Arts Quiz

• Theater

  Place of seeing
• Greek Theater


  • Dionysus-god of wine and fertility
  • City-state of Athens-cultural, political, and military power during this period
  • Festival- The cult of Dionysus
• Greek tragedy playwrights


  • Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus
• 3 types of drama

  • Tragedy
  • Comedy
  • Satyr
• Tragedy


  Tragos-goat, ode-song, dealt with tragic events, unhappy ending
• Thespis


  Introduced the use of masks and was called the "Father of Tragedy"
• Comedy


  Derived from imitation, Aristophanes wrote most of the comedy, Lysistrata- humorous tale about a strong woman who led a female coalition to end war in Greece, Cyclops, an adventure comedy by Euripides
• Satyr


  Serious play with a happy ending, featured half-man / half-goat characters known as Satyr
• Ancient Theater Terms


  • Theatron- theater building
  • Orchestra-the center part of the theatre
  • Theatron- viewing place on the slope of a hill
  • Skene –stage
  • Parodos- side entrance
• Roman Theater


  • Plautus-acrobatics, the staging of comedies
  • Hellenization-historical spread of ancient Greek culture
  • Etruscan actors- the first who experienced theater
  • Triumvir Pompey-non-wooden theatres in Rome
  • Themes-chariots races, gladiators, and public executions
• Medieval Theater


  • Theater performances were not allowed throughout Europe
  • Minstrels-puppeteers, jugglers, story tellers, dancers, singer
  • The Mystery of Adam-(Mystére d‟Adam")-The story revolves on Adam and Eve and ends with the devil capturing and bringing them to hell
• Renaissance Theater


  • A return of Classical Greek and Roman arts and culture
  • Morality-protagonist was met by personifications of various moral attributes who try to choose a Godly life over the evil
  • Commedia dell'arte-Italian comedy
  • Elaborate masques-a dramatic entertainment consisting of pantomime, dancing, dialogue
  • Queen Elizabeth I-One of the most prominent supporters of the theater
  • William Shakespeare- famous actor and poet, England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon", 38 plays, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Midsummer Night's Dream, Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Much Ado about Nothing
  • Tragedy works: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth
  • Christopher Marlowe's (tragedies such as Dr. Faustus and The Jew of Malta), and Thomas Kyd (The Spanish Tragedy)
  • Roman New Comedy-The Shoemaker's Holiday by Thomas Dekker and ―A Chaste Maid in Cheapside‖ by Thomas Middleton
• Ballet


  • A formalized form of dance which originated from the Italian Renaissance courts, flourished from Italy to France with the help of Catherine de' Medici, Queen of France, Le Paradis d' Amour- a piece of work presented at her daughter's wedding, Marguerite de Valois to Henry of Navarre, The first formal ―court ballet ever recognized was, 'Ballet des Polonais' in 1573, Ballet des Polonais- commissioned by Catherine de' Medici to honor the Polish Ambassadors who visited Paris for the enthronement of King Henry in Poland, Ballet de la nuit
• Innovations of the Stage

  • Proscenium-the area of a theater surrounding, Arches frame and divide the stage from the audience, Backdrops for scenery popularized by the art of painting clothes, Commedia dell‟arte or ―Comedy of the Profession-quick-witted performance of the characters/players
• Baroque Theater


  • Marked by the use of technology, Deus ex Machina- a Latin word meaning "god from the machine
• Neoclassical Theater


  • Characterized by its grandiosity, Costumes and sceneries were highly elaborate, Decorum-right and proper audience behavior, Tragedy and comedy, Pierre Cornielle-"The Cid", father of the French tragedy, Jean Baptiste Poquelin (Molière)-"Tartuffe and The Missanthrope", Jean Racine-tragedian beloved, Andromache and Phaedra, Spotlight-used in the U.S. during this period and was called the "Limelight", Theatre Regulation Act of 1843- banned drinking in legitimate Theater
• Romantic Theater


  • Melodrama and ―operas became the most popular theatrical forms, "melodrame"– Greek –melos", music, and French drame", which is derived from Greek ―dran" to peform, Opera-an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text (Libretto), Victor Marie Hugo-one of the greatest and best known French writers, Works: Les Contemplations , La Légende des siècles, Les Misérables, and NotreDame de Paris" which is known as the Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Quasimodo, Romantic Composers: Georges Bizet, Carmen is the most popular among his works, Bizet composed the title role for a mezzo-soprano in the character
• Filipino playwrights


  • Francisco Balagtas y de la Cruz -Francisco Baltazar, His best known work is the Florante at Laura, Severino R. Reyes (A playwright) "Father of the Tagalog Zarzuela", one of the giants of Tagalog literature, directed the Grand Compania de Zarzuela Tagala, Walang Sugat-drama set against the historical events in Bulacan during Philippines revolution, Liwayway, a Tagalog literary weekly which published a series of fairy tales titled ― Mga Kuwento ni Lola Basyang, written by Reyes, Dr. Ricardo G. Abad-Director who directed and acted for professional companies like treatro Pilipino, and Tagalog Pilipino of the CCP and Metropolitan Theather, Salvador F. Bernal (Father of Theater Design in the Philippines)-He was the first to develop theater design as a profession and elevate it to an art form, He had designed more than 250 productions in ballet, theater and film, National Artist awardee