The Stage and the SchoolChapter 7:
History of DramaActivity Lesson PlansIntroduction
In Chapter 7, students have learned about the origins of drama, tracing the art form's development from ancient Greece to the religious plays of the Middle Ages and Shakespeare's Elizabethan stage. Students have also studied influential contemporary dramatists and dramatic forms. In this lesson, they will review some of theater history's most important terms, forms, and playwrights. Lesson Description
Students will match terms, forms, and people with their definitions, descriptions, and eras. Instructional Objectives
1. Students will be able to recall important terms and forms related to the history of drama.
2. Students will be able to match significant playwrights with dramatic movements and historical periods. Student Web Activity Answers Sophocles | ancient Greek playwright | Mystery plays | medieval drama form | commedia dell'arte | Italian Renaissance drama form | Ben Jonson | Elizabethan comedy playwright | William Congreve | Restoration playwright of comedies of manners | Molière | Seventeenth-century French playwright | Henrik Ibsen | Norwegian "father of modern drama" | Anton Chekhov | Russian realist playwright | Arthur Miller | Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Death of a Salesman | deus ex machina | term used to indicate an artificial plot device introduced late in a play to resolve conflicts |
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