Write a brief essay describing some of the various theatrical genres that were written in the nineteenth century
What will be an ideal response?
melodramas
introduced wordless instrumental music as an accompaniment to stage action
other theatrical presentations:
farces
"afterpieces" that followed the main play or opera
interludes
short pieces that went between acts of longer works
pantomime
stage action and speech accompanied by wordless music
comedia dell'arte
species of pantomime
stock comic characters
Harlequin
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What term or phrase best describes the Roman stoic principle that the best citizens declare themselves citizens of the world and hence "deliberate about nothing as if [they] were detached from the community?"
a. cosmopolitan ideal b. "Man is the measure of all things" c. Pax Romana d. "We have nothing to fear in death"
Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote is classified as a
a. romance. b. travelogue. c. epistolary novel. d. picaresque novel.
Between 1964 and 1975, when the Royal Shakespeare Company was performing outside of London in Stratford,
its Aldwych Theatre in London hosted companies from around the world. This exposure provided a crossfertilization of drama and theatre practices that greatly diversified and enriched British theatre and drama.
a. True b. False