Exam 4: Experiencing and Analyzing Plays

This is a discriminating, often scholarly interpretation and analysis of a play.

This type of theatre makes no attempt to offer a realistic illusion on stage, and the actors openly acknowledge the audience and sometimes even invite members to participate.

This is someone's opinion of a play, which often includes whether it is worth attending.

The imaginary wall between the actors and audience is called…

Which of the following is not one of Goethe's three steps for play analysis?

In theatre lingo, what term means to give away lots of free tickets?

When we go to the theatre we know what is happening on stage is not real and so we put aside our concerns about reality and agree to accept the play's quasi-reality. What is this called?

Human beings have a tendency to act and react differently when they are in a group than when they are alone. This is known as…

The First Amendment protects our right to express ourselves. Which of the following is not an exception to freedom on speech?

This term means to prudishly remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material before publication.

Greek philosopher Aristotle deconstructed plays into six elements. Which of the following is not one of those elements?

In 1919, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic." This famous maxim has often been cited to underscore the fact that free speech is not a viable defense when such speech is used to perpetrate a fraud. What is this limitation of our freedom of speech often called?

In 1737, a law was passed in England that placed the censoring of plays under the authority of the Lord Chamberlain. What was the name of this law?

The performance artist Ron Athey shocked the audience the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis with his performance piece based on African tribal traditions and the disease _____.

This term has to do with the audience's ability to remove themselves from a work of art just far enough so that they can contemplate it-or even judge it.