Theatre History

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Across
  1. 2. included allegories
  2. 7. performed by slaves solo dance w/music; used masks
  3. 8. pagan and folklore elements
  4. 11. began in Italy; more realistic then religious works of the past
  5. 13. seating for audience
  6. 14. young lovers
  7. 15. stationary cycles of movable cycles
  8. 17. Greek like
  9. 18. upper class; middle aged old man
  10. 21. character thats displays same character traits in different productions
  11. 23. only surviving trilogy the Oresteia
  12. 25. written by clergy and overseen by the church
  13. 27. servers
  14. 28. uppper class; arch rival of best friend of Pantalone; master of double talk
Down
  1. 1. short bits of comic action
  2. 3. where the chorus sang
  3. 4. short religious plays
  4. 5. platform on wheels, pulled by men
  5. 6. tragic playwright whose plays survived
  6. 9. all performed in cycles
  7. 10. greatest Greek playwright;wrote Oedipus Rex
  8. 11. a group of performers who wore masks
  9. 12. created more complex plots
  10. 16. saints plays
  11. 19. set up in rows side by side; each represented location
  12. 20. part of stage behind where actors perform
  13. 22. clever and wise cracking clown
  14. 24. working class; boastful and cowardly
  15. 26. best known for his Farce