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Janus “A theater is a place in which ______________________________________________. If you trace the word back to its Greek origins it literally means “________________________”. (1:00) 3. What is the name for plays that aren’t written to be performed? (1:28) ____________________ 4. A key indicator for if a performance is a play is if it has a script. (1:35) 5. “Theater is a ________________________ performance created by __________________ TRUE / FALSE _________________ and intended for a ____________________________________.” (3:00) 6. What is the correct way to spell “theater”? (3:15) THEATRE 7. THEATER BOTH NEITHER Until the 6th/7th century BCE, there wasn’t theater in the contemporary sense. What was there instead? (3:55) ____________________________________________________________________ 8. Frazer decided that theater “emerged as a sophisticated refining of ______________.” (5:45) 9. Frazer felt that worship turns into ______________, which turn into _________________, which eventually turn into theater. (5:54) 6 © 2019, K. Maxson 10. Herodotus witnessed a ceremony in _______________ where people hold ______________ and guard a temple’s entrance. They fight another group of people who arrive with ___________ ____________________. (6:45) 11. Frazer believed that all societies evolved in roughly the same way. (9:40) TRUE / FALSE 12. The idea that all societies are on a path that will eventually lead them to Western civilization, “which in this view is getting better and better all the time”, is called ____________________. (10:10) 13. According to the theory of functionalism, why do people make myths? (10:22) ____________________________________________________________________ 14. 15. What is the origin for many Greek dramas? (11:10) A. Myths C. Biographical Facts B. History D. Egyptian Dramas The theory that humans have a “mimetic impulse” says that humans have a natural “desire to ________________, to act, and to __________________.” It is through these actions that humans __________________. (12:25) Direct Episode Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNWrOuwzax8&t=611s 7 © 2019, K. Maxson Episode Guide Without Timestamps https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Karen-Maxson Name: _________________ Crash Course Theater and Drama Episode #1: What is Theater? 1. 2. Who was the Greek god of theater? A. Hypnos C. Tyche B. Dionysus D. Janus “A theater is a place in which ______________________________________________. If you trace the word back to its Greek origins it literally means “________________________”. 3. What is the name for plays that aren’t written to be performed? ________________________ 4. A key indicator for if a performance is a play is if it has a script. 5. “Theater is a ________________________ performance created by __________________ TRUE / FALSE _________________ and intended for a ____________________________________.” 6. What is the correct way to spell “theater”? THEATRE 7. THEATER BOTH NEITHER Until the 6th/7th century BCE, there wasn’t theater in the contemporary sense. What was there instead? ____________________________________________________________________ 8. Frazer decided that theater “emerged as a sophisticated refining of ______________.” 9. Frazer felt that worship turns into ______________, which turn into _________________, which eventually turn into theater. 9 © 2019, K. Maxson 10. Herodotus witnessed a ceremony in _______________ where people hold ______________ and guard a temple’s entrance. They fight another group of people who arrive with ___________ ____________________. 11. Frazer believed that all societies evolved in roughly the same way. TRUE / FALSE 12. The idea that all societies are on a path that will eventually lead them to Western civilization, “which in this view is getting better and better all the time”, is called ____________________. 13. According to the theory of functionalism, why do people make myths? ____________________________________________________________________ 14. 15. What is the origin for many Greek dramas? A. Myths C. Biographical Facts B. History D. Egyptian Dramas The theory that humans have a “mimetic impulse” says that humans have a natural “desire to ________________, to act, and to __________________.” It is through these actions that humans __________________. Direct Episode Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNWrOuwzax8&t=611s 10 © 2019, K. Maxson Answer Key https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Karen-Maxson Crash Course Theater and Drama Episode #1: What is Theater? 1. Who was the Greek god of theater? (0:20) B. Dionysus 2. “A theater is a place in which a play is performed . If you trace the word back to its Greek origins it literally means “ the seeing place ”. (1:00) 3. What is the name for plays that aren’t written to be performed? (1:28) Closet Dramas 4. A key indicator for if a performance is a play is if it has a script. (1:35) FALSE 5. “Theater is a deliberate performance created by live actors and intended for a live audience .” (3:00) 6. What is the correct way to spell “theater”? (3:15) 7. Until the 6th/7th century BCE, there wasn’t theater in the contemporary sense. What was there instead? (3:55) BOTH Religious rituals 8. Frazer decided that theater “emerged as a sophisticated refining of ritual .” (5:45) 9. Frazer felt that worship turns into rituals , which turn into myths , which eventually turn into theater. (5:54) 10. Herodotus witnessed a ceremony in Egypt where people hold clubs and guard a temple’s entrance. They fight another group of people who arrive with a shrine/statue . (6:45) 11. Frazer believed that all societies evolved in roughly the same way. (9:40) 12. The idea that all societies are on a path that will eventually lead them to Western civilization, “which in this view is getting better and better all the time”, is called Positivism . (10:10) 13. According to the theory of functionalism, why do people make myths? (10:22) TRUE “To explain and rationalize the world around them.” 14. What is the origin for many Greek dramas? (11:10) A. Myths 15. The theory that humans have a “mimetic impulse” says that humans have a natural “desire to imitate , to act, and to pretend .” It is through these actions that humans learn . (12:25) Direct Episode Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNWrOuwzax8&t=611s © 2019, K. Maxson 12 Episodes Included in this Series Ep. 1: "What is Theater?" Ep. 2: "Thespis, Athens, and the Origins of Greek Drama" Ep. 3: "Tragedy Lessons from Aristotle" - Includes a retelling of: The Oresteia Ep. 4: "Greek Comedy, Satyrs, and Aristophanes” - Includes a retelling of: The Lysistrata Ep. 5: "Dances to Flute Music and Obscene Verse. It's Roman Theater, Everybody" Ep. 6: "Roman Theater with Plautus, Terence, and Seneca" - Includes a retelling of: The Menaechmi Ep. 7: "Nostrils, Harmony with the Universe, and Ancient Sanskrit Theater" - Includes a retelling of: The Recognition of Sakuntala Ep. 8: "The Death and Resurrection of Theater as...Liturgical Drama" Ep. 9: "Hrotsvitha, Hildegard, and the Nun who Resurrected Theater" - Includes a retelling of: Dulcitius Ep. 10: "Get Outside and Have a (Mystery) Play" - Includes a retelling of: The Second Shepherd's Play Ep. 11: "Just Say Noh. But Also Say Kyogen" - Includes a retelling of: Atsumori Ep. 12: "Pee Jokes, the Italian Renaissance, Commedia Dell'Arte" Ep. 13: "The English Renaissance and NOT Shakespeare" Ep. 14: "Straight Outta Stratford-Upon-Avon - Shakespeare's Early Days” - Includes a retelling of: Richard III Ep. 15: "Shakespeare's Tragedies and an Acting Lesson" - Includes a retelling of: King Lear Ep. 16: "Comedies, Romances, and Shakespeare's Heroines" - Includes a retelling of: Cymbeline Ep. 17: "English Theater After Shakespeare" - Includes a retelling of: Voplone Ep. 18: "Where Did Theater Go?" - Includes a retelling of: The Country Wife Ep. 19: "The Spanish Golden Age" - Includes a retelling of: Life is a Dream (or La Vida Es Sueno) Ep. 20: "Rules, Rule-Breaking, and French Neoclassicism" - Includes a retelling of: Le Cid Ep. 21: "Moliere - Man of Satire and Many Burials" - Includes a retelling of: Tartuffe Ep. 22: "Pre-Columbian Theater, Spanish Empire, and Sor Juana" - Includes a retelling of: The Loa of the Divine Narcissus Ep. 23: "Japan, Kabuki, and Bunraku" Ep. 24: "All Night Demon Dance Party - Kathakali" Ep. 25: "China, Zaju, and Beijing Opera" Episodes Included in this Series Ep. 26: "England’s Sentimental Theater" - Includes a retelling of: The London Merchant Ep. 27: "Why So Angry, German Theater?" - Includes a retelling of: Faust Ep. 28: "The Rise of Melodrama" - Includes a retelling of: Under the Gaslight Ep. 29: “North America Gets a Theater...Riot” Ep. 30: "Race Melodrama and Minstrel Shows" - Includes a retelling of: The Octoroom Ep. 31: "Zola, France, Realism, and Naturalism" - Includes a retelling of: Therese Raquin Ep. 32: "Realism Gets Even More Real" - Includes a retelling of: The Power of Darkness Ep. 33: "Symbolism, Realism, and a Nordic Playwright Grudge Match" Includes a retelling of: A Doll’s House Ep. 34: "Chekhov and the Moscow Art Theatre" - Includes a retelling of: The Cherry Orchard Ep. 35: "The Horrors of the Grand Guignol" - Includes a retelling of: A Crime in a Madhouse Ep. 36: "Synge, Wilde, Shaw, and the Irish Renaissance" - Includes a retelling of: Riders to the Sea Ep. 37: "Dada, Surrealism, and Symbolism" - Includes a retelling of: Ubu Roi Ep. 38: "Expressionist Theater" - Includes a retelling of: Machinal Ep. 39: "Futurism and Constructivism” Ep. 40: "Little Theater and American Avant Garde" - Includes a retelling of: Trifles Ep. 41: "The Harlem Renaissance" - Includes a retelling of: Don’t you want to be Free? Ep. 42: "Federal Theatre and Group Theatre" - Includes a retelling of: Waiting for Lefty Ep. 43: "Antonin Artaud and the Theatre of Cruelty" - Includes a retelling of: The Jet of Blood Ep. 44: "Bertold Brecht and Epic Theatre" - Includes a retelling of: The Good Person of Setzuan Ep. 45: "Beckett, Ionesco, and the Theater of the Absurd" - Includes a retelling of: The Maids Ep. 46: "Broadway, Seriously" - Includes a retelling of: Death of a Salesman Ep. 47: "The Birth of Off Broadway" - Includes a retelling of: Funnyhouse of a Negro Ep. 48: "Poor Unfortunate Theater" - Includes a retelling of: Akropolis Ep. 49: "Into Africa and Wole Soyinka" - Includes a retelling of: Death and the King’s Horseman Ep. 50: "Broadway Book Musicals" - Includes a retelling of: Oklahoma!
