Shakespeare Acting Review 1

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  1. 4. Black Flags represented this style of Shakespearean play
  2. 5. Would have paid a penny to stand and watch the play
  3. 6. Although Shakespeare’s plays often changed location, the actual production had very little ________
  4. 11. These were not permitted to be actors in Elizabethan England
  5. 13. One character speaking to something or someone IN the world of the play
  6. 16. a play written by Shakespeare RIVAL, about a man who sells his soul to the devil
  7. 17. The most famous acting troupe of Elizabethan England, of which Shakespeare was a member
  8. 19. Shakespeare, like Yoda, flip-flopped the ________ and ________ making his writing difficult to follow at times (all one word answer)
  9. 20. Shakespeare used his specific meter partly because it follows the natural rhythm of the human _________
  10. 21. Another style of Shakespearean play (white Flag)
  11. 22. Another style of play Shakespeare wrote were _____________ (red flag)
  12. 23. One character speaking to something or someone outside the world of the play, such as the audience
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  1. 1. Shakespeare wrote these types of poems
  2. 2. This position was similar to our modern day censor
  3. 3. a contemporary rival who was killed in a bar fight
  4. 7. Each line of Shakespeare’s meter would have ______ _________ (All one word for answer)
  5. 8. Shakespeare used almost none of these in his writing, instead incorporating them into his dialogue, often indicated location or action of a scene
  6. 9. Shakespeare’s poetic meter had a repeating pattern of an ___________ syllable and a stressed syllable
  7. 10. She was Queen during Shakespeare’s lifetime, an avid theater supporter, and ruled for 45 years
  8. 12. ___________ pentameter the type of meter Shakespeare wrote in
  9. 14. Going to the theater in Elizabethan England would be an all day and ________ event
  10. 15. The theater Shakespeare’s plays were presented in was called The _________
  11. 18. These individuals would have had covered seats at the theater