Humanity exam three

Farce lacks three-dimensional characters

Considered by Aristotle to be the most tragic of the Greek dramatists

Never found in Elizabethan theater

The first recorded comedies were written by Greek tragic playwrights, possibly in order to

Serious criticism aimed at the betterment of society but accomplished through laughter:

Of primary importance in tragedy is the death of the main character

Racine's Phaedra added to the theater the element of

Author of A Raisin in the Sun, a groundbreaking play about an African American family

In the Jean Racine play, Phaedra is married to Theseus but lusts after her gardener

The History Boys is a highly acclaimed play that deals with

The central theme of The History Boys is whether education has any validity

At the end of Medea, the title character recognizes her error in one of the theater's famous speeches of repentance

The commedia dell'arte specialized in

In the Elizabethan theater, female roles were played by boys or men

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman makes masterful use of flashbacks

All of the following are themes of Angels in America except

In Shakespeare's plays emotions are discussed but never shown

By the time the curtain falls on a traditional comedy like Moliere's The Would-Be Gentleman, the fool comes to a realization of his foolishness

In the second part of Shakespeare's Henry V, the newly crowned king halts the Coronation to embrace his old friend Falstaff

Ragtime rhythm is so rapid that many pianists cannot play it

The students in Spring Awakening are denied all knowledge of

Credited as the first musical to unify plot, characters, songs, and dances

Choreographer Twyla Tharp combines classical and modern dance with pop music and jazz

A contemporary musical deals with the formerly off-limits topic of mental illness

The New York City Ballet was founded by dancer and choreographer Martha Graham

Porgy's mode of transportation

Pal Joey is the first major musical to have an unsympathetic main character.

German composer Richard Wagner believed Italian opera had made a mistake in

Spring Awakening is a ballet composed by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky

The 1975 musical about dancers auditioning for a Broadway musical was called One Singular Sensation

Not involved in flamenco dancing

gambler, pimp, and drug dealer named Sportin' Life is a deceptively charming character in West Side Story

Monteverdi's most famous opera, Rigoletto, is based on the myth of Hercules

Verdi's romantic opera La Traviata (1852) was not an instant success.

In Of Thee I Sing, the future First Lady is chosen through a

Founded by Balanchine:

Directors who are trusted to choose their own projects and who often write their own screenplays that reflect their personal philosophies are known as

characterization identified with a certain actor, often to the point where the actor and the character are perceived as the same person

Classic film believed to have been based on a real-life newspaper publisher

The Birth of a Nation justified the actions of the Ku Klux Klan

Sophisticated animated film, the theme of which is good taste and how to recognize it

A famous film noir, Casablanca is set in

Alfred Hitchcock's famous shower scene occurs in this film

Citizen Kane did not do well at the box office, although it was praised by critics

Decade of It Happened One Night

In It Happened One Night, Colbert and Gable string a blanket between their motel-room beds for modesty and refer to it as "the great wall of China

All of the following are criteria for critical film viewing except

A nonfiction film that usually has a narrator but not a structured storyline is a

The Akira Kurosawa film in which the audience is introduced to feudal Japan's warrior class

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first full-length animated feature film

Griffith and Eisenstein are famous auteurs of film noir

An immortal line from Casablanca is "Here's looking at you

In Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee uses a version of the chorus, a convention that dates back to the theater of ancient Greece

Famous lingering take in The Birth of a Nation

The Odessa steps scene in The Battleship Potemkin is an example of an elongated moment.

conventions theater

classical or Sophocles conventions

Greece violence is

Rome violence is

Elizabeth or Shakespeare conventions

Tragedy

catharsis

hubris

the theme of Sound of Music

Regional context of Sound of Music

All famous broadways have been written about

Alfred Hitchcock innovations

Conventions of film

conventions of film examples

critical viewing of films