Playwright Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Director correct answers The person who rehearses and coordinates performers to ensure that they interpret the text appropriately Global correct answers Having to do with any activity--political, economic, artistic, cultural--in which nations and people around the world relate and interact Multiethnic/multicultural correct answers Referring to any nation, community, or group, in which people of various ethnic or cultural origins or beliefs coexist and interact Performing arts correct an...

(T/F): To show the corpses in a Greek play, the "eccyclema" was lowered from the roof of the "skene". - Answer-False Most of the attendees to the festival of plays were _____ and _____. - Answer-Men and boys At the theatre of Dionysus, what was the thymele? - Answer-An altar dedicated to Dionysus What term that we use today for contrived endings came about because of the overuse of gods to resolve difficult dramatic situations? - Answer-Deus ex machina Similar to a modern parade float,...

Upton Sinclair - ️️American novelist, journalist and essayist; "The Jungle" - attacked and exposed abuses in the Chicago meat packing industry - instrumental in forcing the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act; "King Coal", "Boston"; A "muckracker" Muckracker - ️️A socially minded band of writers who decried and attacked perceived immoral conduct in business and government Johan Strindberg - ️️Swedish novelist, playwright, essayist and short-fiction writer; "The Red R...

realism,selective realism , experimental theatre - ANS post war movements post war realism in USA - ANS dominant style, golden age of american realism, focus on "regular people" and their tragedies. Arthur miller - ANS period playwright of post war realism, born in harlem, influenced by ibsen, plays usually have themes of guilt, failure and personal responsibility. His best known play was Death of a Salesman

Who was the Belgian playwright that began the Symbolist movement? A. Maeterlinck B. Oskar Kokoschka C. Alexander Tairov D. William Somerset Maugham - ANS Maeterlinck Which form of theatre had been first used among painters and was associated with moral and intellectual decadence that condoned inequalities of wealth, archaic social orders, and mechanization of human skills? - ANS Expressionism

THEA Chapter 2 Latest Update with Verified Solutions Antagonist - Bad guy - Opposer of the action Aristotle defines Tragedy - Wrote "Poetics" - Ancient Greek Time Aristotle Rules of Tragedy - Protagonist - Antagonist - Protagonist must have a reversal of fortune - Catharsis - Denouement Aristotles 6 components of a play 1. Plot 2. Characters 3. Theme 4. Diction 5. Music 6. Spectacle 7. Convention Catharsis - audience purge of emotions - Glad it didn't happ...

William Shakespeare Poet and playwright of the Renaissance period in Western culture. Plays, comedies, tragedies, tragicomedies and historical plays. William Faulkner Author of Southern literature in America based on his experience living in Mississippi during the early 20th century. Geoffrey Chaucer Medieval poet "Father of English Literature" The Canterbury Tales" portrayed life during the Middle Ages. Parlement of Foules-poem - dream vision poems Drama a piece of writing that te...

Cuban poet, lived in Mexico, Writes about beauty of indigenous ruins - José Maria Heredia true father of contemporary poetry wrote "good book of love" Castillian Chaucer - Juan Ruiz Archpriest of Hita circle of Spanish poets wanted to work with advant garde art & poetry - Generación de '27 changes after Franco rule in Spain changes in every day life - La Movida 1970's Spain part of Generacion de '27 Spanish poet & playwright symbolism, futurism, surrealism - Federico Garcia Lorc...

Which of the following plays is a comedy that provides a reflection of gender roles in sixteenth century England? correct answers The Taming of the Shrew Sophocles' play Oedipus the King is a good example of theatre meant strictly as entertainment. correct answers False Most historians believe that Western theatre had its beginnings in religious ritual associated with the Greek god Zeus. correct answers False Which of the following is true about nonprofit theatres? correct answers Any ...

Upton Sinclair - ANSWER-American novelist, journalist and essayist; "The Jungle" - attacked and exposed abuses in the Chicago meat packing industry - instrumental in forcing the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act; "King Coal", "Boston"; A "muckracker" Muckracker - ANSWER-A socially minded band of writers who decried and attacked perceived immoral conduct in business and government Johan Strindberg - ANSWER-Swedish novelist, playwright, essayist and short-fiction writer; "The Re...