Name:___________________________Section:_________________

Costumes of Renaissance Plays

Activity 3: Playwrights
38.________ 39__________ 40.___________ 41.___________
Fill up the missing informations
A. Greek Playwright
Sophocles (sofəkliːz); c. 497/6 BC 406/5 BC) is an ancient Greek (8)__________.
His contemporary playwrights were Aeschylus, and Euripides. Sophocles
wrote(9)_____ plays, but only seven have survived in a complete form

Oedipus Rex( Ee-dih – pus Rex):

Main Characters:
10.____________ - the king of Thebes
11.____________- Creon - Oedipus brother-in-law
12.____________ - Creon’s wife
13.____________ - god or oracle of Delphi 42.__________ 43.___________ 44.___________ 45.___________
14.____________- father of Oedipus
15.____________ - mother and wife of Oedipus
16.____________ and _______________– sons of Oedipus
17.____________ - the blind prophet
18.____________ - Oedipus foster father
19.____________- Oedipus foster mother
20.____________and ___________ – the daughters of Oedipus
21.____________- Antigone’s lover
22.____________-the half-human half lion that symbolizes plague and misfortune
C. Renaissance: Romeo and Juliet
(William Shakespeare)
Montague’s Family:
23. Romeo — _________________
24. Lord Montague — _________________ C. Romantic Playwrights:
25. Lady Montague — ________________
26. Benvolio — _________________ During Romantic period, melodrama and ―operas‖ became the most popular theatrical
27. Balthasar — _________________ forms. Melodrama originated from the French word “melodrame”, which is derived from
28. Abraham — _________________ Greek ―melos”, means (46)___________, and French‖ drame”, which is derived from Greek
29. Capulet’s Family _________________ ―dran”(47)_____________ to perform.
30. Juliet — _________________
31. Lord Capulet — _________________ Victor Marie Hugo famous plays:
32. Lady Capulet — _________________
33. Tybalt — _________________ 48.. _________________ 49. __________________
34. The Nurse — _________________ The most popular play of George Bizet is: (50)________________
35. Peter — _________________
36. Sampson — _________________
37. Gregory — _________________