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45 Cards in this Set
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Lysistrata |
AUTHOR: Aristophanes DATE: 411 BC *Old comedy, political satire |
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Pseudolus |
AUTHOR: Plautus DATE: 191 BC |
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The Alchemist |
AUTHOR: Ben Jonson DATE: performed 1610 |
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The Rover |
AUTHOR: Aphra Behn DATE: 1677 *Restoration comedy |
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Desdemona, A Play About a Handkerchief |
AUTHOR: Paula Vogel DATE: 1993 |
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Top Girls |
AUTHOR: Caryl Churchill DATE: 1982 |
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Offending the Audience |
AUTHOR: Peter Handke DATE: 1966 |
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Greek Dramatists |
Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides Aristophanes Menander |
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Adaptations of Lysistrata |
The Tamer Tamed by John Fletcher Chi-Raq (2015) |
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Old Comedy (486-388 BC) |
- Aristophanes is the only playwright
- SUBJECTS = burlesque, parody, political satire
- colloquial language
- parodies the conventions of tragedies
- free to include crude/indecent material
-greek |
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Structure of Old Comedy |
Prologue - introduction Agon - debate/contest Parabasis - interlude Episodes - in-between bits, chorus |
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New Comedy (323-260 BC) |
- Mildly satirical of domestic society - Features average person - Chorus is replaced with music/dance - Stock characters/situations |
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Comedia (Fabula) Palliata |
Genre of Roman drama Romanized versions of Greek new comedy |
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Menander |
- Greek dramatist - Best known playwright of New Comedy - Only complete play= Dyscolus (The Grouch) |
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Roman Dramatists |
Lucius Andronicus Plautus Seneca *Terence *only Roman dramatist we have complete works of --> acts similarly to Henslowe's Diary |
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Ben Jonson |
- The Alchemist
- first to use print to convey authorial intention (dedication to audience)
- Satirist, City Comedies
- Controversial: Isle of Dogs & Eastward Hoe --- banned & burned, both sent Jonson to jail - Every Man in His Humor & Sejanus = Jonson plays that Shakespeare acted in |
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Philip Henslowe |
- Henslowe's Diary = detailed account of receipts, performance calender, etc. Reason we know details of Elizabethan theatre - Manager of Admiral's Men (rival of Lord Chamberlain's Men) - Employed Jonson |
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James Burbage |
- Father of Richard Burbage - Actor - Built the first theatre in London called "The Theatre" |
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Globe Theatre |
- London Theatre built in 1599 - Classic amphitheatre - Burned in 1613 and rebuilt in 1613 - Since torn down and reconstructed, still exists today |
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The Workes of Benjamin Jonson (1616) |
- A catalogue of 9 plays (as well as poems and masks etc.) put together by Jonson - Made in folio (reserved for religious texts, very expensive) - Extravagant cover image (replicated the King) |
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Mr.William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (1623) |
A catalog of Shakespeare's plays Wouldn't have many of his plays without it (ex. Macbeth) |
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What is the purpose of satire? |
To expose and ridicule vice and folly with the aim to reform/correct it |
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Horatian vs Juvenalian Satire |
HORATION: gentle, lighthearted, amused at human follies JUVENALIAN: biting, dark, critical, contemptuous of human follies |
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Type Names |
A dramatic practice in which characters are given names that reflect their personality (Ex. Subtle IS subtle) |
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Comedy of Humors |
An ancient medieval theory, believed that people are controlled by one of 4 humors
-BLOOD: Sanguine - cheerful, amorous -PHLEGM: Phlegmatic - sluggish, unresponsive -YELLOW BILE: Choleric - quick-tempered -BLACK BILE: Melancholy - brooding, dejected
*Ben Jonson |
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Beast Fable |
A short tale in which animals assume human characteristics (or vice versa) to make a moral point *Ben Jonson |
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Aphra Behn |
- First professional female writer of fiction in England
- Incredibly successful as playwright, second to Dryden
- The Forced Marriage, Oroonoko, The Rover
- Passionate supporter of monarchy, royals began going to theatre - Theatre became more sophisticated/modernized |
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Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own (1929) |
"All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn... for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds." |
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Thomas Killigrew |
- Dramatist/theatre manager - King's company (Charles II) - wrote Thomaso (1654) --> play that The Rover is based on |
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William Davenant |
- Playwright
- Claimed to be Shakespeare's bastard son
- Came up with the idea to use theatre to promote political agendas
- Duke's Company |
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Early English Actresses |
Moll Davis Nell Gwyn Elizabeth Barry Anne Bracegirdle |
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King Charles II's Letter Patent to Thomas Killigrew |
- April 25, 1662 - Women actresses must perform female roles - Women actors now compete with male actors |
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Exclusion Crisis (1679-81) |
Parliament prevented James II (Charles II's brother) from taking the throne (he was catholic) |
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Thomas Betterton |
Actor that played Belville in The Rover Most famous actor of the time |
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Dorset Garden Theatre (1671) |
Indoor, wing & shutter theatre that premiered The Rover |
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"Breeches Parts" |
Roles where women dressed as men |
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John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester |
- Poet & playwright - Model for character Wilmore |
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Caryl Churchill |
- British playwright
- First play = Owners (1972)
- Cloud Nine (1979) became her first hit play
- Refined the art of overlapping dialouge
- Multiple role casting
- Continues to push the envelope of drama (Brechtian)
- Feminist |
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Joint Stock Theatre Group |
- 1974, Max Stafford-Clark = artistic director
- Collaborative methods of workshopping & creating plays
- Cloud Nine was produced this way |
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Royal Court Theatre |
-Small theatre of 380 seats -Left-leaning politics -Innovative & cutting edge drama |
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Margaret Thatcher |
- UK Prime Minister - First woman to hold office and longest running - Nicknamed "The Iron Lady" - Hated by many, criticized in Top Girls |
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Peter Handke |
- Austrian novelist/poet/playwright/filmmaker - Nobel Prize winner of Literature - Controversial, likes to create a stir/scandals |
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Metatheatre |
Theatre that comments on theatre itself |
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Lucius Livius Andronicus |
- Dramatist - First known Roman playwright who acted as an intermediary between ancient Greek and Roman stages |
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Epic Theatre |
- Created by Brecht - Alienation/ V-effect
-Cause audiences to become critical of actors/theatre -Disconnected episodes -Addresses to audience -Harsh/Bright Lighting -Explanatory Signs |
