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1. Wooden O's
The greatest of all English dramatists
Theatres were round or octagonal with two or three tiers of thatched roof gallleries surrounding an open court on three sides
He is a servant to pantalone or dottore or capitano. he does not do his job well. He wears a baggy white jumpsuit. His mask has a wrinkled forehead and a big nose with nose hair. His walk is exaggerated and he leads his body with his nose
London

2. Shakespeare is considered the greatest English author because of his insight into the ___experience.
Human
Bubonic plague
Who closed down the theatre in 1642
Shakespeare was born in

3. The Restoration
A famous Morality Play
What were the wheeled stages from the medieval period called?
Queen Elizabeth
Woman actors and playwrights emerged during this period. It came about with the reestablishment of the monarchy in England in 1660 under Charles II.

4. Charles

5. pantalone
Rich old man who walks with his back hunched over. He wears a money purse and a black cloak. He has a long nose - small eyes - and a mustache
Another name for 'The Middle Ages' but it was the portion where the least happened culturally.
Who was beheaded which caused the Puritan's to take over
Richard Burbage

6. Throughout the 1590's the__killed approximately 1 -00 people a week.
Bubonic plague
A stock Commedia character who who brags about his courage but really is a coward. He wears military clothing and has large eyes. He runs with little steps - walks with big steps
Bible stories re-enacted
Woman actors and playwrights emerged during this period. It came about with the reestablishment of the monarchy in England in 1660 under Charles II.

7. Ben Johnson
The Restoration ended in 1737 - when Parliament passed the ____ - which limited London's public playhouses to two: Covent Garden and Drury Lane. All others were illegal.
Was Shakespeare's only education
A servant to pantalone or dottore or capitano. He is very intelligent and tries to trick his master. He is acrobatic - walks in a zig zag - his head follows an object and his body goes after it. He wears tight bright clothing
A classsical writer many musicals he directed

8. arlecchino
During the Restoration Period - the ____________ were very rude.
On What is most medieval drama based?
A servant to pantalone or dottore or capitano. He is very intelligent and tries to trick his master. He is acrobatic - walks in a zig zag - his head follows an object and his body goes after it. He wears tight bright clothing
Richard Burbage

9. Allegory
Julius Caesar
Poet
Type of play which en-acted the the lives of saints
A story in which people - things - and events have a hidden meaning

10. Groundlings
Usually tradespeople - soldiers - apprectices and servants who paid a penny and stood in the pit around the acting platform
London
Poet
Queen Elizabeth

11. Everyman
A famous Morality Play
Around the platform where the tradesmen - soldiers - apprentices - and servants paid a penny and stood in the place around the platform
Tragedies - histories - comedies - romances - and dark comedies
Poet

12. grammar school

13. Mystery Plays
Was Shakespeare's only education
Type of play which en-acted the the lives of saints
On What is most medieval drama based?
Bible stories re-enacted

14. Shakespeare wrote five types of plays__ -__ -__ -__ -__
Tragedies - histories - comedies - romances - and dark comedies
London
Usually son or daughter of pantalone. Wears the latest Itallian costumes. A modern day example would be Paris Hilton.
The greatest of all English dramatists

15. zanni
Woman actors and playwrights emerged during this period. It came about with the reestablishment of the monarchy in England in 1660 under Charles II.
Who closed down the theatre in 1642
He is a servant to pantalone or dottore or capitano. he does not do his job well. He wears a baggy white jumpsuit. His mask has a wrinkled forehead and a big nose with nose hair. His walk is exaggerated and he leads his body with his nose
Type of play which en-acted the the lives of saints

16. In 1592 Shakespeare left his family in Stratford and went to__to write plays.
Around the platform where the tradesmen - soldiers - apprentices - and servants paid a penny and stood in the place around the platform
A famous Morality Play
London
On What is most medieval drama based?

17. In__ -Shakespeare died on his birthday at the age of 52.
He is a servant to pantalone or dottore or capitano. he does not do his job well. He wears a baggy white jumpsuit. His mask has a wrinkled forehead and a big nose with nose hair. His walk is exaggerated and he leads his body with his nose
Was Shakespeare's only education
1616
During the Elizabethan Period where the lords and ladies paid more and had seats in the balcony

18. the lovers
During the Restoration Period - the ____________ were very rude.
Usually son or daughter of pantalone. Wears the latest Itallian costumes. A modern day example would be Paris Hilton.
The greatest of all English dramatists
Who closed down the theatre in 1642

19. dottore
A famous Morality Play
What were the wheeled stages from the medieval period called?
Backstage wher the actors changed
High on social scale but a fake doctor and fat. He moves in a figure 8 and wears a black cloak - black skull cap - black shoes. His mask covers his forehead and nose

20. William Shakespeare
Evolved during the late Middle Ages. It depicted scenes from Jesus Christ's life and death and resurrection.
When a white flag was hung outside the theatre - it meant what genre of play?
The greatest of all English dramatists
Men

21. In__ -Shakespeare died on his birthday at the age of 52.
1616
The greatest of all English dramatists
Poet
A classsical writer many musicals he directed

22. the gallery
During the Elizabethan Period where the lords and ladies paid more and had seats in the balcony
Henry the 6th and Gentlemen of Verona
Type of play which en-acted the the lives of saints
Backstage area

23. Morality Plays
Usually son or daughter of pantalone. Wears the latest Itallian costumes. A modern day example would be Paris Hilton.
Usually tradespeople - soldiers - apprectices and servants who paid a penny and stood in the pit around the acting platform
Stories teaching right from wrong in which characters personified abstract qualities
Type of play which en-acted the the lives of saints

24. the lovers
Usually son or daughter of pantalone. Wears the latest Itallian costumes. A modern day example would be Paris Hilton.
Men
Was Shakespeare's only education
Bible stories re-enacted

25. When was the Globe theater destroyed?
1616
A famous Morality Play
Richard Burbage
1613

26. Shakespeare described himself as a__ not a playwright.
Around the platform where the tradesmen - soldiers - apprentices - and servants paid a penny and stood in the place around the platform
Poet
Richard Burbage
Woman actors and playwrights emerged during this period. It came about with the reestablishment of the monarchy in England in 1660 under Charles II.

27. During Shakespeare's time - all the women parts were played by__
What were the wheeled stages from the medieval period called?
A classsical writer many musicals he directed
Men
Backstage area

28. Second Shepherd's Play
Famous writer in the Restoration Period
1616
Bubonic plague
This play is about a mix up between a newborn baby and a lamb

29. Throughout the 1590's the__killed approximately 1 -00 people a week.
Stratford-upon-Avon - April 23 -1564
When a white flag was hung outside the theatre - it meant what genre of play?
Rich old man who walks with his back hunched over. He wears a money purse and a black cloak. He has a long nose - small eyes - and a mustache
Bubonic plague

30. tiring house
Backstage area
Poet
Famous female stage personality during the Restoration Period (brother was John Phillip Kemble)
Tragedies - histories - comedies - romances - and dark comedies

31. tiring house
A servant to pantalone or dottore or capitano. He is very intelligent and tries to trick his master. He is acrobatic - walks in a zig zag - his head follows an object and his body goes after it. He wears tight bright clothing
The Restoration ended in 1737 - when Parliament passed the ____ - which limited London's public playhouses to two: Covent Garden and Drury Lane. All others were illegal.
Backstage area
Was Shakespeare's only education

32. Shakespeare built the Globe Theater along with__
He is a servant to pantalone or dottore or capitano. he does not do his job well. He wears a baggy white jumpsuit. His mask has a wrinkled forehead and a big nose with nose hair. His walk is exaggerated and he leads his body with his nose
Usually tradespeople - soldiers - apprectices and servants who paid a penny and stood in the pit around the acting platform
Richard Burbage
Shakespeare was born in

33. the pit
Henry the 6th and Gentlemen of Verona
Around the platform where the tradesmen - soldiers - apprentices - and servants paid a penny and stood in the place around the platform
Human
When a white flag was hung outside the theatre - it meant what genre of play?

34. Charles

35. Miracle Play
1613
A story in which people - things - and events have a hidden meaning
Type of play which en-acted the the lives of saints
The greatest of all English dramatists

36. comedy
Poems and Sonnets
Famous female stage personality during the Restoration Period (brother was John Phillip Kemble)
When a white flag was hung outside the theatre - it meant what genre of play?
Another name for 'The Middle Ages' but it was the portion where the least happened culturally.

37. Cycle
Woman actors and playwrights emerged during this period. It came about with the reestablishment of the monarchy in England in 1660 under Charles II.
Usually son or daughter of pantalone. Wears the latest Itallian costumes. A modern day example would be Paris Hilton.
Julius Caesar
Plays performed on pageant wagons

38. Stratford upon Avon
Stories teaching right from wrong in which characters personified abstract qualities
Shakespeare was born in
Another name for 'The Middle Ages' but it was the portion where the least happened culturally.
Queen Elizabeth

39. Audience
The greatest of all English dramatists
He is a servant to pantalone or dottore or capitano. he does not do his job well. He wears a baggy white jumpsuit. His mask has a wrinkled forehead and a big nose with nose hair. His walk is exaggerated and he leads his body with his nose
During the Restoration Period - the ____________ were very rude.
The Restoration ended in 1737 - when Parliament passed the ____ - which limited London's public playhouses to two: Covent Garden and Drury Lane. All others were illegal.

40. In 1592 Shakespeare left his family in Stratford and went to__to write plays.
Men
A famous Morality Play
London
A famous Morality Play

41. Shakespeare was born in (Place and date)
Stratford-upon-Avon - April 23 -1564
A story in which people - things - and events have a hidden meaning
A famous Morality Play
Tragedies - histories - comedies - romances - and dark comedies

42. The Restoration
Was Shakespeare's only education
Tragedies - histories - comedies - romances - and dark comedies
Woman actors and playwrights emerged during this period. It came about with the reestablishment of the monarchy in England in 1660 under Charles II.
A story in which people - things - and events have a hidden meaning

43. When was the Globe theater destroyed?
1613
Plays performed on pageant wagons
The greatest of all English dramatists
1616

44. Passion Play

45. Groundlings
A servant to pantalone or dottore or capitano. He is very intelligent and tries to trick his master. He is acrobatic - walks in a zig zag - his head follows an object and his body goes after it. He wears tight bright clothing
Usually tradespeople - soldiers - apprectices and servants who paid a penny and stood in the pit around the acting platform
Julius Caesar
Around the platform where the tradesmen - soldiers - apprentices - and servants paid a penny and stood in the place around the platform

46. Puritans
Who closed down the theatre in 1642
Another name for 'The Middle Ages' but it was the portion where the least happened culturally.
Julius Caesar
Who was beheaded which caused the Puritan's to take over

47. Sarah Kemble Siddons
Famous female stage personality during the Restoration Period (brother was John Phillip Kemble)
Poet
Backstage area
A classsical writer many musicals he directed

48. men
During the Elizabethan Period - actors were all
A story in which people - things - and events have a hidden meaning
He is a servant to pantalone or dottore or capitano. he does not do his job well. He wears a baggy white jumpsuit. His mask has a wrinkled forehead and a big nose with nose hair. His walk is exaggerated and he leads his body with his nose
During the Elizabethan Period where the lords and ladies paid more and had seats in the balcony

49. Pageant Wagons
Poems and Sonnets
Was Shakespeare's only education
Men
What were the wheeled stages from the medieval period called?

50. the gallery
Stories teaching right from wrong in which characters personified abstract qualities
Poet
During the Elizabethan Period where the lords and ladies paid more and had seats in the balcony
Famous female stage personality during the Restoration Period (brother was John Phillip Kemble)