Theatre History Deck 3

allegory

• a play in which sarcasm, irony, and ridicule are used to expose or attack folly or pretension in society

• originally created by a Spanish playwright

• a dramatic work in which there is a one-to-one correspondence between the literal meaning and the underlying (allegorical) meaning of the work

• a dramatic work in which there is a one-to-one correspondence between the literal meaning and the underlying (allegorical) meaning of the work

bard

• a play in which sarcasm, irony, and ridicule are used to expose or attack folly or pretension in society

• a person who composed and recited heroic or epic poems

• a group of performers who sing, dance, or recite in unison; in Greek drama, the chorus was the group of performers who sang and danced between episodes, narrated off-stage action, and commented on events

• formally, the drama of ancient Greece and Rome (800 BCE-400 AD); plays of the classical period instruct and perfect humans and present the universal ideal of beauty through logic, order, reason, and moderation. Tragedy was born during this period; the Greek Sophocles is one playwright of the period.

classic

• a play in which sarcasm, irony, and ridicule are used to expose or attack folly or pretension in society

• a person who composed and recited heroic or epic poems

• a group of performers who sing, dance, or recite in unison; in Greek drama, the chorus was the group of performers who sang and danced between episodes, narrated off-stage action, and commented on events

• formally, the drama of ancient Greece and Rome (800 BCE-400 AD); plays of the classical period instruct and perfect humans and present the universal ideal of beauty through logic, order, reason, and moderation. Tragedy was born during this period; the Greek Sophocles is one playwright of the period.popularly, any play written before the present century that has too the test of time

medieval drama

• European drama that developed from religious ceremony in the period from 800 to 1400 AD, and instructed in Christian faith, appealed to emotions and stressed the importance of religion

• a person who composed and recited heroic or epic poems

• a group of performers who sing, dance, or recite in unison; in Greek drama, the chorus was the group of performers who sang and danced between episodes, narrated off-stage action, and commented on events

• formally, the drama of ancient Greece and Rome (800 BCE-400 AD); plays of the classical period instruct and perfect humans and present the universal ideal of beauty through logic, order, reason, and moderation. Tragedy was born during this period; the Greek Sophocles is one playwright of the period.popularly, any play written before the present century that has too the test of time

morality play

• European drama that developed from religious ceremony in the period from 800 to 1400 AD, and instructed in Christian faith, appealed to emotions and stressed the importance of religion

• a person who composed and recited heroic or epic poems

• developed in medieval England; an allegorical drama, such as Everyman, in which vices and virtues are personified in the battle for the protagonist's soul

• formally, the drama of ancient Greece and Rome (800 BCE-400 AD); plays of the classical period instruct and perfect humans and present the universal ideal of beauty through logic, order, reason, and moderation. Tragedy was born during this period; the Greek Sophocles is one playwright of the period.popularly, any play written before the present century that has too the test of time

Plautus

• European drama that developed from religious ceremony in the period from 800 to 1400 AD, and instructed in Christian faith, appealed to emotions and stressed the importance of religion

• a person who composed and recited heroic or epic poems

• developed in medieval England; an allegorical drama, such as Everyman, in which vices and virtues are personified in the battle for the protagonist's soul

• great Roman comic dramatist, whose works, loosely adapted from Greek plays, established a truly Roman drama in the Latin language

Terence

• Roman playwright; authored six verse comedies that were long regarded as models of pure Latin

• a person who composed and recited heroic or epic poems

• developed in medieval England; an allegorical drama, such as Everyman, in which vices and virtues are personified in the battle for the protagonist's soul

• great Roman comic dramatist, whose works, loosely adapted from Greek plays, established a truly Roman drama in the Latin language

commedia dell'arte

• Roman playwright; authored six verse comedies that were long regarded as models of pure Latin

• popular theatre during the Italian renaissance; basically improvisational

• developed in medieval England; an allegorical drama, such as Everyman, in which vices and virtues are personified in the battle for the protagonist's soul

• great Roman comic dramatist, whose works, loosely adapted from Greek plays, established a truly Roman drama in the Latin language

Stock Character

• Roman playwright; authored six verse comedies that were long regarded as models of pure Latin

• popular theatre during the Italian renaissance; basically improvisational

• developed in medieval England; an allegorical drama, such as Everyman, in which vices and virtues are personified in the battle for the protagonist's soul

• easily recognizable character

Don Juan

• Roman playwright; authored six verse comedies that were long regarded as models of pure Latin

• popular theatre during the Italian renaissance; basically improvisational

• originally created by a Spanish playwright

• easily recognizable character