Drama - Unit One: Theatre History

A long, uninterrupted speech given by a character while other characters remain on stage

• Soliloquy
• Aside
• Dialogue
• Monologue

When a character says something short to the audience that the other characters on stage do NOT hear

• Soliloquy
• Aside
• Monologue
• Dialogue

A long speech in which a character who is onstage ALONE expresses his or her thoughts aloud.

• Soliloquy
• Aside
• Monologue
• Dialogue

What type of meter did Shakespeare write in?

• Iambic Pentameter
• Iambic Heptameter
• Trochaic Pentameter
• Spondaic Monometer

The prime of Greek Theatre was from

• 500 bce to 100 bce
• 5000 bce to 600 bce
• 100 bce to 900
• 5000 bce to 900

Theatre began as a way to do what

• Tell Stories
• Celebrate Hunt and War
• Worship Gods
• All the Above

Who was the Greek God that was celebrated for theatre?

• Dionysis
• Thespis
• Aeschylus
• Moliere

Who told the story of plays in Greek Theatre?

• Actor
• Narrator
• Chorus
• Director

Characters are believable, primary focus is placed on the interior lives of characters, their motives, the reactions of others etc. These are elements of what?

• Melodrama
• Realism
• Neoclassicism
• Escapism

Over-exaggerated emotions, hero vs. villian, physical comedy, and a happy ending are elements of what?

• Melodrama
• Realism
• Neoclassicism
• Post-modernism