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Exm 4 Flashcards

1
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Where the audience members stood

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Pit

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2
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Seating for upper class

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Boxes

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3
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Upper tiers with open seating

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Galleries

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4
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Method of scene shifting. (On and off stage)

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Groove system

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5
Q

Newer, innovative scene changing system

A

Pole-and-chariot

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6
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What place was the center of activity?

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Italy

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7
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What was the Italian renaissance period?

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A period of exploration and invention. Are treated subjects as human beings, rather than religious subjects 

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8
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Short pieces, depicting, mythological tails. Presented between the acts of bowling place. Often required spectacular scenic affects.

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Intermezzi

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9
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Short, ribald comic pieces. Subject matter is romance. Characters are Shepherd and mythological creatures.

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Pastoral

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10
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How was commedia dell arte performed?

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With no set text. Invented words and actions as they went along. (Just a scenario and improv)

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11
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Harlequins prop

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Slap stick

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12
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Italian critics formulated dramatic rules

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Neoclassical ideas

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13
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Drama should be “true to life” (plausible)

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Verisimilitude

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14
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Three unities of neoclassical ideals.

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  1. Unity of time
  2. Unity if place
  3. Unity of action
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15
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What is violence forbidden in neoclassical ideals?

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Yes

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16
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The chorus and supernatural characters were acceptable 

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False

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17
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Opposed to the soliloquy (long monologue)

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True

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18
Q

The oldest surviving theatre built during the renaissance

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Teatro olimpico in Vicenza

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19
Q

Who were intrigued by language

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The english

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20
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The two primary playwrights during the Elizabethan period

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Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare

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21
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Who created the “mighty line”

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Christopher Marlowe

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22
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Who perfected dramatic poetry?

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Marlowe

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23
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Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine, Edward II

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Marlowes works

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24
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▪ Senecan dramatic devices
▪ Platform stage
▪ Powerful dramatic verse
▪ Source material from English history, Roman history and
drama, and Italian literature
▪ Episodic plot structure with roots in medieval theatre

A

Shakespeare

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25
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 Romeo and Juliet
 Julius Caesar
 Hamlet
 Othello
 Macbeth
 King Lear

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Shakespeares tragedies

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26
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 The Comedy of Errors
 A Midsummer Night’s Dream
 As You Like It
 Twelfth Night

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Shakespeares comedies

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27
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Richard III
Henry IV
Henry V

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Shakespeares history

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28
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Who wrote the Spanish tragedy?

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Thomas kyd

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29
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Who wrote valpone, the alchemist

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Ben Johnson

30
Q

Who wrote trick to catch the old one?

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John middleton

31
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Private theatres

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Indoor space is, lit by candles in high windows. Open to general public but smaller, and therefore more expensive.

32
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Blackfriars

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Private

33
Q

The theatre

A

(Later the globe)

34
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The rose

A

Public

35
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The swan

A

Public

36
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Globe

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Public (Shakespeare)

37
Q

Rarely used painted scenery. The stage space did not represent a specific locale. Required rapid scene changes. Most costumes were simply contemporary clothing, reflective of social classes been depicted. If needed, they would ask people for certain costumes

A

The scenery and costumes in Elizabethan period 

38
Q

included Philip Henslowe
(manager); Edward Alleyn (tragic actor); Christopher
Marlowe (playwright)
 They generally resided in the Rose

A

Lord Admirals men

39
Q

under rule of Queen
Elizabeth and later known as King’s Men
when King James I took the thrown.
 -Shakespeare was a member
 -performed in the Theatre at first and later the Globe

A

Lord Chamberlins men

40
Q

companies made up entirely
of boys.
 It was unique then and would be today.

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Boys company

41
Q

elite members of the company;
received a percentage of the troupe’s profits as payment

A

Shareholders

42
Q

actors contracted for a specific period of time and salary

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Hirelings

43
Q

young performers training for the profession; were assigned to shareholders

A

Apprentices

44
Q

mocked contemporary types and
behaviors (Ben Johnson-Valpone)

A

Satiric comedy

45
Q

mild comedy of love and it’s follies (Shakespeare – As You Like It)

A

Romantic comedy

46
Q

London audience mirror of itself (Thomas Dekker – Shoemaker Holiday)

A

City comedy

47
Q

tragedy of the average citizen
(Arden of Fevershan -anonymous)

A

Domestic tragedy

48
Q

gaining revenge over one’s evil doer
(Thomas Kyd – Spanish tragedy)

A

Revenge tragedy

49
Q

had great vigor and focused on
Renaissance problem of aggressive individual behavior
with the Christian precept. Make the individual a villain
at some time a heroic figure. (Macbeth – Shakespeare)

A

Villain tragedy

50
Q

showed English history usually in a
favorable light (Shakespeare – Richard III)

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History plays

51
Q

The theatre after Elizabeth’s reign

A

Jacobean period

52
Q

Masques
▪ Featured at the court and not found in public or
private theatres ▪ They were mythological allegories intended to
praise the monarch

A

Jacobean period

53
Q

Both religious and secular forms of theater flourish during the inquisition

A

In the Spanish golden age

54
Q

Who adopted the techniques of medieval religious drama, and continue to produce religious drama throughout their era and beyond

A

Spain

55
Q

Full length, secular place that usually dealt with love and honor

A

Comedias

56
Q

Given credit for writing 1800 plays in several hundred shorter dramatic pieces

A

Lope de Vega

57
Q

Who hired a young play writers and takes their credit

A

Vega

58
Q

The writer of the sheep’s well

A

Lope de Vega

59
Q

Who wrote life is a dream

A

Calderon de la Barca

60
Q

The theaters in Spain

A

The corrales

61
Q

▪ Where nonreligious plays by writers like Lope de Vega and Calderón were staged
▪ Constructed in existing courtyards
▪ Open-air spaces with galleries and boxes
protected by a roof

A

The corrales

62
Q

compañías de parte

A

sharing companies, like those of
Elizabethan England

63
Q

▪ Acting troupes consisted of 16 to 20 performers
▪ Included women (although the church did not support this

A

Spanish acting companies

64
Q

French Renaissance theater didn’t peak until

A

The 17th century

65
Q

Why did France get into theatre late compared to other European countries

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Due to a religious Civil War, taking place in France between Catholics and Protestants

66
Q

French renaissance flourished under who

A

Louis XIV (14)

67
Q

Most important 17th-century French dramatists were

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▪ Molière, noted for his comedies
▪ Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine, both known for tragedy

68
Q

Who were the first European after the Romans to construct permanent theater buildings?

A

The french

69
Q

The first permanent theater name

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Hôtel de Bourgogne, completed in 1548

70
Q

Perspective painting

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Italy started it, French use it, Spanish, sorta use it, English do not use it 

71
Q

Theater production in France

A

Acting companies were organized under a sharing plan, and had women members who could become shareholders

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