SPD 130 - ELI- Trumbull -- Study Guide For Exam Three


GREEK
Dionysus
polis
dithyramb
Golden Age of Greece
Pericles
orchestra
altar
parados
Aeschylus
Aristophanes
Sophocles
Euripides
Menander
satyr play
mekane

ROMAN
Atellan farces
Etruscan influences
Naumachia
mime
Seneca
Plautus
Terence
Horace

MEDIEVAL
dark ages
quem quaeritis
trope
mysteries, miracles, moralities, cycle plays
pageant
simultaneous staging
hellmouth
platea
mansion
characteristics of medieval plays (Second Shepherds' Play as an example)
anachronisms

RENAISSANCE / NEOCLASSICISM

renaissance - meaning
neoclassical unities
Italianate staging
French neoclassicism
French Academy

ELIZABETHAN
Globe theatre
Shakespeare and contemporaries
Marlowe
University Wits
Gammer Gurton's Needle
Gorboduc
Puritan Revolution
Oliver Cromwell

RESTORATION
Charles II
amorality
women on stage

ROMANTICISM AND MELODRAMA

storm and stress (sturm und drang)
attention to detail
contributions to theatre
Edmund Kean
Dion Boicicault
Edwin Booth
James O'Neill

REALISM

Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
influences on
Antoine
Wagner
naturalism
Stanislavsky

20TH CENTURY
Group Theatre
Federal Theatre Project
Living Newspaper