilogy
  18. 30. This was one of the most important parts of the Greek actor's costume
  19. 33. The first drama dealt with the death and resurrection of this god
  20. 35. This writer of Roman tragedy penned plays that were intended to be read rather than performed
  21. 37. This population was never allowed to attend theatre
  22. 38. He was the first actor