TD:150 Midterm
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- What is a Tragic Hero?
- A good person with a fatal flaw.
- What is Hubris?
- too much pride because then you put yourself on the same level as the gods.
- What is Catharsis?
- purging of tragic emotion specifically pity and fear. must happen to the audience.
- Stock Characters:
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- Lovers: did not wear masks, most realistic.
- Masters: old man with cheating young wife, young man who likes war, crazy old guy.
- Servents: Zanni, cleverest or stupidest. - Who is Zanni:
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Arlecchino: a.k.a Hurlequin
so stupid and accidently causes things to happen or purposfully. - What is Lazzi:
- Stage business that you expect to see from one of the, or some of the, stage actors.
- When was melodrama started and when was it popular?
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started: 1700's France
popular: 1800's Europe after it had spread. - What event had a tremendous impact on melodrama?
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Industrial Revolution:
- mechanization
- ben hur
- train - What is poetic Justice?
- When people get what they deserve
- Where was Henrik Ibsen from?
- Skien, Norway. Born 1858
- How did realism affect the design of theatres, century?
- they became much smaller and much more intimate, 1900's.
- What is Eugene Scribe known for?
- The "Well made play", came up with the formula but could not execute it himself.
- Quid, Pro, Quo?
- a scene in which two characters misunderstand something and it complecates the situation even more than it needs to be.
- Theatre of Alienation, who created it?:
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see mechanics of the theatre: thought that audience should be reminded that they were in the threatre see lighting fixtures etc...
created by: Bertolt Brecht - what is the direct address that Brecht had his actors use?
- actors would speak directly to the audience, breaking the fourth wall.
- What is "Theatre of Cruelty"?, who came up with the idea?
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really attacking the emotional side of the audience and not being afraid to hide anything, make the audience really confront themselves.
- Antonin Artaud - What is Dada based on?
- Chaod, Chance, Illogic, and no rules.
- Aspects of for profit theatre:
- Broadway, off broadway, off-off broadway. Producers, inverstors, any profit the show gets the investors get as well.
- Aspects of non-profit theatre:
- regional theatre: board, educational outreach, tax-deductable. state/local/fed. grants. Exempt from federal taxes. All of the money that they make goes straight back into the company.
- what is the percentage of profit that comes from box office and other sales for theatre?
- 50%
- What percentage of funding does the NEA give?
- 1% of what they need
- what year was the NEA established?
- 1965
- Aristotle's 6 elements of Drama:
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1. Plot
2. Character
3. thought/theme
4. music
5. spectacle
6. diction/language - Who were shakespeare's contemporaries?
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- George Chapman (1559-1634)
- John Martson (1576-1634)
- John Fletcher (1579-1625)
- Francis Beaumont(1584-1616) - Deus ex machina
- God from the machine: used in theatre to solve or get out of a problem.
- peripetia
- sudden reverse of circumstances.
- anagnorisis
- the point in the plot especially of a tragedy at which the protagonist recognizes his or her or some other character's true identity or discovers the true nature of his or her own situation
- who are the three tragic playwrights?
- Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus
- 2 best american playwrights:
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1. tenessee williams
2. arthur miller
?.3. eugene o'niell - Who rote Lysistrata
- Aristophanes
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*Lysistrata
The women of Athens and sparta plot to stop the war. What is their plot? - to abstain from having sex with the men until they agree to stop fighting
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*Lysistrata
Who is the athenian women encouraging and reminding the other women. - Lysistrata
- Is Lysistrata a comedy or tragedy?
- comedy
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*Lysistrata
Is their plan successful? - Yes, at the end of the play, the Spartans and Athenians have stopped fighting and are singing and dancing together.
- Who wrote "The Hairy Ape"?
- Eugene O'Neill
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*The Hairy Ape
The main character goes by the name of: - Yank
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*The Hairy Ape
This play examines which social problem that was exacerbated by the industrial revolution - Seperation of the upper and lower classes
- What does Mildred say that upsets the main character?
- "Oh the filthy beast!"
- How did the hairy Ape end?
- the main character was killed by an angry gorilla, and left in a cage at the zoo.