Hello there, I need some help for a very little THEATRE 200 (Understanding and Appreciation of Theatre) test. I would really appreciate it.

Here you have the study guide for the test (which will be available at this Thursday morning (EST time)), All the questions will be based on this study guide, so use these 2 and a half days to be fully prepared and I will provide you with the test questions on Thursday morning (which is the date in which my course professor will post them) and you will have until Friday at midnight (EST time) to finish it and pass it back to me. The test will only have 10 questions to answer.

THEA 200

FALL, 2020

Guide For Test #2

• Who was Dionysus?
• How many festivals were held each year in honor of Dionysus
• When was the City Dionysia held (what season)?
• Who was Thespis?
• Three tragic playwrights participated in the City Dionysia each year. How many tragedies did each of them write?
• How many of the Greek tragedies still survive?
• Know the following: theatron, orchestra, thymele, skene.
• Know the four types of performers in the Greek theatre.
• What was the Lenaia festival? When was it held (season)?
• How many Greek comedies survived? Who wrote them?
• What were the ludi?
• What was Livius Andronicus? What important contribution did he make to theatre in ancient Rome?
• Who are Plautus, Terence and Seneca?
• Who funded the theatre in Ancient Rome?
• What are the differences and similarities between the Greek Theatre and the Roman Theatre?
• What are the three phases of the Middle Ages?
• What is a liturgical drama? During which phase(s) of the middle ages were liturgical dramas performed? Who performed and financed liturgical dramas?
• What was the Fest of Corpus Christi?
• What is a trade guild? What is the hierarchy of a trade guild? (Owner, workers, etc.)
• What is a cycle play? Who performed and financed cycle plays?
• What is a morality play?
• What is allegory? What are allegorical characters?
• What is vernacular religious drama?
• What does secular mean?
• What is a mansion? What is a platea?
• What was the Hell Mouth?
• What was an interlude?
• Why were Elizabethan actors called “masterless men”?
• What was the name of William Shakespeare’s acting company?
• What was the name of Shakespeare’s theatre?
• How many plot lines does Hamlet have?
• What is one of the major themes in Hamlet
• What does commedia dell’ arte mean?
• What are the three categories of “stock characters” in Commedia?
• What is the essential element of commedia?
• What are the 6 principles of the neo-classical ideal?
• Who was Moliere? Name one of his plays.