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This riot, that took place in Manhattan in 1849, stemmed from a rivalry between two actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready.
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The Astor Place Riot
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This actor, who portrayed blackface caricatures of African Americans, sheltered shunned actors in his summer house near Philadelphia after the assassination of President Lincoln.
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Edwin Forrest
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What Scottish poet wrote Ivanhoe and popularized historical romance?
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Sir Walter Scott
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Which actress, originally trained as an opera singer, was the first native-born American to win international fame?
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Charlotte Cushman
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Which performance genre makes fun of opera or ballet by creating a comic parody, usually risque in style?
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Burlesque
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Which opium smoking English Romanticist was famous for penning his famous poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and his play Remorse?
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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When burlesque was taken over by comic opera in England, which composer was part of the duo that wrote Pygmalion and Galatea?
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Arthur Sullivan
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This Broadway show, written by Charles M. Barras, is considered the "first piece of musical theatre that conforms to the modern notion of a 'book musical'".
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The Black Crook
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Becoming an acting manager for Drury Lane in 1788, the English theatre maintained stability in the early 1800's largely due to this person.
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John Philip Kemble
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens better known by his pen name ___________, was an American author and humorist. He is most noted for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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Mark Twain
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Which English manager played a key role in laying the foundation for the order and recovery of theatre in the 1830s, and was also influential in convincing Bulwer-Lytton to switch to playwriting and is partially credited for the success of Lytton's plays
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William Charles Macready
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Who, though he was one the best poetic dramatists of the time, did not see his plays The Cenci and Prometheus Unbound acted until near the end of the century?
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Percy Shelley
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Who was Scotland's favorite poet as well as a pioneer for Romanitic movement?
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Robert Burns
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What American dramatist wrote ten plays, of which only 5 survived, including a comedy of manners play, Tears and Smiles (1807)?
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James Nelson Barker
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Which American actor, playwright, director, inventor, designer, and teacher started the American Academy of Dramatic Art?
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Steele MacKaye
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While visiting New York City in 1842, this writer lectured to gain support for copyright laws and attended a ball held in his honor at the Park Theatre in Manhattan.
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Charles Dickens
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_____________ is a stock character, usually portrayed as an Enlightened or civilized native, and was often used to help represent the true nature of man.
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The Noble Savage
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Who built the Savory Theatre in 1881 to house Gilbert and Sullivan's plays?
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Richard D'oyly-carte
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His play, The Borderers, was neo-Elizabthean in subject matter
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William Wordsworth
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Who is the American author known for his Gothic writing style that was a reaction to Transcendentalism?
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Edgar Allen Poe
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One of the first notable American authors, he wrote the The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle
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Washington Irving
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_________ was the most successful of the romantic poets in the theatre. Not only did he write more plays, but more were suited to the stage.
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Lord Byron
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What song and dance was performed by white actor Thomas D. Rice in blackface?
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Jump Jim Crow
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Which group of people, wanting to create new dramas, was heavily influenced by Charles Darwin and his book The Origin of Species?
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French Naturalists
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This famous English actress came from a large family of actors. She was named Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1925. Known for her excellent sense of timing and a masterful command of movement and speech.
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Ellen Terry
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This man is considered by some historians the greatest American actor. He also founded a theatre that he named after himself. This man is ?
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Edwin Booth
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What melodrama play about a man who confesses under hypnosis to the murder of a Jewish peddler is considered to be Henry Irving's most popular acting success?
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The Bells
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Which American actress ran her own theater in New York and actually cradled President Lincoln's head as he lay dying?
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Laura Keene
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Which western theatrical show featured performers with expertise in shooting, lassoing, and riding; it was also was one of the most ethnically diverse theatres of its time?
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Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show
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Which American actor came from a line of famous actors and at age 17 had a debut role as the Earl of Richmond in Richard III?
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John Wilkes Booth
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Which theatre was built as a place to showcase the comic operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan?
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Savoy Theatre
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Which English comedy writer worked primarily with Arthur Sullivan, and produced many popular operas, such as The Pirates of Penzance?
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William Gilbert
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The leader of the Transcendental movement and author of the Concord Hymn?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What 19th century English actor managed the Lyceum Theatre in 1878-1898?
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Henry Irving
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Who was the only African-American, whose career thrived in England, who recieved a bronze plaque at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre?
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Ira Aldridge
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Which Romantic-era American writer wrote the classic novel The Scarlet Letter?
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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This playwright wrote a comedy of manners, Fashion (1845), that depicted the values of hardworking America as more honest than the social pretensions of Europe.
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Ana Cora Mowatt
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Which American actor managed theatres and later became the first major actor to play in California?
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Junius Brutus Booth
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Frank S. Chanfrau spent the majorty of his acting career play what good-natured roughneck/volunteer fireman/popular and loveable city-boy?
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Moes the Bowery Boy
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Inheriting the throne at the age of 18, this monarch reigned for almost 64 years, longer than any other British monarch and longer than any woman in history. She is ?
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Queen Victoria
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Sister of John Philip Kemble, this actress was a renowned classical actor and was the undisputed "queen of tragedy" until her retirement in 1812.
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Sara Siddons
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