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Question 1
Which figure is traditionally credited as the first actor in Western theatre, stepping out of the chorus in Ancient Greece to speak as an individual character?
Correct Answer:
Thespis
Question 2
In his Poetics, which concept did Aristotle use to describe the emotional purging or release that tragedy produces in its audience?
Correct Answer:
Catharsis
Question 3
Which Roman playwright is best known for tragedies written primarily for private reading or recitation rather than public performance, later influencing Renaissance revenge tragedy?
Correct Answer:
Seneca
Question 4
Medieval European liturgical drama, performed inside churches to dramatize biblical episodes, is generally understood to have grown out of which short sung dialogue embedded in the Easter Mass?
Correct Answer:
The Quem Quaeritis trope
Question 5
What term describes the short comic bits of stage business, such as pratfalls or sight gags, improvised by masked servant characters in Commedia dell'Arte?
Correct Answer:
Lazzi
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