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- 5. Who is a famous playwright of the Renaissance?
- 7. What is the side entrance for the chorus in Greek theater?
- 9. Which civilization’s theater featured gladiator fights and public executions?
- 11. What type of play involves serious events and often ends unhappily?
- 13. What were the dramatic performances with music, dance, and masks called during the Renaissance?
- 14. What is the viewing place on the slope of a hill?
- 16. What were medieval traveling performers called?
- 19. Which play by Euripides is considered an adventurous comedy?
- 20. What are the characters in satyr plays that are part man, part goat?
- 23. What is the large circular area at the center part of the theatre in Greek theater called?
- 25. Always ____ to learn something useful
- 28. Who said "Experience travel-these are as education in themselves"?
- 29. Who writes scripts for theater performances?
- 31. What is the backdrop or stage building in ancient Greek theater?
- 32. Who performs on stage in a play?
- 35. Who was the Greek playwrighter that wrote most of the comedy plays?
- 37. Gorboduc was also titled _____ and Porrex
- 39. What type of Greek play includes comic elements and features half-goat, half-man creatures?
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- 1. Shakespeare's four greatest works of tragedies are Hamlet, Othello, _____ , and King Lear.
- 2. What word means "place of seeing"?
- 3. What medieval religious play depicted the story of Adam and Eve’s fall?
- 4. Who built the first permanent theater in Rome?
- 6. What era of theater revived Greek and Roman styles?
- 8. Gorboduc was written by ______ Norton and _____ Sackville.
- 10. Theatre began from ____ , ritual, and ceremony
- 12. What is the name of the first known English tragedy play?
- 15. This is a humorous tale about a strong woman who led a female coalition to end war in Greece.
- 17. _________these are as education in memselves
- 18. A renowned writer of tragedies in ancient Greece
- 21. Who is the father of tragedy?
- 22. Who was a prominent supporter of theatre?
- 24. Who said "Memory is the mother of all wisdom" ?
- 26. Which theatre influenced Roman theater?
- 27. What was William Shakespeare called?
- 30. What is the Italian comedy performed by professional troupes called?
- 33. Who is responsible for guiding the actors in a play?
- 34. What type of play is humorous and lighthearted?
- 36. Memory is the ______ of all
- 38. A compound of two Greek words, "_____" or "goat" and "ode," meaning song
- 40. Minstrels were seen as dangerous and _____
