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55 Cards in this Set
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Comic boisterous extreme the actor wishes to create
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Slapstick
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Light, humorous play; skillfully executed situation
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Farce
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"Comedy of Art"
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Commedia dell'Arte
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Started from Comerata in Florence
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Opera
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Straight roles, most common stock characters
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Lovers
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Extreme comedy
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Buffoonery
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Verbal pieces performed by stock characters
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-ouric
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Most humourous, given to experienced actors
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Lazzi
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First man-servant, cunning
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Brighella
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???? (antagonist?)
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Contaminato
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Club-like organizations formed with the purpose of studying and performing
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Academies
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hunch-backed, beak-nosed individual
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-cinella
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Used for Stock characters
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Mask
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Soldier
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Capitano
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Extremely sexual comedy
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Burlesque
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Composition imitates
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Parody
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Servant
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Zanni
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common, normal, stereotypical character
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Stock character
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Most popular; stupid, gullible, first manservant
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Harlequin
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Where plays were performed
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Inn Courtyards
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Old merchant who got pretty, stupid girls
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Pantalone
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Supported by state funds, developed numerous (scenes?)
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Court Theaters
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Known for its Shakespeare
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Globe Theater
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Built by James Burbage; first theater constructed in the Elizabethan period
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The Theater
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Middle piece
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Intermezzi
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Occurs out of the ordinary
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Unexpected
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Intro; separate from stories
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Induction
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Story within a story
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Frame Story
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Character says only to audience
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Aside
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Unexaggeration
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Understatement
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First dramatic addition to ordinary Catholic liturgy
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Tropes
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"Whom do you seek?"
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"Quem Quertis"
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Narrative, either verse or prose; actions, sometimes abstract...
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Allegories
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Fraternities; groups of people who specialized in size
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Guilds
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Biblical, dramatic incidents from lives of Saints and works of Martyrs
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Miracle Plays
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Plot & characters drawn from the Bible
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Mystery Plays (Cycle Plays)
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Dramatized spiritual conflicts of average man
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Morality Plays
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Vices/Virtues, Coming of Death, Summoning of Man
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Conflicts of Morality Plays
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Drawn from biblical events/stories; miracle, mystery, morality
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Liturgical Plays
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Secular plays
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Mummers' Plays
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York (14 hours), Chester (3 days); varying amounts of time and characters
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Cycle Plays
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Mistaken use of a word; switching one word for one that sounds similar
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Malapropism
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Word that has two or more meanings; ambiguity can be used for comedic or serious effect
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Pun
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Mindset of Cyrano & Roxanne
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Idealists
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Dominant Medieval Mindset
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Church; Religious
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Focuses of Everyman
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Beauty, Strength, Intellect, Five Senses, Conscience, Aging Process
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Everyman represents...
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The Journey of Life and Forgiveness
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Women are Inferior to men by...
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Nature & Divine Law
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Chaucer conveys satire through...
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Appearance, clothes, equipment, professionalism
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Ideal Elizabethan Woman was...
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Calm, submissive, showed respect to husband, knew place, "bows down"
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Contained conversation with limited narration
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Momentum
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Characters' feelings and thoughts were put into...
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Letters
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Austen targeted...
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Gentry Class
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Austen values...
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Idealism, character, wit, intelligence
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Austen's satire was...
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Juvenalian
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