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Golden Ages types of theatre |
- Freestanding - Professional players - Paying audiences - Expensive plays with complexity |
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Audience of Golden Age |
Not poor or Very rich Mostly Male Educated enough to understand jokes |
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Practices of Golden Age |
Small properties Columns and doors suggested places Costuming was more important than scenery Contemporary dress Masks were rarely used |
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Spanish Golden Age |
Latin music dramas Religious plays Comedies and farces |
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William Shakespeare |
A popular playwright of the northern renaissance and portrayed personality and human emotion into timeless plays |
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Italian Renaissance Artists |
Renaissance painters created realistic scenes and images. The painters used prospective to make their painting more lifelike. |
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Famous Renaissance Artists |
Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rafael and Titian |
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Neoclassicism |
Covers the period from the end of the Renaissance to the culmination of the French revolution and the beheading of Louis the XVI. |
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Jeuv du Paumes |
Tennis courts that have been converted to stages. |
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Commedie Francaise |
Frances first national theater |
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Neoclassical playwrights |
Jean Batiste Moliere Tartuffe and The Missanthrope, Jean Racine Andromache and Phaedra, and Pierre Corneille Le Cid |
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Neoclassical Rules of Drama |
-Verismilitude -Purity of the Dramatic Form - Five Act Form - Decorum -Purpose |
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Verismilitude |
the appearance of truth or that the play is believable |
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Decorum |
provides the audience with a sense of propriety and fair play |
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Romanticism |
Refers to love and sexual attraction |
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Brecht and Artaud |
These two theorist operated from quite different sets of assumptions about eh nature of theatre and the purpose of art, but they shared a disdain for Realism. |
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Greek theatre |
began with festivals honoring gods. |
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City Dionysia |
A festival honoring a god named, Dionysus. |
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Theatron |
Theatre buildings |
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The orchestra |
the part of the stage where the dancing happens |
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The skene |
a large rectangular building situated behind the orchestra used as a backstage. |
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Eccyclema |
a low platform that rolled on wheels and could be pushed on stage to reveal an interior or some off stage scene. |
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Mechane |
a crane made of wood beams and pulley systems, the device was used to lift an actor in the air. |
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Aristotle |
Greek philosopher |
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Sophocles |
one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays survived. |
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Vitruvius |
Theatre architecture |
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Horace |
-like a Roman Aristotle -Important to Renaissance -Advocated keeping tragedy and comedy distinct -Advocated a unity of time and place -claimed that drama needed to entertain and educate |
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Seneca |
Playwright in Rome |
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Pantomime |
Serious, silent |
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Mime |
Popular, no masks, women performers. |
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Traits of Medieval Theatre |
-Simultaneous -Emblematic -Environmental |
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Hroswitha |
female playwright patterned work after terence empasized the chasity of women |
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Pageant Wagons |
a movable stage or cart used to accommodate mystery and miracle plays. |
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Mystery Plays |
biblical sources |
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Miracle plays |
Saints' lives |
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Morality plays |
allegories |
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Master of secrets |
person responsible for special effects |
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Commercial theatre |
Theatre performed by and for members of a given community in a city/town. Usually amateur, sometimes with professional directors, designers, business staff. |
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Professional Groups |
-Had to perform often -Had to have a large stock of plays to sustain audience interest -Acting was not considered acceptable -Because acting did not fit into guild system, actors were considered "Masterless men" |
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Actor-Manager |
A starring actor who is head and nominal artistic director of a company |
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Gentlemanly Melodrama |
Later melodrama for middle class -class audiences with upper-middle class subjects and settings |
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Melodrama |
Literally "Music Drama." Kind of drama associated with a simplified moral universe, a set of stock characters, rapid turns in the dramatic action, and a dual issue ending leading form of drama throughout the 19th century. |
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Producers |
Executive who arranges financing and oversees a commercial production. |
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Musical Theatre |
it combines both art and music, which results in a story with greater emotional impact. |
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Dialogue |
the spoken lines of a play or musical show |
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Vaudeville |
an early staged variety show that included songs dances and skits |
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Librettist |
the person who writes the text for a musical |
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Libretto |
the dialogue and/or lyrics for a musical work |
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Post-modernism |
-set changes in the 1950s with underlying assumptions -objectivity and truth -Concept of absolutes -suspicion of progress and personal identity Plays were a form of mixed media |
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Venues (1950-2000) |
Dinner theatres Community and Educational theatre off-Broadway |
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Absurdists |
Dramatic unity Circular story line Street theatres and Guerilla theatres Political theatre Looked back at avant-guarde in Europe Embodied politics and art |
