WorksheetsTheatre Arts Midterm Review
Total questions: 7
Worksheet time: 4mins
Who is considered the "Master of Comedy" in American theatre?
William Wycherly
William Congreve
Thomas Killigrew
George Farquhar
What was the two purposes of the Greek Masks?
For actors to look attractive to the audience
For actors to feel more comfortable to act because then the audience wouldn't know who they were
For one actor to be able to play several roles in one show
They allowed men to play women's roles
True or False, Egyptian performance used realistic battles and high ceremony to reenact their recorded three-day performance by l-Kher-Wofret of Abydos?
True
False
True or false, the idea of stock characters influenced what we would refer to as type casting?
True
False
What was the most famous contribution of the Italian Renaissance?
Stage Development
Commedia dell' arte
Masks
Pantomime
What stock characters provided the main plot in Renaissance theatre?
The Heroine's maidservants
The Heroine's father and mother
ll Capitano
The young lovers
ll Capitano is who in the Renaissance stock characters?
The Heroine's lover
The Heroine's maidservant
The Heroine's father
The Braggart soldier
