Why did historians deem popular entertainments unworthy of serious study for so long?
What will be an ideal response?
The student could discuss the idea of popular entertainments being unscripted,
not comprised to a high enough degree of the sixth elements of Aristotle's Poetics, or of the
lack of intellectual integrity as enough grounds for historians to have ruled them "un-
theatrical" and not truly an art.
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a. includes a chorale melody in some of its parts b. was intended for performance during a worship service c. has far fewer arias and choruses d. All of these choices
In ________, the hero or heroine is a person of social stature: a king, a queen, a general, a nobleman, etc.
A. traditional tragedy B. modern tragedy C. both traditional and modern tragedy D. neither traditional nor modern tragedy