Theatre History 1: Midterm Study Guide for Fri.

, 10/5/18
 Terminology
o Dramaturgy
o Dramaturg
o Historiography
o Performativity
o Freytag’s Pyramid
o Storytelling
o Performance Studies
 How to Write a Research Paper
o Sources
 Primary
 Secondary
 Tertiary
o Types of Citation Formats
 Ancient Egypt
o History
o Performances
o Entertainments
o Ramesseum Dramatic Papyrus
 Ancient Greece
o History
o Tragedy
 Characteristics
 Philosophers & their Writings
 Aristotle
 Poetics
o Terminology
 Katharsis
 Mimesis
 Peripeteiai
 Anagnorisis
o Elements of Drama
 Plot
 Character
 Thought
 Language/Diction
 Music
 Spectacle
o Unities
 Time
 Place
  Action
 Plato
 Playwrights
 Aeschylus
 Sophocles
 Euripides
 Plays
 Medea
 Oedipus Rex
o Comedy
 Characteristics
 Aristophanes
 Lysistrata
o Satyr Play
o Terminology
 Choregos
 Dionysius
 City Dionysia
 Lenaea
 amphitheatre
 orchestra
 skene
 paraskenium
 parados
 ekkyklema
 deus ex machina
 Epeisodia
 Stasima
 Exodus
 Protagonist
 Antagonist
 Catastrophe
 Chorus
 Ancient Rome
o History
o Performances
 Paratheatrics
 Chariot Racing
 Circus Maximus
 Colosseum
 Spinae
 Edict of Milan
  Christians in ancient Rome
 Gladiators
 Naumachiae
 Venationes
 Comedy
 Characteristics
 Atellan Farce
 Plautus
 Pseudolus
 Tragedy
 Characteristics
 Closet Drama
 Seneca
 Thyestes
 Stoicism
 Medieval Drama
o Hrosvitha
o Terminology
 Crusades
 Serfdom
 Feudal System
 Vassal
 Scriptorium
 Antiphonal
 Vellum
 Quem quaritis
 Guilds
 York
 Wakefield/Wakefield Cycle
 Towneley Cycle
 Chester
 Wakefield Master
 Officium Pastorum
 Coventry
 Pageant Wagons
 Tiring House
 Sedes
 Platea
 Mouth of Hell
 Oberammergau Passion Play
 Mormon Miracle Pageant
 Memento mori
  Ars moriendi
 Allegory
o Types of Medieval Dramas
 Morality Play
 Miracle Play
 Mystery Play/Corpus Christi Drama/Cycle Drama
 Pater Noster Play
 Passion Play
o Plays & their Characters
 Everyman
 Second Shepherd’s Play
 The Martyrdom of the Holy Virgins, or, Dulcitius