Chapter Seven

Which of the following names are acceptable for this period?

• Elizabethan period

• early modern England

• English Renaissance

• all of the above

• none of the above

The “university wits” included

• William Shakespeare and Thomas Norton

• Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd

• Ben Jonson and John Fletcher

• all of the above

• none of the above

Which theatrical production element(s) used in English Renaissance drama allowed for fluid transfer of settings and times in the plays

• the neutral platform stage

• new audience configurations

• the proscenium

• all of the above

• none of the above

Which of the following aspects made Shakespeare’s plays successful and enduring?

• exemplary episodic plots

• extraordinary verse and language

• well-rounded characters

• all of the above

• none of the above

Theatre researchers consult primary sources, which are

• materials that survive from the period

• the first materials.

• materials that have no controversy surrounding them

• all of the above

• none of the above

The primary sources researchers have about Elizabethan playhouses suggest

• the dimensions of the typical stage

• how tiring houses were used

• that there was not one, homogenous model of playhouse.

• all of the above

• none of the above

Researchers analyze Elizabethan playhouses by

• considering how scenes in Shakespeare plays would have been staged

• looking at theatre excavations, drawings, and contracts

• considering lines in plays that seem to address the space

• all of the above

• none of the above

Elizabethan drama changed locale between scenes by

• using elaborate scene changes

• using perspective-painting backdrops

• using “spoken décor

• all of the above

• none of the above

Elizabethan theatre companies were organized under a sharing plan, which included

• shareholders, hirelings, and apprentices

• actors, directors, and playwrights

• patrons and press owners

• all of the above

• none of the above

Feminist analysis of cross-dressing onstage in the era concludes that

• representation of females by males reinforced stereotypes of women

• cross-dressing allowed women to play leading male roles

• cross-dressing helped develop women’s roles

• all of the above

• none of the above