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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which Shakespearean play is a main character named Cornelia?

2. For which Shakespearean play is it true that "as long as scholars could not decide whether this play was a comedy or not, it never got played"?

3. In what show is the climax of the first part one in which the stage action is a scribbling graffiti of war on to vast white surfaces, while a monument is formed to colonialism and revolution?

4. Whose recent production of Coriolanus underlines the whole question of where illusion begins and ends, according to the author (and the time the book was written)?

5. What director/playwright was rooted in the cabaret?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author say of change and liberation regarding "The Rough Theatre"?

2. How does Shakespeare embody both The Rough Theatre and The Holy Theatre?

3. What does the author speak of regarding Shakespeare and the Rough Theatre?

4. How does the author describe the difference between staging in "rough" theatre versus traditional theatre?

5. How does the author feel that Brecht approaches the "Holy"?

6. What is the audience's role in a final production?

7. How does the author discuss the process of theatre design?

8. How does the author compare the cinema to the theatre?

9. How does the author view "pre-planning" in approaching a rehearsal process?

10. What is the rough experience which comes from Marat/Sade?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss "The Deadly Theatre." What does this term mean? How can we learn something from Deadly Theatre? What are the components of Deadly Theatre?

Essay Topic 2

What is the playwright's role in the theatre? How is his/her role considered one of the most difficult within the creative process?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the critic as a practitioner of the theatre. How does the author view this figure as a positive influence on the art?

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