Exam 15: Then and Now Version the Renaissance

Which of the following Elizabethan playwrights wrote an infamous play based on the life of Faust?

Which type of theatre started during the Restoration and had themes about sexual gratification and bedroom escapades?

The 800 or so people who stood during performances at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre were called…

The book refers to ____ as the "comeback kid" of the early Renaissance. Who are they referring to?

Commedia dell'arte, though popular throughout all of Europe, has its roots in _____.

Mary Frith was charged by an ecclesiastical authority for acting on stage-what was so unusual about her performance?

The terms "upstage" and "downstage" come from what period and country?

One of the most popular characters in the commedia dell'arte is the servant to Pantalone whose costume has multicolored lozenges. Who is he?

In Shakespeare's day acting companies were often accused of being vagabonds.

What type of play often had background music playing, just as modern movies frequently do?

During the Renaissance some scholars idolized the Romans and Greeks; they rejected the traditional curriculum of theology and instead studied the classical subjects. These scholars were called?

What happened to the actors who staged the first play in what would later become the United States?

_____ is the leading man in the commedia dell'arte.

The scenery of Elizabethan theatre was minimal and so the actors described the locations using what?

The Humanist Scholars of the Renaissance advocated for a style of acting that they thought mimicked that of the Greeks. This style of acting is called _____.

Which type of theatre only took place at court and was written especially for the monarch and an invited audience?

_____ is regarded as the greatest of all Spanish playwrights. He claimed to have written over 2,200 plays with his most popular one being The Sheep Well.

The first important architect of the Italian Renaissance, credited with inventing perspective painting, is _____.

Which writers wanted to go beyond reason, to transcend the realm of emotion where experience cannot be rationally explained?

During the Renaissance the theatre turned to Aristotle for laws regarding dramatic structure. Scholars came up with three unbreakable rules, which they called the Unities-a form of "classical correctness." Which of the following is NOT one of the unities?