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In classical Greek Old Comedy, a scene with a debate between the two opposing forces in a play.

Large oval, circular, or semicircular outdoor theater with rising tiers of seats around an open playing area; also, an exceptionally large indoor auditorium.

Young performer training in an Elizabethan acting company.

Eighteenth-century English form which burlesqued opera.

Small private compartment for a group of spectators built into the walls of a traditional proscenium-arch theater.

Interior setting using flats to form the back and side walls and often the ceiling of a room.

Japanese puppet theater.

Gallery above the tavern in the back wall of the theaters of the Spanish golden age; the area where unescorted women sat.

Wealthy person who financed a playwright's works at an ancient Greek dramatic festival.

• In ancient Greek drama, a group
• of performers who sang and danced, sometimes participating in the action but
• usually simply commenting on it. In modern times, performers in a musical play
• who sing and dance as a group.

The most important Greek festival in honor of the god Dionysus and the first to include drama.

Full-length (three-act) nonreligious play of the Spanish golden age.

Acting troupes in the Spanish golden age, organized according to a sharing system

Form of comic drama that became popular in seventeenth-century France and the English Restoration, emphasizing a cultivated or sophisticated atmosphere and witty dialogue.

Theater of the Spanish golden age, usually located in the courtyard of a series of adjoining buildings.

Leader of a Roman acting troupe.

Eighteenth-century French term usually denoting a serious drama that dealt with middle-class _characters.

Imparting of information necessary for an understanding of the story but not covered by the action onstage; events or knowledge from the past, or occurring outside the play, which must be introduced for the audience to understand the characters or plot.

In traditional proscenium-arch theaters, the undivided seating area cut into the walls of the building

Richard Wagner's theory of a unified work of theatrical art.

System in which tracks on the stage floor and above the stage allowed for the smooth movement of flat wings on and off the stage; usually there were a series of grooves at each stage position.

In kabuki theater, a bridge running from behind the audience (toward the left side of the audience) to the stage. Performers can enter on the hanamichi; important scenes may also be played on it.

Small props carried on- or offstage by actors and actresses during a performance. See Props.

Bridge in n¯o theater on which the performers make their entrance from the dressing area to the platform stage.

Serious but basically optimistic drama, written in verse or elevated prose, with noble or heroic characters in extreme situations or unusual adventures.

Member of an Elizabethan acting troupe who was paid a set salary and was not a shareholder.

Form of popular Japanese theater combining music, dance, and dramatic scenes.

Traditional dance-drama of India.

Comic pieces of business used repeatedly by characters in Italian commedia dell'arte.

Early medieval drama, written in Latin and dealing with biblical stories.

Individual scenic units used for the staging of religious dramas in the Middle Ages.

Lavish and spectacular form of private theater in Renaissance Italy and the courts of France and England.

Dramatic form made popular in the nineteenth century which emphasized action and spectacular effects and also used music; it had stock characters and clearly defined villains and heroes.

Medieval drama designed to teach a lesson. The characters were often allegorical and represented virtues or faults.

Also called cycle plays. Short dramas of the Middle Ages based on events of the Old and New Testaments and often organized into historical cycles.

Rules developed by critics of the Italian Renaissance, supposedly based on the writings of Aristotle.

Hellenistic Greek and Roman comedies which deal with romantic and domestic situations.

("o" is special character with straight line over it)      Rigidly traditional form of Japanese drama combining music, dance, and lyrics.

Classical Greek comedy which pokes fun at social, political, or cultural conditions and at particular figures.

Ground-floor seating in an auditorium; also, a circular playing space in ancient Greek theaters.

During the middle ages, one who supervised the mounting of mystery plays.

Originally a Roman entertainment in which a narrative was sung by a chorus while the story was acted out by dancers. Now used loosely to cover any form of presentation which relies on dance, gesture, and physical movement without dialogue or speech.

Scene in classical Greek Old Comedy in which the chorus directly addresses the audience members and makes fun of them.

In classical Greek drama, the scene in which the chorus enters. Also, the entranceway for the chorus in Greek theater.

In the theater of the Spanish golden age, the pit area for the audience.

Illusion of depth in painting, introduced into scene design during the Italian Renaissance.

Floor of the house in a traditional proscenium-arch theater. It was originally a standing area; by the end of the eighteenth century, backless benches were added.

Elevated stage with no proscenium

As distinct from story, the patterned arrangement in a drama of events and characters, with incidents selected and arranged for maximum dramatic impact. Also, in Elizabethan theaters, an outline of the play which was posted backstage for the actors.

Giacomo Torelli's mechanized means of changing sets made up of flat wings.

Indoor theaters in Elizabethan England.

Continental European term for a theater director; it often denotes a dictatorial director.

Acting company which at any given time can perform a number of plays alternately; also, the plays regularly performed by a company.

Movement of the nineteenth century which sought to free the artist from rules and considered unfettered inspiration the source of all creativity.

One of the three types of classical Greek drama, usually a ribald takeoff on Greek myth-ology and history that included a chorus of satyrs, mythological creatures who were half-man and half-goat.

Stagehouse in a Roman theater.

In Elizabethan acting troupes, members who received part of the profits as payment.

Script containing only a single performer's lines and cues. _Elizabethan actors learned their roles from sides.

A play performed widely in Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia involving intricately carved flat leather puppets that create pattens of light and shadow when their image is projected on a screen

Type of comedy or comic business which relies on ridiculous physical activity-often violent in nature-for its humor.

Speech in which a character who is alone onstage speaks inner thoughts.

Antineoclassical eighteenth-century German movement which was a forerunner of romanticism; in German, Sturm und Drang.

Where the audience sat in an ancient Greek theatre

Elizabethan stage house.

In classical Greece, three tragedies written by the same playwright and presented on a single day; they were connected by a story or thematic concerns.

Drama from the Middle Ages performed in the everyday speech of the people and presented in town squares or other parts of cities

Term referring to the preference that a play occur within one day (unity of time), in one place (unity of place), and with no action irrelevant to the plot (unity of action).

Low platform mounted on wheels or casters by means of which scenery is moved on- and offstage.

Dramatic form popular in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries which combined apparent plausibility of incident and surface realism with a tightly constructed plot.

Pit, or standing area, in _Elizabethan public theaters.

Comic male servants in Italian commedia dell'arte.

• Medieval
• theatre

Greek Theatre

Roman theatre

Greek Theatre

Greek Roman and Medieval theatre

Medieval theatre

Greek Theatre

Greek and Roman theatre

Roman theatre

Bunraku

Sanskrit

Chinese

No, Bunraku, and Chinese

Chinese

No

Sanskrit

Sanskrit

Kabuki

Spanish Golden Age

• Italian
• renaissance

• Italian
• renaissance

• Italian
• renaissance

• English
• renaissance

• Spanish
• Golden Age

• Neoclassical
• France

• Spanish
• Golden Age

Italian renaissance

• Neoclassical
• France

• bourgeois
• tragedy or domestic tragedy

• ballad
• opera

comedy of manners

• sentimental
• comedy

bourgeois tragedy or domestic tragedy

Romanticism

Romanticism

well-made play

well-made play

melodrama