History of Theater Questions
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63. Corneille was BETTER or WORSE at following neoclassical rules than Racine.
60. Who was the "foremost masque maker?" (17)
51. Early performances of Shakespeare's plays utilized a lot of props. TRUE or FALSE?
59. TRUE or FALSE, Even though Hamlet kills many people, he never becomes a villain in the audience's eyes.
54. Heroines in Shakespeare's comedies find ways to BLANK their terrible situations.
68. Moliere "believed that the duty of comedy was to hold a mirror up to BLANK ."(21)
67. Moliere was born in BLANK and received a good education. His first job was at court as the "Keeper of the King's carpets and upholstered furniture."
49. Actors specialized in a "type" of character. TRUE or FALSE?
69. Melodrama started "in a period between BLANK
64. The action Le Cid takes place over the course of BLANK.(20)
62. What is Racine's most famous play?
43. Why weren't early English Renaissance plays performed in theaters?
53. A Shakespearean comedy is a play that's not based on a recent historical figure, and that ends BLANK
56. Shakespeare's comedies also include plays we now call the problem plays and the BLANK. (16)
65. In early French theaters the plays were usually "medieval farces, classical adaptations, and foreign plays, plus a handful of new French BLANK
55. Shakespeare's female characters are known for permanently breaking social norms and expectations for women. TRUE or FALSE?
50. In Shakespeare's time, when were plays performed?
47. Why did the theaters in London close?
61. Racine wrote in a metrical line called an alexandrie, a 12-syllable line of BLANK
35. BLANK plays are an ambitious genre of medieval drama that depicts the whole history of the Christian universe, starting with the creation of the world and ending with the death and resurrection of Christ.