Drama 372: First Mid-term
Part One
Please select TEN of the following terms. Identify them (what are they? When, what period, what country?) and then discuss what you see to be their significance. Why are they important? What was their influence? 50 points.
Sociétaires
Comédie Français
Lazzi
Chariot and Pole staging
Intermezzi
Confrérie de la Passion
Battle of Le Cid
Poetic Justice
Zanni
Cardinal Richelieu
Commedia dell’arte
The Neo-Classical Ideal
Part Two: choose ONE of the following short essay questions and build a two-page essay around your response. 50 points.
- Chart a relationship between any three of the plays we have read. What do the plays have in common and what story to they tell collectively?
- Choose three plays we have read and describe the plays’ relationship to state power. How does it endorse / challenge the authority of the state and why?
- Spectacle and design can be a large component to a play’s meaning. Choose any three plays and discuss how design shaped their meaning.
- How does the style of acting differ between the Commedia dell’arte tradition and the Erudita tradition?
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