Tragic hero - answer person of noble birth fated by the gods to struggle against a
terrible fate
Platus - answer Roman playwright(comedies, clever slave, stock characters)
Seneca - answer Roman dramatist and humorist(Silver age)
HRE - answerChurch was gov, theater was banned
Dark Ages - answerLiturgical drama: Mystery, Miracle,Morality
Moveable pageant wagons
Commedia Dell'Arte - answerRenaissance
Masks, Stock Characters, traveling bands, made money from donations
King Henry VIII - answersplit from the catholic church
Elizabeth I - answerQueen during E period, Historical topics very popular
The Globe - answerFamous theater in E period
Shakespeare's most prominent theater
Lord Chamberlains Men - answerPlaying company shakespeare wrote for
later became the Kings Men
King James I - answerbecame patron to the kings men
Jacobean revenge tragedies
Jacobean period ended - answerwhen Charles I was beheaded
Puritan period - answerCromwell takes power in England
Dark age for theater
Restoration - answerCharles II returns from exile
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