Worksheet 8

Question 0

de’ Medici family

Answer 0

Prosperous and powerful Italian Family that financed the artists and scientists of the Renaissance (commissioned and employed Michelangelo, Donatello, Galileo)

Question 1

The foundations of modern theatre are…

Answer 1

Commercial theatre
Theatre spaces which were completely redesigned
Use of women

Question 2

Verisimilitude

Answer 2

Appearing to be truthful, truth seeming

Question 3

Types of productions are

Answer 3

Commedia erudita
Tragicomedy 
Intermezzi
Commedia dell' arte
Drama in Musica

Question 4

What is drama in musica?

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It evolved out of the intermezzi and Greek tragedy, an attempt to recreate the link between speech and music as was done in Greek tragedy. evolved into opera

Question 5

What is tragicomedy?

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Ends happily but raises complex questions

Sends conflicting messages because of both elements comedy and tragedy

Question 6

What is commedia dell’ arte?

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Improvised performance within a rehearsal framework

Example: whose line is it anyway

Question 7

What are the 3 categories of characters?

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Lovers
Masters
Servants

Question 8

What are lovers?

Answer 8

Most realistic
Young and handsome, did not wear masks
Were usually dressed in the latest fashions
Children of the master characters

Question 9

What are masters?

Answer 9

Hypocrites
Pantalone: carries a purse, bent over to protect it
Dirty old men
Dottore: coward but tried to hide behind his power
Capitano: arrogant, inside timid, pretend to be more powerful then he actually is

Question 10

What are servants?

Answer 10

Also called zanni
Lowest of the social class,
most known was Harlequin
crafty, stupid, witty

Question 11

What is lazzi?

Answer 11

Comic business

Question 12

What are 3 types of lazzi?

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Fight
Fear
Sack

Question 13

What is fight lazzi?

Answer 13

2 servants who are threatening to fight each other, master tries to stop but gets beat up

Question 14

What is fear lazzi?

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Characters who are scared

Question 15

What is sack lazzi?

Answer 15

Hide in a sack

Question 16

Clear design of actor area

Answer 16

Actors stayed on stage and audience stayed on the floor

The two did not mix

Question 17

Clear design of audience areas

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Box seats: (sky box) well to do sat here, expensive seating
Pit: cheaper seats down in front
Galleries: least expensive, nose bleed

Question 18

Development of the proscenium stage

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Developed to frame the stage picture

Question 19

Government controlled

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plays had to be approved to be produced

Question 20

Cardinal Richelieu

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chief minister of France, set up the French academy

Question 21

The unities of the French Renaissance was

Answer 21

Time: has to take place within 24 hours
Place: one location
Action: had to have only one plot, one storyline

Question 22

Poetic justice

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Punish the wicked

Reward the good

Question 23

The French Renaissance comic playwrite

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Moliere: wrote 12 syllables per line, two lines that rhyme at a time
Incorporated a voice of reasoning
Influenced by plays called slap sticky
Allowed women on stage

Question 24

Mousetrap effect

Answer 24

a character incriminates himself