HS Theater 1 Theatrical Styles Test

What is an improvised comedy featuring stock characters that began in Renaissance Italy?

• Commedia del Arte

• Morality Play

• Melodrama

• Naturalism

What is a comedy that originated in the latter 1600s in England and France which makes fun of upper-class pretentiousness and the attitudes of the wealthy?

• Comedy of Manners

• Commedia del Arte

• Romanticism

• Neoclassicism

What is the movement that began about 1910 and that has application in painting, music and literature as well as drama (the heyday of which in America was in the 1920's and 30's and was often a theatre of political and social protest)?

• Expressionism

• Method Acting

• Neoclassicism

• Melodrama

What was a popular style of play during the Medieval Theater period that was a drama that teaches right from wrong?

• Morality Play

• Legitimate Theatre

• Obstacle

• Naturalism

What was the term coined in the 19th Century to distinguish the formal five-act plays produced by licensed theatres from those performed in the unlicensed theatres that began to spring up at that time?

• Legitimate Theatre

• Realism

• Neoclassicism

• Theater of the Absurd

What term refers to any piece in which emotions are exaggerated (originally referred to popular plays in the late 18th and 19th centuries featuring incidental music)?

• Melodrama

• Comedy of Manners

• Verisimilitude

• Miracle Play

What is the term for the introspective approach to acting that aims at extreme naturalism, in which the actor seeks to identify inwardly with the character and work from this inner motivation to outward signs of character (Based on the writings and teachings of Konstantin Stanislavski)?

• Method Acting

• Legitimate Theatre

• Expressionism

• Romanticism

What are goals which must be stated in the form of a verb?

• Objectives

• Obstacle

• Melodrama

• Realism

What is anything that gets in the way of an objective?

• Obstacle

• Objectives

• Expressionism

• Comedy of Manners

What was the movement in the theatre of the late 19th Century which attempted to do away with artificiality or formalism of traditional theatre of the time?

• Naturalism

• Romanticism

• Verisimilitude

• Melodrama