SHORT ANSWER (10 marks each) /30
Choose three (3) of the following five options. Answer in complete sentences, addressing the question in full and supporting your answers with specific historical details and/or examples.
• Identify two historical contexts examined this term in which the performance space was neutral, with little to no set design. Explain how this performance convention informed approaches to production, acting, and/or playwriting in the period, citing specific supporting evidence.
• Identify and explain two ways in which English theatre differed from Italian theatre during the 16th and 17th centuries.
• Supporting your answer with specific historical details and examples, compare the use of any of the following theatrical conventions in any two different historical periods studied this term:
• Chorus
• Allegorical characters
• Description of off-stage action
• Music
• Spectacle
• Compare the features and functions of comedy in two plays from different historical contexts examined this term.
• Based on knowledge gained from assigned reading and class discussion over the term, during which period in theatre history would you most like to either: 1. ) make theatre; or 2.) attend a theatre production. Remember: This is about demonstrating your knowledge and thinking. Support your answer with specific details.
All the plays read this term
Greek Tragedy: Sophocles’ Oedipus the Kin
The Greek Creation of Female Parts” by Sue-Ellen Case
Greek Comedy: Aristophanes’ Lysistrata
Roman Comedy: Terence’s The Eunuch
Unspeakable Histories: Terror, Spectacle, and Genocidal Memory” by Odai Johnson
Classical Indian Theatre: Shudraka’s The Little Clay Cart
Classical Indian Theatre
“A Collision of Cultures: Some Western Interpretations and Uses of the Indian Theatre” by Rustom Bharucha
Classical Chinese Theatre: Guan Hanqing Snow in Midsummer
Medieval Theatres in Europe Part 1: Hrosvit of Gandersheim’s Dulcitius
Medieval Theatres in Europe Part 2: Everyman by Anonymous
The European Renaissance: Italy…..Italian Renaissance Commedia
dell’Arte
“Women and Performance: The Development of Improvisation by the Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell’Arte” by Kathleen McGill
Early Modern English Theatre: Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
Japanese Noh Theatre: Zeal Motokiyo’s Atsumori and “A Mirror Held to the Flower
Japanese Kabuki Theatre
European Colonies: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’ Loa for The Divine Narcissus
AND Marc Lescarbot’s Le Théâtre de Neptune en la Nouvelle-France
Scenes of Cognition: Performance and Conquest” by Diana Taylor
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