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WorksheetsMedieval Theatre and the Renaissance
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 10mins
Church services were held in Latin, and everyone could understand.
True
False
The church felt drama was barbaric and evil during the early medieval period.
True
False
A Renaissance Form of Theatre focused on simple characters with masks.
Morality Plays
Cycle Plays
Commedia Dell'Arte
Elizabethan Theatre
A medieval style of theatre that taught Morals and Lessons through a contemporary lens.
Morality Plays
Cycle Plays
Commedia Dell'Arte
Elizabethan Theatre
A Character that thinks they know everything, but really understands nothing.
Harlequin
The Doctor
Magnifico
Pantalone
An old, miserly character. Cares only about money.
Harlequin
The Doctor
Magnifico
Pantalone
The word for a low-class person who paid only a penny to see an Elizabethan Play.
Penny Dreadfuls
Groundlings
Mud Toilers
Elizabeth I
What does the French term, Renaissance, mean in English?
Repeat
Rebirth
Revenue
Reign
What style of acting was Commedia Dell'Arte?
Monologues
Musicals
Improvisation
Pantomime
Who took over theatre during The Dark Ages?
Kings
Mimes
The Church
Plays during the Medieval era were based on what book?
Novels
The Bible
Both
Mark the types of plays Shakespeare wrote
Science fiction
Comedy
Tragedy
History
What is the name of the theatre associated with William Shakespeare?
The Royal Theatre
The London Theatre
The Globe Theatre
Shakespeare's Theatre
Apart from Blood and Phlegm, what were the other two Humours in the Theory of 4 Humours?
Red Bile and Yellow Bile
Black Bile and Yellow Bile
Yellow Bile and Red Bile
Grey Bile and Green Bilev
It is very likely that Christopher Marlowe was employed by the government of Queen Elizabeth as a
merchant for the international spice trade
courtier
royal court jester
a spy against English Catholics conspiring to overthrow Queen Elizabeth's Protestant rule
The great period of Elizabethan drama was launched by this invention of Christopher Marlowe's
sonnet
elegy
rhymed iambic pentameter
blank verse
