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U6 L5 Elizabethan Drama Flashcards

1
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Where did English drama originate from?

A

Middle Age church plays

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What was the purpose of Church plays?

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educate people on Latin liturgy

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What is liturgy?

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forms of ritual or public worshup

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How were the lines of Church plays delivered?

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chanted or sung

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What led to the church forbidding plays on church property?

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1-plays became elaborate/humorous, no longer educated worship
2-transferred outdoors
3-audience lost dignity, destroyed church property

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6
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After Church plays, where did plays find new support?

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town authorities who used trade guilds and dramatic companies

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What were the characteristics of Mystery Play production and what they were based on?

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  • Scripture
  • secularized
  • dramatized plan of salvation in Old and New testaments
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What were the wagons where Mystery plays were performed called?

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pageants

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What did the first, second, and third wagon portray in Mystery plays?

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1-creation
2-fall of angels
3-fall of man

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10
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What were Miracle Plays based on?

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  • NOT SCRIPTURE

- lives of Saints and Mary

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When were Morality plays developed?

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Late Middle Ages

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What did Morality Plays portray/perform?

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  • dramatized allegory
  • personified abstract virtue and vices (eg. Mercy and Shame)
  • competed to win souls
  • BASICALLY DRAMATIZED SERMONS
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13
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Where were Morality Plays performed?

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  • inner courtyard of inns
  • three sides of apartments surrounded
  • balconies for rich, unroofed inn yard for poor
  • stage: sawhorses supported platform, curtain behind scaffold hid actors
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14
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What is a scaffold?

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temporary wooden stage

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15
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Is the exact definition of Interlude known?

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no

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16
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Where might have Interludes originated?

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  • Henry VIII reign

- brief skit btw banquet courses

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What are interludes?

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brief play btw events of dramatic performance, entertainment, or feast

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18
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Some interludes developed from and resembled what kind of play?

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morality plays

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19
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What are the characteristics of interludes?

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  • primarily to amuse
  • educational interludes to teach moral
  • everyday details and realistic approach
  • comic elements to amuse and not instruct have recognizable value
20
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What is an allegory?

A

story where people, things, and happenings have another meaning

21
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What does secularized mean?

A

deprived of religious character or significance

22
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What did the first Elizabethan playhouses resemble?

A

innyards

23
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Who were the groundlings in Elizabethan playhouses?

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  • paid one penny to occupy open yard
  • aka stinkards
  • loud and raucous
24
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Where would the more sophisticated people be in Elizabethan playhouses?

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seated in galleries

25
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What were the characteristics of Elizabethan Playhouse stages?

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  • three-sided
  • jutted halfway into the audience
  • meaning actors and audience physically close and got emotionally involved
26
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How did the groundlings/audience get physically involved with the actors in Elizabethan Playhouses?

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they would:

  • boo
  • applaud
  • throw vegetables/fruits
  • jump on and off the stage edge
27
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What were the characteristics of Elizabethan Playhouse theaters?

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  • 8 sided building
  • unroofed yard in stage front
  • 2-3 floors of gallaries
28
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What did Elizabethan Playhouses not have?

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  • curtain to mark end of scenes or acts
  • printed programs of time and place of each scene for audience
  • props for setting on stage
29
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How did the Elizabethan Playhouse audience know what setting or scene the actors were in?

A

playwrights descriptions through character dialogue

30
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What did the trap door in the stage provide and entrance for?

A

ghosts and evil spirits

31
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What did the trap in the canopy over the stage provide an entrance for?

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(called the ‘heavens’)

lower angels and good spirits

32
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Was there any artificial light in Elizabethan Playhouses?

A

no, has to use natural light so plays were performed in afternoon

33
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When was the first English Playhouse built? And by who? What was it called?

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  • 1576
  • Elizabethan actor, James Burbage
  • The Theatre
34
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Which playhouse do most people associate Shakespeare with? When was it built?

A
  • the Globe

- 1599

35
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What were the plays of Shakespeare that were first performed in the Globe?

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  • Hamlet
  • Macbeth
  • King Lear
36
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Did women/actresses play a part in Elizabethan plays?

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no, used boys whose voices were not deep

37
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Did actors have a good reputation?

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no

38
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What did some local laws classify actors as? What does it mean?

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vagabonds, shiftless, idle or disreputable person

39
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Because of actors’ poor reputation at the time, they formed groups that were organized under who?

A

patronage of a member of nobility

40
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What word best describes the costumes in Elizabethan theater?

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anachronistic, out of proper historical time

41
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What was the renaissance belief that the characters and plots of Elizabethan plays reflected?

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human beings are exciting subjects for close examination

42
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How were Elizabethan plays’ characters and plots more realistic than past plays?

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  • no personifications of single personalities

- portrayed real life people and conflicts

43
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Who ordered the playhouses to be closed and when?

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Puritans, middle of 17th century

44
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When were playhouses reopened?

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end of 17th century

45
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How did playhouses after the 17th century differ from ones before it?

A
  • building rectangular and roofed
  • artificial lighting
  • movable scenery
  • women on stage
  • stage receded into wall

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