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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. What is the climax of the theatre, which is not the climax of applause?

2. What used to be the great symbol of a whole school of theatre?

3. The author says that we think of what as killing the theatre?

4. Where did the Royal Shakespeare Company's Lear find an unwilling audience?

5. According to the author, with most experimental products, "______ is their complaint and their excuse."

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Deadly Theatre and Shakespeare intersect?

2. What does the author say in discussing the removal of the symbolic curtain in the theatre?

3. Discuss the playwright's role, as established by the author.

4. How does boringness contribute to people attending Deadly Theatre?

5. What metaphor does the author use for the theatre in the first section of the book, and what is his meaning?

6. Describe Brook's "Theatre of Cruelty." Whose concepts and theories was this based upon?

7. Describe the qualities which contribute to Deadly Theatre.

8. What similarity ties the three artists whom the author discusses in "The Holy Theatre"?

9. Does "Holy Theatre" mean serious theatre? Why or why not?

10. What does the author say about New York theatre and its economic focus?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the role of ritual within art. How does the author feel ritual's place has diminished in contemporary society? How do we attain ritual in art?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Discuss the topic of "Style" as the author regards it. How does one approach style? How does style manifest within the theatre?

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