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Question 1: The second major shift of twentieth-century scenography of Shakespeare was in Barry Vincent Jackson's 1923 production of ________ at the Birmingham Rep.
MacbethRomeo and JulietCymbelineBBC Television Shakespeare

Question 2: The production became known as the Voodoo Macbeth, as Welles changed the setting to an eighteenth century ________ run by an evil king thoroughly controlled by African magic.
Tortuga (Haiti)HaitiCap-HaïtienPort-au-Prince

Question 3: [13] The indoor setting, combined with the Jacobean vogue for lavishly staged ________, created new conditions for performance which enabled Shakespeare to introduce more elaborate stage devices.
A Midsummer Night's DreamBen JonsonMasqueWilliam Shakespeare

Question 4: He was replaced around the turn of the sixteenth century by ________, who played roles such as Touchstone in As You Like It and the fool in King Lear.
William ShakespeareThe Winter's TaleLord Chamberlain's MenRobert Armin

Question 5: Shakespeare's plays continued to be staged after his death until the Interregnum (1642–1660), when most public stage performances were banned by the ________ rulers.
CalvinismPuritanPilgrim (Plymouth Colony)English Reformation

Question 6: [43] In May 2009, Hamlet opened with Jude Law in the title role at the ________ West End season at Wyndham's.
Almeida TheatreDonmar WarehouseHaymarket TheatreRoyal National Theatre

Question 7: The staging of the reported sea fights and barge scene in ________ was one spectacular example.
BBC Television ShakespeareJulius Caesar (play)Antony and CleopatraOthello

Question 8: The other main theatre where Shakespeare's original plays were performed was the second ________, an indoor theatre built by James Burbage, father of Richard Burbage, and impresario of the Lord Chamberlain's Men.
Blackfriars TheatreKing's Men (playing company)Boy playerEnglish Renaissance theatre

Question 9: Killigrew began at Gibbon's Tennis Court before settling into ________'s new theatre in Drury Lane.
Isaac NewtonChristopher WrenRoyal SocietyRobert Hooke

Question 10: Davenant's company began at the Salisbury Court Theatre, then moved to the theater at Lincoln's Inn Fields, and finally settled in the ________.
Dorset Garden TheatreDuke's CompanyRestoration spectacularLisle's Tennis Court
















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