Study Guide for History of Theatre I Final Exam

Be familiar with the following terms, people, plays, and concepts:

Academie Franaise (French Academy)
archway
Arlecchino (Harlequin)
Auto sacramental
Ben Jonson
box.
boxes
Caldern de la Barca
Capitano
Cardinal Richelieu
cazuela
Christopher Marlowe
Comedie Franaise
conventions of commedia dellarte
conventions of staging in Italian, English,
Spanish and French theatre
corrales
decorum
deus ex machina
Dottore
episodic vs. climactic
Fuente ovejuna
galleries.
gallery
Giacomo Torelli
Globe Theatre
heavens
Hotel de Bourgogne
humanism
I Gelosi
iambic pentameter
intermezzi
Jean Racine
lazzi
Le Cid
Lope de Vega
masque
master of revels
Moliere
mosqueterors
neoclassical ideals
opera (in relation to Italian Theatre)
Palais Cardianal
Pantalone
perspective drawing (painting)
Phaedra
Pierre Corneille
pit.
proscenium arch
raked
role of women in Italian, English, Spanish and
French theatre
role/relationship of the church in Italian,
English, Spanish and French theatre
shareholders
slapstick
Sor Juana Ins de la Cruz
spoken decor
Tartuffe
Teatro Olimpico
tiring house
verisimilitude
William Shakespeare
zanni

Utilize the companion website as well as review the PPT presentations posted in Weekly folders on
blackboard.

Also, be prepared for questions regarding Hamlet.