Exam 15: The Renaissance

In a commedia dell'arte,_______ is the servant and acrobat who is smarter than his master.

After 1574 theatre was banned within the city limits of London because of the protests of which religious group?

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

The student thespian group the University Wits produced such famous playwrights as…

Calderon is one of Spain's most popular playwrights.His play,____,is regarded by some as the Hamlet of the Golden Age of Spanish drama.

A throwback to the Italian Renaissance ranking system,the area of the stage farthest from the audience is still considered…

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?

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

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

____________________ 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.

Drama developed very differently in Spain than it did in England during the Renaissance.How would you characterize the differences? What accounts for this difference in terms of the culture of each country?

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

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

Based on your understanding of the transition between the Middle Ages into the Renaissance,what factors do you think most encouraged the incredible quantity and quality of playwrights writing during the time of Elizabeth I and James II?

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

During the Renaissance,there was a lack of theatres in Paris,so where were plays often performed?

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

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

During the Renaissance,the Italians invented what type of scene painting?

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