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53 Cards in this Set
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manuscript |
document, or piece of music written by hand rather than typed or printed |
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holograph/autograph |
a manuscript handwritten by the person named as its author |
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Bardolatry |
excessive admiration of Shakespeare |
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David Garrick |
English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of theatrical practice throughout the 18th century |
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Jacobean |
of or relating to the style of literature and drama produced during the early 17th century (era of Shakespeare). |
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interregnum |
a period when normal government is suspended, especially between successive reigns or regimes |
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Reformation |
a 16th-century movement for the reform of abuses in the Roman Catholic Church ending in the establishment of the Reformed and Protestant Churches. |
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Restoration |
The Restoration period begins in 1660, the year in which King Charles II (the exiled Stuart king) was restored to the English throne. |
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Public Theatres |
The Globe, The Swan, The Rose |
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Private Theatres |
The Blackfriar, The Curtain |
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Neutral Platform Stage |
Unlocalized stage which allows for easy shifts of locale through the use of properties, entrances, and exits. It was used first in the Middle Ages and later in the English Renaissance. |
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Thrust Stage |
Platform stage surrounded on three sides by the audience |
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Verbal Décor |
The practice of Shakespearean actors to decorate with words rather than actual props |
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Tiring House |
a section of a theater reserved for the actors and used especially for dressing for stage entrances |
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Heavens, Gallery |
a roof protecting the stage of a public theater, often painted on the underside to represent the heavens literally. |
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Pit, Groudlings |
In Elizabethan theater, audience members who stood in the yard. |
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Acting Companies |
Lord Chamberlain's Men/King's Men, Lord Admiral's Men |
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Shakespearean playwrights |
Christopher Marlowe Thomas Kyd Ben Jonson |
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Marlowe's Mighty Line |
Marlowe alternated the regular stresses, varied the caesuras within a line,used the run-on line so as to give continuity to the poetry (blank verse) |
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Iambic Pentameter |
a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable |
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Iamb |
a metrical foot consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable or of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable (as in above) |
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Petrarch |
a sonnet form popularized by Petrarch, consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd. |
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blazon |
(heraldry) a conventional description ordepiction of heraldic arms |
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caesura |
a break between words within a metrical foot |
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enjambed |
ending partway through a sentence or clause that continues in the next. |
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compositor |
a person who arranges type for printing or keys text into a composing machine |
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paratext |
other material supplied by editors, printers, and publishers |
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dedicatory epistle |
a letter, especially a formal or didactic one;written communication. |
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facsimile |
an exact copy, especially of written or printed material |
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Edwin Forrest |
prominent nineteenth-century American Shakespearean actor (signed name into list of actors in second folio) |
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copytext |
original or earlier piece of work that is used to create a new edition of a book |
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anthology |
a published collection of poems or other pieces of writing |
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sammelband |
a book comprising a number of separately printed works that are subsequently bound together |
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apocrypha |
writings or reports not considered genuine Pericles, Prince of Tyre Edward III |
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lost play |
Love's Labour's Won Cardenio |
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Stationers' Register |
a record book maintained by the Stationers' Company of London. The company is a trade guild given a royal charter in 1557 to regulate the various professions associated with the publishing industry, including printers, bookbinders, booksellers, and publishers in England |
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mimesis |
imitation |
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catharsis |
the purgation of pity and fear |
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anagnorisis |
the moment of recognition the hero experiences often the hero recognizes something about his/her character, the characters around them, or the situation they are in |
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peripeteia |
the reversal of fortune experienced by the protagonistthis can be internal |
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primogeniture |
the right of succession belonging to the firstborn child, especially the feudal rule by which the whole real estate of an intestate passed to the eldest son. |
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filicide |
the killing of one's son or daughter. |
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masque |
a form of amateur dramatic entertainment, popular among the nobility in 16th- and 17th-century England, which consisted of dancing and acting performed by masked players. |
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metatheatre |
a convenient name for the quality or force in a play which challenges theatre's claim to be simply realistic -- to be nothing but a mirror in which we view the actions and sufferings of characters like ourselves, suspending our disbelief in their reality. |
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dramatic irony |
a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character. |
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Intertextuality |
shaping of a text's meaning by another text |
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broadside ballad |
a single sheet of inexpensive paper printed on one side, often with a ballad, rhyme, news and sometimes with woodcut illustrations |
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ephemera |
collectible memorabilia, typically written or printed ones, that were originally expected to have only short-term usefulness or popularity. |
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charivari |
a cacophonous mock serenade, typically performed by a group of people in derision of an unpopular person or in celebration of a marriage |
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miscegenation |
the interbreeding of people considered to be of different racial types. |
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Ira Aldridge |
American and later British stage actor and playwright who made his career largely on the London stage and in Europe, especially in Shakespearean roles. first black actor in Othello role |
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20th c. Shakespearean actors |
James Earl Jones Ira Aldridge Paul Robeson |
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Barbary |
region N Africa extending from Egypt to the Atlantic |
