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