What is Theater? Crash Course 1

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Who is the Greek god of Theater?

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Dionysus

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What does the word "theater" mean in Ancient Greek?

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The Seeing Place

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To be a "theater" a theater must have....

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nothing and anything

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A familiar definition of theater is that it has one actor and one audience.

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it is a form of performance involving a single performer and an audience.

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What is a shibboleth?

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a peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons.

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Which is the more common spelling outside the United States? Options: theater, theatre

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theatre

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Which word means "mediating between the natural and the supernatural, serving to enact or re-enact significant events in the natural or supernatural world?"

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ritual

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Which of these famous men help contribute to the beginning understanding of ritual theater?
James Blunt, James Cromwell, James Frazer, James Franco

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James Frazer

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Which word means that the idea involves a distinctly European idea of the world instead of a more worldly view of other cultures?

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euro-centric

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The idea that everything is just going to get better and better all the time is?

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positivism