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43 Cards in this Set
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Who was the center of the renaissance?
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Italy
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The only Italian Renaissance theatrical form that survived.
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Opera
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No script, totally improv.
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Comedia dell' Arte
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Short pieces, full length plays, often required spectaucular scenic effects. Less about acting, more about special effects.
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Intermezzi (Comedia dell' Arte)
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Short comic pieces, subject matter is romance, fantasy, mythical.
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Pastoral (Comedia dell' Arte)
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What are stock characters?
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Stereotypes
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What are five examples of stock characters?
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Pantalone (misery, old man)
Dottore (foolish scholar) Capitano (cowardly, braggart soldier) Zenn/Harlequin (smart servant) Young lovers. |
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Dominated dramatic theater for 200 years
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The Neoclassical Ideals
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Verisimilitude
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Drama should be "True to life".
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What are the three unities?
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Time, Place, Action
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Groove System
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Method of scene shifting.
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Painted stage, groove system, straight audience rows, pole and chariot.
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Teatro Olimpico
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Public Opera houses. Designed with "pit, boxes, and galleries".
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Teatro Farnese
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Master of the rebels
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Ultimate art critique. (not a fan of Shakespeare)
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Four theaters in Shakespeare's time
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The Swen, The Globe, The Rose, The Theater
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A theater outside, audience dirt floors, outside city limits, musicians sat at the top, back tiring house.
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The Globe Theater
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Owned his own company. Tragedies. Plays consisted of Doctor Faus Tus, Tamburlaine, Edward II. "Might Line"
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Christopher Marlowe
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Pierre Corneille and Jean Rocine
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French. Did Tragedies.
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Did comedies. Truth. Tartuffe was banned. Deus Ex Machina endings.
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Moliere
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Who wrote in Rhyme?
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Moliere
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Who was buried at night with the king's blessing?
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Moliere
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What performance did Moliere collapse and die in?
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The Imaginery Invalid
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During the restoration drama. Made fun of social conventions. Stereotypical names.
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Comedy of Manners
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When did directors come about?
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During the Restoration.
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What are the three rules for actors?
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Be on time.
Know the written lines. Act - don't just recite. |
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What are the four types of written theater?
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Drame, Ballad/Comic drama, Sentimental Comedy, Well-made Play
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Type of Written Theater:
Bourgesis/ Domestic Tragedy. Middle Class. Sentimental and Melodramatic. A. Drame B. Ballad/Comic Drama C. Sentimental Comedy D. Well-made play |
Drame
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Type of Written Theater:
Satrical parodies of Opera. Modern songs inserted. Scene changes (Intermissions). A. Drame B. Ballad/Comic Drama C. Sentimental Comedy D. Well-made play |
Ballad/Comic Drama
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Type of Written Theater:
Middle class morality play. Comedies of manners. School for Scandal. A. Drame B. Ballad/Comic Drama C. Sentimental Comedy D. Well-made play |
Sentimental Comedy
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Type of Written Theater:
Builds to a climax. Numerous Plots/Contrived Climaxes. Crisis Drama/ Foreshadowing/ No loose ends. Deus Ex Machina endings. Heavily influenced realism. A. Drame B. Ballad/Comic Drama C. Sentimental Comedy D. Well-made play |
Well-made play (Big deal)
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A theater during the restoration realistic period
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Dury Lane Theater
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What are the three old price riots?
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Covent Garden, Hermani, NY Astor Place Theater.
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Which riot was the following scenario:
Raised the prices, poor couldn't afford to go. Interupted the performances outside the theater. Very violent. |
Covent Garden
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Which riot was the following scenario:
Comedie Francaise. Play by Victor Hugo. Started fired outside the theater every night. (Neoclasses). Trashed the theater during shows. (Romanticism). |
Hermani
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Which riot was the following scenario:
Nationalism. William Macready (English) / Edwin Forrest (American). 1500 people mobbed opening night. Upset that one got the role over the other. |
NY Astor Place Theater
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What is theatrical realism?
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Everything onstage is made to resemble everyday life.
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What is the purpose of drama?
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To call the audience's attention to social problems and MAKE them think about them.
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Who was the father of realism?
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Henrik Ibsen
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Who were the pioneers?
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August Strindberg (Sweden) and Henrik Ibsen (Norwegian)
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Who were the seats on the stage for?
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Wealthy people bought them for social status.
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Did neoclasses mix tragedy and comedy?
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False.
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Describe a typical renaissance theater.
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Enter above. Enter below. Was raised. (Think Globe Theater).
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How have women changed since the plays we've read? Use names and why.
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Antigone, Ophelia (Hamlet), Elmire (Tartuffe), Nora (A Doll's House)
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