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32 Cards in this Set
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Natural Fool [Costard] |
A character that tries to be smart , but is actually stupid. |
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Artificial Fool [Touchstone] |
Plays stupid , but is smarter than most characters. This fool i is the only one who can speak the truth. |
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Lord's Room |
Where noblemen would sit in the theater. |
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Doubling |
Using one actor to portray more than one character in a single play, usually to convey some sort of connection between the two characters. |
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Examples of Doubling |
1. Oberon / Theseus 2. Helena / Titania 3. Hippolyte / Titania 4. Actors / Faeries 5.Puck / Phiostrate |
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Pageant Wagon |
A stage on wheels , which traveled from inn to inn. |
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Hell mouth |
Grand sets with gruesome displays |
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Tiring House |
Area behind main stage where actors change and aristocrats enter. On pageant wagons it was separated by a curtain. In the Globe there were 2 doors in the back wall of the stage that led to the there. |
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Apron
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Front of the Stage. |
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Dumb Show |
Silent Show |
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Players |
Actors inside the play ( wasn't a respectable profession) |
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Liberty |
Former church lands which allowed performances outside of London city limits. |
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The Globe Theater |
The theater of Lord Chamberlain's men |
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The Pit ( aka Yard ) |
Standing area in front of the stage |
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Cellarage |
The area under the stage ( the globe had one trapdoor on the stage ) |
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The Heavens |
"Roof" of the GT. ( Includes one trapdoor through which players could be lowered onto the stage ) |
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Flag |
Flew above the GT to signify the type of play being put on: Black for tragedy , white for comedy , red for history |
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Comedy |
The disruption and recollection of social order. |
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Farce |
Exaggerating the ridiculous through ; situational humor , physical humor , fast characters , quick pace. |
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Bathos |
The common and colloquial juxtaposed with the eloquent. |
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Cuckold |
Fear over a relationship because the character might cheat or be cheated on. |
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Holiday Season |
Time for misruling , social norms are flipped to keep peace between social classes. |
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Renaissance Pastoral |
A shepherd's way of life ; often a way of life chosen by people as an escape from the corruption of society. ( As you like it ) |
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Malapropism [Custer and Professor Holofernes] |
Mistaken use of word in place of a similar sounding one. |
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Malcontent [Jaques] |
Someone who has fallen from a higher position to a lower one. Sometimes for the better as they rally against the court. |
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Misrule |
The world's code of social order are flipped. |
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Exogamy [Oberon's form of punishment and discipline for Titania = Extreme exogamy] |
Enforcement of marrying outside of your clan [family] |
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Endogamy |
Enforcement to marry inwardly [a human within your social class] |
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Minstrals |
Wandering Players |
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Ganymede |
Renaissance term for a feminine male sexual partner ( possible gender fluidity) |
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Primogeniture |
The state of being the firstborn and inheriting wealth |
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Renaissance Melancholy |
Another term for pensive. |
