| A | B |
|---|
| Dionysus | Greek go of wine whose festivals began western theater |
| Thespis | the first actor |
| skene | the backstage hut for Greek theater |
| machina | the machine in Greek theater |
| deus ex machina | the god from the machine; an unbelievable ending |
| Sophocles | Greek author of Oedipus Rex |
| Aeschylus | Greek author of the Orestaia |
| Euripides | Greek tragedian |
| Aristophanes | Greek comic playwright |
| Roman theater | a pale imitation of Greek theater |
| Miracle plays | Medieval plays that told Bible stories |
| Morality plays | Medieval plays that dealt with vices and virtues |
| Mystery plays | Medieval plays that told about the lives of the saints |
| pagaent wagon | a roling stage in the Middle Ages |
| cycle | a collection of plays around one theme |
| mansions | different stages for cycle plays around a town square |
| Moliere | the Shakespeare of France |
| Lope de Vega | the Shakespeare of Spain |
| Ben Jonson/Christopher Marlowe | contemporaries of Shakespeare |
| The Globe | Shakespeare's theatre |
| Renaissance | the rebirth of theater after the Middle Ages |
| commedia dell'arte | an Italian renaissance improvizational troupe art form |
| scenario | the plan of action for commedia dell'arte |
| stock characters | the characters of commedia dell'arte |
| Restoration | the restoration of theater in England and the first time women were allowed on the stage |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan | author of School for Scandal |
| Oliver Goldsmith | author of She Stoops to Conquer |
| Covent Garden and Drury Lane | official government theaters of the restoration |
| neoclassicism | style of theater that attempted to recreate the classes |
| romanticism | a style of theater that stresses grand emotion and exotic locales |
| realism | a style of theater that attempts to create an exact replica of reality |
| Henrik Ibsen | the Norweigian father of realism |
| Constantin Stanislavski | the Russian theorist who helped create the Method, a modern way to look at acting |
| Anton Chekov | the Russian author of Uncle Vanya |
| broadway | the modern hub of American theater |
| musical theater | a new form of theater that originated in the 20th century |
| Lorraine Hansbury | african-american author of A Raisin in the Sun |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber | the English composer of many modern musicals including Cats |
| Kabuki | a form of Japanese theatre for men only |
| Bunraku | a form of Japanese doll theater |
| Noh | an ancient form of Japanese theater |
