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Japanese fantasy storytelling combining singing, dancing, and acting with the performers using dramatic face paint, stylized movement and wearing elaborate costumes.

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Style of performance originated in Korea then migrated to Japan, and uses intricately hinged 4 ft tall wooden puppets and their puppeteers masked in black.

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Combination of acting, dance and music in a strict form passed down from generation to generation, including myths, legends, and stock characters

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-Eugene O'Neill
-Neil Simon
-Lorraine Hansberry
-Thornton Wilder
-Tennessee Williams
-Arthur Miller

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The Hallams
The Barrymores
The Drews
The Booths

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Founded in 1809 in Philadelphia, PA, and is the oldest surviving theater in America

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term used to describe generally accepted theatre, which originated in the Restoration to distinguish between royally sanctioned and unsanctioned theatre

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Type of play satirized the behaviors of society before and during the Restoration period

(making comedy of people's manners)

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Rakes: witty w/vices
Fops: vain and superficial and try to be witty and fail

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The only playwright known to have partnered with Shakespeare (Henry VIII & The Two Noble Kinsman); Took over as chief dramatist for the King's Men after Shakespeare’s death

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Attended Westminster School but never received university education; wrote "Valpone" and "Every Man in His Humour"

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-professional rivalry with Shakespeare
-died shy of 30th birthday in tavern brawl
-wrote "Tamburlaine the Great" and "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus"

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The actor/manager who built the theatre in Shoreditch (home to the Chamberlain's/King's Men) which would eventually become the Globe Theater

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-plays
-sonnets
-narrative poems

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-Shakespeare wrote "The Merry Wives of Windsor" at her request

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-Elizabeth I
-King James II
-Earl of Southampton

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Traveling stages means level audiences which means *raked stages*

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Traveling stages means level audiences which means *raked stages*

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-Arlecchino (Harlequin)
-Columbina
-El Capitano
-Pantalone
-Innamorati

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-chiaroscuro
-proscenium arch
-rebirth
-lazzi
-burle

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Began as Satan's assistants for comic relief

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Theatre's break away from polytheism of Greek/Roman history

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-mansions
-guilds
-masque
-pageant cart

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The life of Christ

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Saints' lives

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Christian principles rather than Bible stories

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Only those fluent in Latin could be performers

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Only those fluent in Latin could be performers

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-priests
-nuns
-choir boys

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Plautus
Terrence
Seneca

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Actors were denied the same political and civil rights that were afforded to ordinary Roman citizens because of the low social status of actors.

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ARCHITECTURE
(proscenium, etc)

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Roman theatre was more:
-vulgar
-sensual
-violent

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Euripides' female protagonist was the title character who got revenge on her cheating husband by murdering their children.

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Often compared to Shakespeare as the greatest playwright of all time.

Wrote Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Electra, and Antigone.

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Gods flew using a crane-like device called a machina

deus ex machina: a plot device originating in Greek theatre in which a problem was resolved quite unexpectedly when a god would appear from nowhere and save the day.

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The word "theater" comes from the Greek word theatron. The Greek "- tron" loosely translates as "an instrument for," while "thea-" means "viewing." Thus literally, a theatron is a place or instrument for viewing purposes—i.e., a theater.

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-actors could play multiple characters
-(male) actors could play either gender

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First Greek performance began as a ritual honoring DIONYSUS

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First Greek performance began as a ritual honoring DIONYSUS

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Dionysus, the god of wine, fertility and revelry

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-stone tablet
-papyrus
-3 day performance telling the story of Osiris

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*Dance is one of the oldest humanities, dating all the way back to the Paleolithic era.