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Who is Aristotle and what is the main argument of the Poetics?
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Greek philosopher, student of Plato; mimesis is a natural occupation of people, characterizes tragedy
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Euripides
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Author of the Bacchae; Nietzche didn't like his tragedic style
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Jocasta
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Wife of Oedipus, begs him not to seek the truth of his origins, hangs herself
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Tiresias
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Blind seer; tries to avoid Oedipus' questions regarding his origins, is the first to disclose that he is the harbinger of the plague; also companion of Cadmus in the Bacchae
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Polybus
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Oedipus' adoptive father
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Shepherd
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Rescued baby Oedipus from the mountainside; confirms king's fears of his origins
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Creon
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Oedipus' brother in law and uncle; does not wish to be king, represents reason
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Pentheus
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King of Thebes, cousin of Dionysus, killed by his mother Agave
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Cadmus
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Originator of the royal house of Thebes in The Bacchae; elderly father of Agave and Semele
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Semele
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Mother of Dionysus, killed by Zeus' appearance as a lightening bolt
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The Bacchae
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The women of Thebes, made to celebrate the rites of Dionysus under the influence of violent and naturalistic ecstasy
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William Finley
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Played Dionysus in Dionysus in '69
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Richard Schechner
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Director of Dionysus in '69, originator of The Performance Group
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Antonin Artaud
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French theatre theorist responsible for the concept of the Theatre of Cruelty
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Friedrich Nietzche
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Turn of the century theorist, The Birth of Tragedy, the synthesis of the Apollonian/Dionysian IS tragedy
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G. B. Shaw
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Wrote Major Barbara; communist British playwright; author of "Ideals and Idealists"
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The Fabian Society
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Communists, but not revolutionary (believed in gradual social change)
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Undershaft
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Father of Major Barbara, factory owner with a highly cynical view of human behavior -- by manufacturing arms, he is able to create a utopian society
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Steven
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Major Barbara's fiance, academe and Greek scholar -- he is the villan of the play, because he is the Idealist who encourages others to seek goals that won't make them happy
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Lomax
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fiance of Major Barbara's sister; speaks in the most elevated language, but is incapable of intelligent communication; doesn't want to be faced with the ugliness of life
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"No More Masterpieces"
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Chapter of "The Theater and its Double" by Artaud; the classics are dead, cannot be replicated because they no longer pertain to present society
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Henry VIII
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1534 establishes himself as head of English Church via Act of Supremacy; bans the cycle dramas
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Everyman
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Allegorical representation of all human beings who will someday face death
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Fellowship
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First friend to whom Everyman appeals to accompany him to death; explains that he is only able to share in life's pleasures with Everyman
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Kinship
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refuses outright to go to death with Everyman
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Cousin
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has a cramp in his toe, and therefore cannot come with Everyman into death
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Goods
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laughs at Everyman's expectation that he will be able to bring them into death; explains that they will be more of a hindrance than a help to him there
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Good Deeds
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(female) initially too weak from neglect to accompany Everyman, is strengthened by Confessional and ascends with Everyman to heaven
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Knowledge
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accompanies Everyman all the way to the grave, but is left behind when Everyman's soul leaves his body
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Beauty, 5 wits, discretion
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summoned by Knowledge and Good Deeds, run away when they hear that they are going to the grave
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Confession
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represents the ORDER of the priesthood, strengthens Everyman's good deeds
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Doctor
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recites the Everyman epilogue, represents the scholar; conveys the moral
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Kenneth Burke
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author of "Identification" - promotes concept of Consubstantiality
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Head of the 12
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leaders of the 12 major guilds of York, responsible for electing the mayor
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Noah's wife
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comedic, argumentative (and often misguided) character
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Robert Deveroux
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Earl of Essex, tried to unseat the queen after being exiled; he returned before being invited back and allegedly paid off the Lord Chamberlain's Men to put on a production of "Richard II"
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Richard Burbage
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leading actor of the Lord Chamberlain's men; friend of the Earl of Essex
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Marlowe
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author of "Dr. Faustus," contemporary playwright of Shakespeare
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Edward Alleyn
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leading actor of Marlowe's company, originated the role of Faustus, wearing a large wooden cross on his chest; unusually tall
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Will Kemp
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comedic actor of the King's men ("enter Will Kemp") known for playing Peter, Falstaff and Bottom
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Mephistopheles
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"Why this is hell, nor am I out of it"
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Helen
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appears to Dr. Faustus at the end of the play; it is upon seeing her that he becomes closest to being glutted
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Henslow
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diarist who keeps records of expenses of Marlowe's company
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Bowdler
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Made Shakespeare a Disney Channel Original Movie; "Bowdlerized"
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William Prynne
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acting "unmans, unChristians, unmakes;" compare to Sydney
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Robert Greene
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deeply critical of Shakespeare; "tiger's heart in a player's hide" wearing "our feathers"
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Hemings, Condell & Jaggard
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publishes Shakespeare's first folio in 1623
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Ben Johnson
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famous playwright who publishes his own "Works" in 1616 (falling into print), wrote "Masque of Queens"
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Bernardo
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guard in Hamlet, "who's there?"
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Ronaldo
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Polonius' servant, speaks untruths to provoke a response
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Polonius
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elderly aristocrat, father of Ophelia and Laertes; Hamlet characterizes him through the book he carries
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'Swounds
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By his wounds
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Sydney
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poet - art is the sublimation of desire (vs. Prynne's concept of the monstrous theatre)
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Tenant vs. Jacoby
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2 performances of Hamlet in the late 20th/early 21st centuries
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Andrea Palladio
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Italian architect, designed Teatro Olimpico of Venice
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Pedro Calderón de la Barca
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Wrote "Life is a Dream"
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Indigo Jones
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theatrical designer for "Masque of Queens," among other masques; collaborated with Ben Johnson
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James I
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ruling absolute monarch of England, in power when the "Masque of Queens" was written
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Charles I
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son of James I, absolute monarch who refused to call parliament, was executed by parliament and succeeded by Cromwell
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Commonwealth of England
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bans theatrical production
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Charles II
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son of Charles I, reinstated in 1660, reinstates theatre performance
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Turner
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author of "Social Dramas," anthropologist who characterized dramas as undergoing breach, crisis, redress, and either reintegration or schism; social drama and stage drama feed into each-other in an infinite loop
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Chariot & pole
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drives scenes back and forth on poles
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Vincenzo Scamozzi
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finished Andrea Palladio's work on the Teatro Olimpico
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Ferdinand & Isabella (the Catholic kings)
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initiate the Spanish Golden age
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Herod
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characterized as in a constant state of rage in cycle dramas
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Divine Narcissus
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Sor Juana submits this play to a contest in Spain for a religious drama ("Autos sacrimentales") about colonialism
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Phillip IV of Spain
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builds Palacio del Buen Retiro modeled on Teatro Olympico
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Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz
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Daughter of a Spaniard and a Mexican, was a nun who wrote plays, poetry, letters; woman of words; all of her books were burned
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Hotel de Bourgogne
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built in 1548 in France, indoor building, modeled off of an indoor tennis court
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Louis XIV
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The Sun King, under his rule, theatre becomes extraordinary
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Palais Cardinal
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built in 1641, King and Wueen sit alon in chairs downstage, 2 galleries along the sides; proscenium structure
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Salle de Machine
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constructed under Louis XIV as a room for ballet performance -- contained machinery to raise and lower
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Jean Baptise Moliere
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author of "Tartuffe," considered a patron of French comedic theatre
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Scenarii
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Italian improvised scenes, based upon a set of stock characters
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Ammorato
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young lovers of scenarii
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Pantalone
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comical old man of scenarii
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Dottore
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comical, stupid doctor of scenarii
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Arlecchino
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Harlequin character, wore motley because he was poor in scenarii
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Pierre Corneille
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playwright of "Le Cid," neoclassical theatric icon
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William Dryden
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rewrites "The Tempest" in the 19th c. as a musical ballet
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Cardinal Richelieu
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patron of the Palais Cardinal, built in 1641 as a result of cardinal's desire to control the practice of arts/sciences
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"Le Cid"
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Georges de Scudery argued that this play by Corneille was unrealistic, appealed to Cardinal who sided with Scudery
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Jean Racine
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known for tragedy, applied Greek drama to uphold set structures of French theatre; the three unities
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Northrop Frye
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wrote "The Argument of Comedy" in the early 1950s that comedy has 1 argument, 1 plot that is derived from ritual: the reknitting of society and rebirth in spring; can be represented by different social classes
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Gilbert Murray
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famous classicist from turn of 20th century upon whom Steven is based
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Orgon
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protagonist of "Tartuffe" develops from a soppy, enamored old man into a disillusioned and sober figure; W. describes him as having a single animating character principle
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Tartuffe
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when he enters Molliere's play, his performance has already been accepted
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Elmire
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wife of Orgon, seduced by Tartuffe
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Sir William Davenant
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claims to be illegit. child of Shakespeare, head of Duke's co., 1 on 2 sharers to receive patent from Charles II
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Betterton
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under this actor, the King's Co. and the Duke's Co. merge into the United Co., featuring actress Anne Bracegirdle
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Christopher Wren
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designs Theatre Rural Drury Lane; pit is series of flat, backless benches
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John Dryden
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(1631-1700) poet laureate, wrote original tragedies and tragicomedies, spectacular dimension introduced by scenery
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Thomas Otway
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playwright for those of Neoclassical tastes, write "Venice Preserved" (tragedy)
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William Wycherly
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comic playwright, wrote "The Country Wife"
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Sir George Etherege
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originator of "fop" character, "The Man of Mode," "stop my vitals"
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William Congreve
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interested in how plays will look on the page (Restoration), gives play in the book its modern shape
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Nell Gwynn
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actress, mistress of King Charles II, considered the "flirt" to Bracegirdle's "wit"
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Thomas Betterton
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star of english stage, ugly but elegant and graceful; gesture in this period is formalized (think Hamlet & skull)
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Charles Macklin
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humanized Shylock
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David Garrick
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believed that the role of the actor was as a public figure
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Aphra Behn
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author of "The Rover," famous in her time and rediscovered in the 1970s
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Edie Sedgwick
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author of "Between Men," Gender and sexuality act like ideology by confirming certain kinds of social relations
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Cavaliers
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supporters of Charles who were in Italy in exile during the Commonwealth
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Cits
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not aristocrats, but upper-middle class tradespeople wealthy enough to attend the theatre
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Don Pedro
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Spanish brother of Florinda, in love with Angelica
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Belvile
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the only decent Englishman of the Cavaliers, in love with Florinda
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Hellena
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friend of Florinda, flirtatious and manipulative; marries Wilmore
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Willmore
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the Rover, promiscuous; falls in love with every woman he sees
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Angelica
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prostitute of "The Rover" who advertises with a poster of herself; ruins her campaign by falling for Willmore
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Antonio
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Pedro wants Florinda to marry this Italian aristocrat
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Blunt
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stupid Englishman who tries to ravish many women
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Restoration
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the period beginning with the reinstatement of Charles II to the English throne, extending to end of 17th century
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Conquest of Granada
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1492, the Catholic monarchs expel the Moors and the Jews from Spain.
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Academe Francaise
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chartered in 1637 by Cardinal Richelieu to bring sciences and arts under gov. control
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Comedie Francaise
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new version of Moliere's company, patronized by the King and featuring Mademoiselle Champmesle
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Raked stage
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where downstage upstage terminology comes from
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Sociéteres
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12 main actors of the Comedie Francaise; new members could be recruited only after retirement of old members
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William Davenant & Thomas Killigrew
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received patent from Charles II to reopen the King's Co.
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Patent theatres/Theatres royal
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held the patent of the king of England
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proscenium
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stage with a large, arched frame surrounding it
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auto sacramentale
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allegorical religious dramas in Spain (although Sor Juana writes one)
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Corral
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public theatre of the Spanish Golden Age
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Comedy of Manners
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contemporary Restoration dramas in which witty aristocrats, city dupes and dandies and dull country gentlemen are engaged in an adventure of sexual intrigue
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Basil
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King of Poland in Life is a Dream, father of Segismund
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Segismund
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Prince of Poland; his father hears a prophecy that his son will become a bloody tyrant, so he is imprisoned for the majority of his young life
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Clarion
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comical servant in Life is a Dream
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Rosaura
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a lady of the Polish court, is desired by Segismund
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Stella
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Princess, engaged to Astolfo
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Clotaldo
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old man who guards Segismund for the majority of his life
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