Audiences And Critics. Chapter 11

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A play's final repository is:
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The minds and memories of its audiences.
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The public form of play analysis following a production is called:
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Dramatic criticism.
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Dramatic criticism usually appears in all of the following forms except:
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Director's notes in a program booklet.
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Examples of theatres that have been created or sustained by governments or ruling elites include all of the following except:
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Theatre of the Absurd and Antirealistic theater.
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Why is the theater in a unique position to force and focus public confrontation about social issues?
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Most productions do not act as propaganda but present the issues in all their complexity as food for thought and as such focus public attention and compassion to important issues.
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Play's ability to connect with the audience members on a personal level is due to the fact that the best plays:
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Link up with our deepest musings and help us to put our unconnected ideas into some sort of order or philosophy.
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An audience members aesthetic sensibility and responses are:
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A composite of many individual reactions and therefore entirely subjective.
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Play is that refer to theater matter not simply as a vehicle but as a theme are called:
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Metadrama or metatheater.
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Which of the following is not an example of a play that makes the theater and matter in the play itself?
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Sophocles Oedipus Rex (Oedipus The King)
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What word fits the definition of "that which hold the attention"?
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Entertainment.
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Theatre can be seen as entertainment:
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In all cases.
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A member of the audience may see a play from five critical perspective:
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Social significance, human significance, artistic quality, theatrical expression, and entertainment value.
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Professional dramatic criticism take the form of:
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Newspaper and television news reviews, scholarly works, theater websites, online blogs and journals.
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The journalist's review generally is:
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Limited to a brief, immediate reaction written within a few days of seeing the performance.
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The newspaper critic's principal job qualification:
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Writing ability.
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Scholarly critics generally write:
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Detailed, comprehensive and rigorously researched articles without the deadline or space limitations of newspapers.
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The disciplines of scholarly writing and performance studies draw from what other scholarly fields?
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Linguistics and anthropology.
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Which is true of professional scholars?
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They seek fresh insights from a body of literature while working within accepted methodologies.
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An example of a well-known New York theatre critic is:
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Hilton Als.
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Which type of critic needs a sufficient background of knowledge and experience to provide a context for opinion and evaluation?
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Informed.
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Which type of critical to the theater to its highest possible standards and cut against the inherent danger in drama to turn toward pure entertainment or sensationalism?
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Demanding.
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Which type of critic expresses his thoughts with precision, clarity and grace, through the careful building up of ideas, a presentation of evidence, logical argument, the use of helpful analogy and example, and a clear style of expression?
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Articulate.
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The presence of a critical focus in the audience has the effect of keeping the theatre:
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Honest.