Renaissance Theatre (I and II)

Public playhouse

Outdoor Theatre: Features of a ___ - Varied in size; Thrust stage - Contains the "pit", "tiring house", "the heavens", flag, machinery hut, musician's gallery, two playing levels, and discovery space.

Rose

Outdoor Theatre: ___ - Competitor of the globe

Globe

Outdoor Theatre: ___ - You had to learn a new way of acting here because of the way it was built

The Kings Men

Shakespeare was the resident playwright for

Shareholders

Shakespearean Acting Troupes: ____ - *Profits shared; Elite members; Most experienced - Democratic, self-governing

Apprentices

Shakespearean Acting Troupes: ____ - *Young performers training for the profession; Usually young boys played a women's roles

Hirelings

Shakespearean Acting Troupes: ____ - Actors hired for a specific period of time and for a specific salary; They played minor roles, or worked machinery

Autos

Spanish plays that dealt with the characteristics of the morality and cycle plays were called

Secular drama

____ flourished in Spain side by side with Italian operas

Commedia Dell' Arte

____ was composed of traveling troupes that improvised "scenarios" using stock characters

William Shakespeare

____: - Penned some 38 plays - Wrote tragedy, comedy, history - Actor and shareholder in Lord Chamberlain's Company - Became shareholder at the Globe Theatre - Left his family to start writing shows - **Actor, playwright, and sometimes director

Shakespearean Acting Troupes

____: - Troupes were all male, some specialized in particular types of roles - Large repertories (casts): a different show each play - Shareholders, Hirelings, and Apprentices

Acting Troupes

_____: - Lord Admiral's Men vs. Lord Chamberlin's Men

Verisimilitude

- "Truth seeming" - Could represent only what could be reasonably expected in real life

The Blackfriars

- A former monastery and converted in 1576, was England's first indoor playhouse

Decorum

- Characters were expected to display traits normally held by members of their class

Ben Jonson

- Considered the best after Shakespeare, but thought he was better - Wrote "Doctor Faustus"

French Academy

- Established by Cardinal Richelieu - A literary academy to maintain the purity of the French language and literature

Pre-Shakespearean Acting Troupes

- Many before 1570s, but little known about them - Acting companies had to have a license, requiring the patronage of a noble - By 1570, government decrees made acting more secure - Acting became a legal profession in the 1570s

The Three Unities

- Required a reasonable time - One room place or town - No sub-, counter-, or secondary plots

Neoclassicism

- Showed an interest in the ancient "rediscovered" roman classics more than the greek plays

Renaissance

- an awakening of the arts and learning in the western world, which occurred from the late fourteenth through the early seventeenth centuries

Masque

Another type of elaborate entertainment featured at court during the reign of James I and his successor Charles I was the ___

Purity of Genes

Comedy and Tragedy were not to be mixed - No element of one should be in the other

Yes

Did Spanish playwrights produce medieval dramas for a much longer period of time then their English counterparts?

- Indoor/Private Theatre - The Blackfiar Theatre

Elizabethan Theatre: ___ - Troupes did shows in winter - 1/4 -1/2 of a public theatre - Spectators sat in the pit, galleries, or private boxes - Stages were similar to public theatre - Ex: ___

Democratic; Self-governing

English acting troupes were ___ and ___ where the risks and profits were shared.

The Commedia Francise

Founded in 1680 as France's National Theatre and is still in existence today

The Puritans

In 1642, who outlawed all theatrical activity?

pit

In an Elizabethan Theater, the poorest patrons watched the performance from the ___

Renaissance movement

Influences of the ____ - Weakening church influence - Invention of the printing press - Nobility began to patronize arts

Giacomo Torelli

Neoclassicism in France: ___ - Who was hired to redesign the tennis courts into stages?

Pierre Corneille

Neoclassicism in France: ___ - wrote "Le Cid", a tragedy based on a Spanish play - told people to come see his show because the government didn't approve; **Broke the neoclassical ideals

True to life

One overriding concern of the neoclassicists was verisimilitude, which means -

priest

Spanish playwrights Lope De Vega and Calderon were both ___ before they became playwrights

Thrust

The Elizabethan theater was a ___ theater

Moliere

The Farcical comedies of ____ were heavily influenced by the comedies of the Commedia Dell' Arte

Chariot-and-Pole

The Italians invented a new system of changing scenery called the

Proscenium Theatre

The Teatro Farnese, built in Parma in 1618 is considered the first ________

Spanish

The ___ religious plays were banned in 1765 b/c they were said to be too carnival in spirit. Some of the dances and farces were considered objectionable, as well as performed by immoral actors

The Stuart Court Masque

Theater: ____ - Indigo Jones - Used Italian Staging - They were lavish and only lasted a couple of nights - Puritans revolved, Cut Charles I head off - After Puritans take over, the burn all theaters down - Theater is outlawed in London

Five Act Form

Theatre not only had to provide entertainment, but had to teach as well

Lazzi

This troupe of traveling actors used stock characters and ____, which were proven comic routines and bits

Theatre buildings

Until 1608, _____ were legal in the city limits of London, the center of theatre in England

Globe, Swan, Rose, and Fortune

What are the 4 most popular outdoor theatre?

Action, Time, and Place

What are the Neoclassicists' most famous mandate concerning the Three Unities:

Two different geographical locations

What did two doors in the tiring house in an Elizabethan outdoor theater represent?

Perspective

What is a method of drawing that creates the illusion of depth?

The Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Italy

What is the oldest surviving Renaissance theater?

Opera

What type of theater became popular during the Italian Renaissance and is still popular?

violated decorum

When Pierre Corneille wrote about a girl who married a man that killed her father, this ____ ____.

Puritans

Who though the official church of England adhered too closely to Catholicism?

Moliere

Who was denied the right to a christian burial because he was an actor?

- James Burbage - "The Theatre"

Who was the builder of the first theater in London? Called "___"?

Jean Racine

Who was the popular French Writer of tragedies, followed the neoclassical rules, and was the author of Phaedra?

Because of wars and internal strife

Why did the Renaissance not have much of an influence in England until the late 15th century?

Neoclassicism in France

_____ in _____: - 1550-1570 - Cardinal Richelieu became Chief Minister of France - Richelieu establish the French Academy - Tennis courts readapted into stages - "Le Cid" by Pierre Corneille - "Phaedra" by Jean Racine - Jean Baptiste Poquelin ("Moliere")