Question 1

The first important architect of the Italian Renaissance,credited with inventing perspective painting,is...

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Question 2

The French and the English viewed theatrical production in very different ways during the Renaissance.How would you distinguish between the two? What were the audience expectations for the English? What were the audience expectations for the French?

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Question 3

Based on your understanding of the transition between the Middle Ages into the Renaissance,what factors do you think most encouraged the incredible quantity and quality of playwrights writing during the time of Elizabeth I and James II?

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Question 4

The Puritans constantly attacked the theatre as an institution and as an art form.If you were a lawyer defending their position before the Queen of England,what would be the main objections that they would have with the theatre and how would you defend their position?

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Question 5

One of the most popular characters in the commedia dell'arte is the servant to Pantalone whose costume has multicolored lozenges.Who is he?

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Question 6

French comic writer __________ is famous for his satires about the medical profession,such as The Imaginary Invalid.

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Question 7

____________________ is regarded as the greatest of all Spanish playwrights.He claimed to have written over 2,200 plays with his most popular one being The Sheep Well.

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Question 8

The humanists looked to the writings of ____________________ to develop their rules of playwriting.

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Question 9

A throwback to the Italian Renaissance ranking system,the area of the stage farthest from the audience is still considered…

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Question 10

Drama developed very differently in Spain than it did in England during the Renaissance.How would you characterize the differences? What accounts for this difference in terms of the culture of each country?

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Question 11

In order to skirt the anti-theatre laws of the day,James Burbage built his famous indoor theatre in an old Dominican friary called…

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Question 12

The Humanist Scholars of the Renaissance advocated for a style of acting that they thought mimicked that of the Greeks.This style of acting,in which lines are delivered directly to the audience in a rhetorical manner,is called...

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Quiz 15: The Renaissance