Theatre History

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Across
  1. 2. What are the people who stand at Shakespeare plays called?
  2. 3. What Realist playwrights did to dramatic conventions to create more realistic plays
  3. 6. Commedia dell’arte stock character who brags about his military achievements
  4. 8. Language Medieval plays were performed in
  5. 11. What is the place in the middle of the orchestra called?
  6. 14. Renaissance characters involving masks
  7. 16. Stage where audience completely surrounds the performance space
  8. 17. How many complete remaining play cycles remain?
  9. 18. The structure directly behind the Greek stage
Down
  1. 1. Most popular pre-Renaissance form of British theater
  2. 4. What is the name of Shakespeare’s theater?
  3. 5. Term for aisles running from stage through audience
  4. 7. Most famous english playwright
  5. 9. What type of theater is built into the hills?
  6. 10. Author of Lysistrata
  7. 12. Greek word for “seeing places”
  8. 13. Now and the future theater
  9. 15. Circular playing space on which actors perform
  10. 16. Playwright of the Theatre of Cruelty