Theatre Exam 4 questions with
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English Restoration - correct answer ✔✔ 1660-1700
Where did Charles II assume the throne? - correct answer ✔✔ Invitation of the parliament
What did exiled English nobility returning from France bring? - correct answer ✔✔ French
theatrical practices
Theatres represented a fusion of what? - correct answer ✔✔ Elizabethan, Italian, and French
stage conventions
what aspects did the fusion of Elizabethan, Italian, and French stage conventions give flavor to?
- correct answer ✔✔ Texts, theatre buildings, and set designs
Comedies of manners - correct answer ✔✔ -Comedies of manners poked fun at the social
conventions of the upper class
-Most of the upper-class characters were disreputable
-Emphasized witty dialogue
-Filled with sexual intrigue and innuendo
-Audiences were primarily the nobility and the upper class
-Female playwrights emerged
Theatre production in the restoration (Performers and acting companies) - correct answer ✔✔ -
Women appeared in plays
, -Performers were hired for a specific period of time at a set salary
-Yearly benefit: performance of a play from which performer kept all the profits
-Theatrical entrepreneurs: often part owners of theatre buildings and companies.
Theatre production in restoration (Government and Theatre) - correct answer ✔✔ -1660,
Charles II issued patents on two entrepreneurs, and a monopoly on presenting theatre in
London was established
-1737, parliament passed the Licensing Act, a new attempt to regulate theatre
-Only 2 theatres were authorized to present drama for "gain, hire, or reward"
-The lord chamberlain became responsible for licensing plays
Theatre production in the restoration (Theatre Architecture) - correct answer ✔✔ -Three
theatres of note in London
-Drury Lane
-Dorset Garden
-Lincoln Inn Fields
Theatre production in the restoration (Scenery, Lighting, and costumes) - correct answer ✔✔
Basic components
-Wings, shutters (sometimes rolled back drops), Borders for masking
-Groove system most often used for changing scenes
-Lighting was by natural light and candles
-Costumes were contemporary clothing
The eighteenth century background - correct answer ✔✔ -Time of transition
-Western Europe prospered more than ever before directly affecting people in North America,
India, and Africa
-Called age of enlightenment
complete solutions already passed
English Restoration - correct answer ✔✔ 1660-1700
Where did Charles II assume the throne? - correct answer ✔✔ Invitation of the parliament
What did exiled English nobility returning from France bring? - correct answer ✔✔ French
theatrical practices
Theatres represented a fusion of what? - correct answer ✔✔ Elizabethan, Italian, and French
stage conventions
what aspects did the fusion of Elizabethan, Italian, and French stage conventions give flavor to?
- correct answer ✔✔ Texts, theatre buildings, and set designs
Comedies of manners - correct answer ✔✔ -Comedies of manners poked fun at the social
conventions of the upper class
-Most of the upper-class characters were disreputable
-Emphasized witty dialogue
-Filled with sexual intrigue and innuendo
-Audiences were primarily the nobility and the upper class
-Female playwrights emerged
Theatre production in the restoration (Performers and acting companies) - correct answer ✔✔ -
Women appeared in plays
, -Performers were hired for a specific period of time at a set salary
-Yearly benefit: performance of a play from which performer kept all the profits
-Theatrical entrepreneurs: often part owners of theatre buildings and companies.
Theatre production in restoration (Government and Theatre) - correct answer ✔✔ -1660,
Charles II issued patents on two entrepreneurs, and a monopoly on presenting theatre in
London was established
-1737, parliament passed the Licensing Act, a new attempt to regulate theatre
-Only 2 theatres were authorized to present drama for "gain, hire, or reward"
-The lord chamberlain became responsible for licensing plays
Theatre production in the restoration (Theatre Architecture) - correct answer ✔✔ -Three
theatres of note in London
-Drury Lane
-Dorset Garden
-Lincoln Inn Fields
Theatre production in the restoration (Scenery, Lighting, and costumes) - correct answer ✔✔
Basic components
-Wings, shutters (sometimes rolled back drops), Borders for masking
-Groove system most often used for changing scenes
-Lighting was by natural light and candles
-Costumes were contemporary clothing
The eighteenth century background - correct answer ✔✔ -Time of transition
-Western Europe prospered more than ever before directly affecting people in North America,
India, and Africa
-Called age of enlightenment
