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Teatro Olimpico
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N Italy, contained flying machines and trap doors
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Teatro Farnese
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in Parma, 1st Proscenium
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Commedia dell'arte
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Travelling troupes, stock characters, improv
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Pantalone
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CA, merchant, miser
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Arleccino
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CA, comic servant, often drives narrative
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Capitano
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braggart, coward
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Dottore
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know-it-all bore
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Zanni
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comic male servant
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Brighella
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servant, looks out for himself
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Innamorata
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young lovers
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Lazzi
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Comic bit done over and over (slip on banana peel)
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Intermezzi
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short plays between acts
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Pastoral
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play at end of performance, romantic, happy ending
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Nicola Sabbatini
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1574-1654, Manual for constructing theatrical scenes and machines
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Giacomo Torelli
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Pole and Chariot system
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Scaliger and Castelvetro
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scholars, translated Neoclassical rules
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3 Unities of Neoclassical theatre
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Time, Place, Action
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Andrea Palladio
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designed Teatro Olimpico, influenced by Roman architecture
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Neoclassical Rules
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Decorum- act in certain way on stage
Versimilitude- true to life 3 Unities Genre- comedy or tragedy |
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Dengaku Noh
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Shinto Noh
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Sarugaku Noh
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Buddhism
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Kanami
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started Noh Drama
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Zeami Motokiyo
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Son of Kanami, made Noh better, 200 plays
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Yugen
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Graceful elegance, subtle mystery
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Shite
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Lead actor Noh, spirit or ghost or God
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Waki
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secondary actor Noh
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Tsure
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companion to shite
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Kyogen
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comic figure Noh
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Phantasmal
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Part 1- Waki journey to sacred site, meet with local person who conveys legend
Part 2- local person revealed as Shite, legend re-enacted |
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Present Existence
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Realistic narrative and characters
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Bunraku
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puppets, Neo-Confucanism influence, Joruri text
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Chikamatsu Monzaemon
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Bunraku and Kabuki, wrote double suicides
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Kabuki
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Dance and music, 40-60 actors, 14-16 hours, women and boys eventually banned
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Okuni of Izumo
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lady who started Kabuki
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Onnagata
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man who plays female role Kabuki
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Christopher Marlowe
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iambic pentameter
Cambridge University, Dr. Faustus was best play, Atheist, assassinated |
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University Wits
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Thomas Kyd, John Lyly, Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe
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Ralph Roister Doister
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written by Nicholas Udall, first comedy in English
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The Burbage Family
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Involved with Lord Chamberlain's Men
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Theatres in North London
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The Theatre, The Curtain
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Theatres in S London
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The Globe, The Rose, The Swan
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Philip Henslowe
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Big player in Lord Admiral's Men, wrote Henslowe's business diaries
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Blackfriars
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First indoor theatre
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tiring House
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where plot for play was posted
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Sharing plan
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apprentice actor paid for one or two shows, "cameo"
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English performance day
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2PM curtain, plot posted in Tiring house, prompter in lines forgotten, Yard: groundlings, Best seat in house- 2nd tier on House Left, concessions- food, ale, prostitutes, bucket or river for bathroom, Jig at end of play
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John Webster
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made intelligent observations about life and politics, collaborated with others such as Thomas Dekker and John Fletcher, introduced black comedies and melodramas themes: misuse of power, status of women, cruelty, corruption, revenge
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Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
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credited with tragicomedy (serious play with happy ending), linked to 52 play, 9 they collaborated together with
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Ben Jonson
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satirical plays and "Comedy of Humour," satirized other playwrights, cowrote Isle of Dogs, worked with Lord Admirals Men, performed at the Rose under Henslowe
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Comedy of Humours
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focused on personality flaws, belief that imbalance of bodily fluids led to erratic behavior
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