Questions 1-4: Answer the questions. What is it called when the audience is aware of something the characters don’t know?
What is the term for literary form designed for presentation by actors?
What was the theme of early drama and most of the arts due to its prominent role in society
What is the term for the belief in life on earth as important in its own right, that humans are as interesting as gods, and that the body is a beautiful thing?
Questions 5-8 Answer the following questions about drama.

What is the main difference between reading a play and reading a short story?
How do plays create context?
Many believe drama is the literary form.
For many centuries, drama focused on themes.

The charge of the light brigade reading quiz what is the tone of the poem? praising comical depressed furious

What is one advantage of listening to an audio recording as opposed to silently reading a play?

What does the author see as the main cause for why students don’t really see shakespeare as a real, flawed human being? we shouldn’t shy away from discussing our literary heroes’ flaws. if nothing else, the knowledge of their failures us appreciate what success and greatness these authors did achieve. often our hero-worship keeps us from truly seeing the complexity of a great author. thus, i would argue, nothing would be better for high school students than to take shakespeare down a peg or two. a) the fact that students never learn enough about shakespeares biography b) the fact that students only read shakespeare’s comedies while in school c) the fact that students are never assigned to read any shakespeare while in high school d) the fact that students only read shakespeare’s greatest works in school and thus never see his weaknesses