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Test Bank for The Theatre Experience, 15th Edition 15e by Edwin Wilson and Alvin Goldfarb. Full Chapters test bank are included with answers (Chapter 1 to 13) PART 1 The Audience Chapter 1 The Audience: Its Role and Imagination Chapter 2 Background and Expectations of the Audience Chapter 3 Theatre Spaces PART 2 The Performers and the Director Chapter 4 Acting for the Stage Chapter 5 The Director and the Producer PART 3 The Designers Chapter 6 Scenery Chapter 7 Stage Cos...

1. What is an aesthetic experience A feeling of pleasure that justifies itself 2. Which topic is studied by the humanities The cultures and beliefs thatmake up the experience of being human 3. Which branch of philosophy deals with the nature and scope of knowledge Epistemology 4. What is a clear example of the creation of aesthetic beauty in a humanities discipline a welder fabricates components for construction of a new high-rise building 5. Match each type of love with its definition.:...

THEA 201 Final Shifflett Latest Update with Verified Solutions Aeschylus -introduced the second actor -reduced the chorus to 12 people -known for stately poetic language Agitprop -type of theatre having to do with agitation and propaganda -presents an issue or problem that is important to a certain community -inspired living news papers in America (plays that acted out a certain news section) Alan Locke "The New Negro" urban not rural self-assured and articulate Anna Deave...

Resignation most nearly means: A. Losing B. Waste C. Acceptance D. Pride - correct answer c. acceptance Tangible most nearly means: A. Real B. Open C. Graphic D. Costly - correct answer a. real Feasible most nearly means: A. Workable B. Breakable C. Imperfect D. Evident - correct answer a. workable Impure means the opposite of: A. Harmonious B. Integral C. Unalloyed D. Assiduous - correct answer c. unalloyed Scale means the opposite of: A. Enlarge B. Collaps...

Resignation most nearly means: A. Losing B. Waste C. Acceptance D. Pride - correct answer -c. acceptance Tangible most nearly means: A. Real B. Open C. Graphic D. Costly - correct answer -a. real Feasible most nearly means: A. Workable B. Breakable C. Imperfect D. Evident - correct answer -a. workable Impure means the opposite of: A. Harmonious B. Integral C. Unalloyed D. Assiduous - correct answer -c. unalloyed Scale means the opposite of: A. Enlarge B. Collapse C...

Good entertainment, as opposed to good art, likely does all of the following except correct answers Challanges the audiences values Big budget broadway musicals like Chicago, that are designed to appeal to the majority of people, can best be described as ___ correct answers Commercial theatre Which of the following terms is defined as the key to the movement of a story and is what qualifies a theatrical work as a "play" correct answers Conflict The ___ of a work of art is what the wor...

Shifflett Thea 201 Final Exam Questions and Answers with Verified Solutions "Another Instance of the Disorders of the Stage is their Profaneness: This Charge may come under these two particulars: first, Their Cursing and Swearing; secondly, Their Abuse of Religion and Holy Scripture." a. Jeremy Collier b. Tertullian c. Plato d. William Prynne a. Jeremy Collier "But if we ought to abominate all that is immodest, on what ground is it right to hear what we must not speak? For all...

Why were Greek dramas originally performed? What was this God in charge of? - correct answer-Greek dramas were originally performed honoring Dionysus, the god of wine, fertility, and rebirth. Briefly define "Tragedy". What does the word tragedy come from? - correct answer-Tragedy- a serious drama featuring a none, dignified protagonist who strives to achieve something but is ultimately defeated.; it is derived from the Greek "tragodia," meaning goat-song What is the chorus? What was th...

TJC English 2332 Final Exam Review Question and answers 100% correct 2024 TJC English 2332 Final Exam Review What are the two poles of the human condition? - correct answer War & Peace - they are on Achilles' shield Who are the three Greek playwrights? - correct answer Sophocles / Euripides / Aeschylus Archon; - correct answer mayor Catharsis; - correct answer some sort of emotional release Choragus; - correct answer priest of Dionysus Choregos; - correct answer "patron" u...

A musical has three parts: the musical with orchestrated melodies; the lyrics or the sung words; and the spoken lines of dialogue. What other name describes the spoken lines? correct answers book A play without music is sometimes called... correct answers Straight play A big musical number that results in a torrent of applause is called... correct answers Showstopper What musical combined comedy and serious drama to create what we know today as the American musical? correct answers Show...