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-wrote DE ARCHITECTURA
-italian renaissance |
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-critic's POV
-"to teach and to please" |
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-religious authorities POV
-"to teach, please, and to persuade" |
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-audience's POV
-"to please the ignorant" |
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-Italian statesman, author, political philosopher
-reminiscent of Roman New Comedy
-THE MANDRAKE |
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-1580-1584
-mini indoor roman theatre
-5 entrances to stage
-oldest surviving italian ren theatre |
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-1588
-more representative of common theatres than olimpico
-small, 250
-horseshoe shaped area |
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-1618
-permanent proscenium arch stage
-circular
-floodable orchestra |
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-used Vitruvius as a model to write ARCHETETTURA
-used rules of perspective, angled wings and ranked stage
-3 settings, 1 per play |
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-group of pre-Shakespearean playwrights
-Marlowe, Kyd, Lyly, Greene |
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-university wit
-credited with introducing iambic pentameter
-DOCTOR FAUSTUS, THE JEW OF MALTA, EDWARD II |
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-university wit
-The Spanish Tragedy
-influenced HAMLET |
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-known for comedy of humours
-wrote court masques
-VOLPONE |
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-HENRY THE 8th & TWO NOBLE KINSMEN co-written by shakespeare & Fletcher
-PHILASTER
-THE KNIGHT OF THE BURNING PESTLE - Beaumont |
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-THE DUCHESS OF MALFI
-known for extremely violent, dark plays |
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-court architect and stage designer for James I and Charles I
-brought italian innovtions to england:
-proscenium arches, systems for changing scenery, painted-perspective stage sets |
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| LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S MEN/KING'S MEN |
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-1594-1642
-shakespeare's troupe
-performed at the Rose, The Globe |
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-1567-1619
-Elizabethan actor
-owned land where the Globe was built
-famous for impression of Richard III and other shakespearian characters
-tragedy
-painter |
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| -famous clown in lord chamberlain's men |
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-1594-1621
-Rival to Lord Chamberlain's Men
-managed by Philip Henslowe and Edward Allyn
-performed at the rose and the fortune |
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-Burbage's counterpart in Lord Admiral's Men
-played leading role in several of Marlowe's plays
-co-managed Lord Admiral's Men |
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-first private/indoor theatre
-1576-1608
-used exclusively by the popular boys' companies
-later used by the university of wits and kings men during the winter |
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-1576-1598
-built north of london because theatre had to be located outside of the jurisdiction of city officials |
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-1587-1606
-original had 13 or 14 sides
-diameter of inner yard= 49 feet |
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-1599-1644
-most famous theatre built by Richard and Cuthbart Burbage for LCM.
-18-20 sides
-rebuilt in 1990's |
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-actor, manager, playwright
-most popular performer in early Spanish theatre
-wrote and directed auto sacramentales for Corpus Christi festivals
-wrote secular plays
-5 full-length plays and 12 pasos |
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-1562-1635
-made comedia nueva (comedia) most popular of his day
-the standard
-wrote 400-1800 plays
-DISCOVERY OF THE NEW WORLD
-FUENTEOVEJUNA
-PUNISHMENT WITHOUT REVENGE
-ACTING IS BELIEVING |
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-1600-1681
-wrote about 200 plays and autos
-SURGEON OF HIS HONOR
-LIFE IS A DREAM
-PHANTOM LADY |
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-1651-1695
-nun
-beauty and intelligence
-poetry, music, plays, theological works
-HOUSE OF TRIALS
-DIVINE NARCISSUS
-"Reply to Sor Filotea" |
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-1584-1648
-80 surviving plays out of 200+
-TRICKSTER OF SEVILLE - first Don Juan play
-DON GIL OF THE GREEN BREECHES - better women's roles |
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-group of scholars interested in solidifying ideals of French culture
-advocated the Neoclassical Ideal |
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-est 1636
-official guardians/arbiters of French language and style |
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-wrote "Observations on Le Cid"
-appealed to French academy about LE CID |
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-1606-1684
-THE CID
-THE THEATRICAL ILLUSION
-elected to French Academy in 1647 |
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-helped Henry 8 rule
-concentrated power and authority in crown
-cultural power, not just military/political
-encouraged formation of French Academy |
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-permanent, public theatre building
-had its own acting company
-known for great TRAGEDIES
-Bellerose and Mountfleury- famous actors
-constructed by the Confraternity of the Passion |
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-1634
-public, converted from tennis court and rebuilt after fire
-known for famous actors and extravagant design |
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-famous clown, played in whiteface
-Moliere wrote for him
-played in THEATRE du Marais |
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-1622-73
-inspired by commedia dell'arte troupes
-rhyming couplets
-actor- King's Men |
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-1608-1678
-designer for Palais Royal
-brought italianate design to Paris
-pole and chariot system, extravagant scenery |
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-first national theatre in the world
-formed when Louis XIV merged two earlier groups
-granted monopoly
-Corneille, Racine, Moliere |
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-reigned 1643-1715
-performed in ballet de'entrees |
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| -actor from Hotel de Bourgogne |
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-Vitruvius
-text based on Roman architecture and deals extensively with theatrical design
-landscape architecture, construction, materials |
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-Sebastiano Serlio
-detailed many of the early methods for creating perspective settings
-three settings necessary:
-Tragic: stately, high class buildings
-Comic: common buildings
-Pastoral: trees, hills, cottages |
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-Sor Juana
-sacramental play published in Mexico in 1690 |
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| "OBSERVATIONS ON THE CID" |
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-Georges de Scudery
-attack on Corneille's LE CID
-"play doesn't follow neoclassical rules
-violates reality, does not uphold poetic justice |
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-Pierre Corneille
-very popular
-attacked by critics
-lead to controversy that had to be settled by the french academy |
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| "OPINIONS OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY" |
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-1638
-intellectuals, not public judge if a play is good
-CID violates decorum
-plot is unrealistic
-violates unities
-"An example must be made" |
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-Moliere
-short play written, planned, and acted in a week
-was Moliere's defensive reaction to his critics |
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-Sor Juana
-open letter that responds to a letter supposedly writeen by a fellow nun (was actually a male priest)
-defends rights of women to be educated
-validates women's pov |
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-Italian Ren
-short pieces appearing between acts of full-length plays
-depicted mythological tales
-thematically related to full-length play
-often required spectacular scenic effects
-disappeared in 1600s |
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-Italian Ren
-romantic pieces about shepherds and shepherdesses and satyrs
-action is serious, end with happy loves
-influenced by greek satyr plays but not as bawdy |
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-mid-1500s
-improvised, masked theatre
-comic plots and stock characters
-widely popular thruout europe during renaissance
-ahighly adaptable
-acrobatics, music, and acting
-set scenarios |
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-lovers (young ingenue and male lead)
-unmasked
-companies had major/minor pairings
-performed collected poems |
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-foolish old man
-often villain
-Mr. Burns (simpsons) |
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-"doctor"
-bumbling know-it-all |
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-servants
-masked except women |
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-servant
-cunning and cynical
-mustache
-goal is to outwit lovesick fool, rob a miser, or beat up a creditor |
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-servant derived from devil character
-acrobatic sideman
-often with wooden sword or slap stick |
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-servant who is always gluttonous or hungry
-beak-like nose |
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-female comic roles
-usually unmasked |
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-written in 1300s and 1400s by italian playwrights
-religious dramas written in Medieval style
-"sacred representations" based on Biblical stories and lives of saints |
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-1400s-mid-1500s
-catch-all term for a type of performance
-often presented between courses of a banquet
-often 8 actors
-could be a dramatized conversation meant to impart a moral lesson
-THE PLAY OF FOUR PP |
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-early 1500s-1580
-plays written in English that incorporated popular tastes and themes
-reason for the development of boys' acting troupes |
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-Ben Jonson
-four humors- one character for each |
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-elaborate entertainment presented at court
-favorite of royalty and nobility |
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| -a burlesque of the main theme (masque) |
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-boy troupes performing for public and court
-often cutting satire
-developed because of School Drama |
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-one-act religious spectacles performed at Corpus Christi festivals by professional
-used carros
-allegorical characters |
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-"play"
-created by Lope de Vega
-ignores neoclassicism
-3 acts (jornadas) with into (loa), 2 other skits between acts (entremeses)
-polymetric
-widely adaptable format
-often used stock characters
-performed by professionals
-performed in corrales |
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-dramatic pieces combining folk songs and narratives
-sometimes seen as precursor to modern musical
-Spanish court entertainment
-performed at royal hunting lodge |
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-skits between acts of comedias
-could be spoken or sung |
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-introductory piece to comedia
-usually not written by the same playwright as comedia |
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-"act of faith"
-stylized public ceremony in which convicted heretics were either reconciled back into the church or "relaxed" to secular authorities to be burned at the stake |
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-dialogue alternated with dancing scenes
-performed for court
-Moliere |
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-like English masques
-allegorical
-simple court dances with an explanatory libretto
-performed between the acts of Corneille and Racine's plays
-Louis XIV |
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| -male comic servant in Comedia |
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| -special effects and spectacle |
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-rules formulated by Italian critics
-formulated to imitate Greeks and Romans
-decorum
-verisimilitude
-3 unities
-no mixture of genres
-no violence on stage
-no chorus |
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-"likeness to truth"
-reality, morality, universality
-plays must be recognizable and verifiable from real ife |
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| -the good rewarded with good and bad rewarded with bad |
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-norms of behavior for types of people and plays
-servants should be servile
-kings should be noble
-men should be manly |
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-TIME- action cannot exceed 24 hrs
-PLACE- must take place in one location, nowhere that can't be reached in 24 hours or less
-ACTION- only one main action, no subplots |
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-how the human eyes see
-set design
-angled wings and raked stage
-helped achieve some 3d effects |
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| -special effect flying machines that helped with scenery changes in Italian Ren |
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| -a shift from seeing reality from god's perspective to seeing reality through human perspective |
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-piece of well-rehearsed comic action commonly used in commedia dell'arte
-repeated bits of physical comedy business |
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| -moveable wagon-stages at the Corpus Christi festival on which plays were performed |
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-performance space
-courtyard surrounded by 3 buildings
-strict segregation of genders |
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-"cleanliness of blood"
-underlying social concern for the Spanish |
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-1479
-process by which the church detected, tried, and reconciled heretics
-cleansing, not converting
-used fear, peer pressure, and anonymous testimony |
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-honor is defined by gender roles
-women- purity/fidelity. can be preserved, but once lost, it cannot be recovered by woman
-men- protecting purity of wife, mother, daughter, sister, etc. honor can be recovered but is constantly threatened |
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-"stew pot"
-gallery opposite the stage on a back wall above the main entranceway in the yard
-women's seating area
-guarded |
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| describes theatre in the time of King James I |
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| -describes theatre in the time of King Charles I |
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