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Who was Serlio and what did he do?
A designer who usually constructed their stages and musical entertainments in large palace ballrooms or banquet halls.
Define meta-theatrical
Works that trigger audience awareness of the make believe quality of a performance, or the operations of dramatic invention, usually for the purpose of provoking audiences to re-access the processes by which they construct meaning.
Why was the theatre of Pompey built?
Highly visible platform where Pompey (and other rulers) could preside over the gathered populace, displaying authority.
Define high comedy
Derives from ideas & witty language (socially oriented critic would point out that these are the prerogatives of an economically privileged class.)
Define gestus
Expressive means an actor can employ, such as a way of standing, or moving, or a pattern of behavior that indicated to the audience the social position or condition of the character the actor is playing.
Who is Zeami, and why does he matter?
Son of Kan'ami, evolved noh theatre into a unique form of Japanese theatre & drama.
Define aesthetics of performance
Kinds of pleasure for particular audiences through dramatic & theatrical means.
Define pantomime
Solo, non speaking actor (mask w/closed mouth), who played all the roles in a lavishly staged myth or the re-staging of a drama.
Define low comedy
Derives from less refined selection than from fast developing events, and physical action, with the body being a major player. (ex. erect phallus)
Define ethnography
One of the primary research methods developed by anthropologists. Involves fieldwork usually carried out by living in the community that is the sit of research.
Who is Lope Felix de Vega Carpio (more commonly known as Lope de Vega)?
Prolific and renowned playwright of the golden age. More than 800 plays written
Define agonothetes
"arranger of contests"
How were mime and pantomime artists regarded?
Controversial figures denied citizenship.
How does Frye say comedies end?
What is the author & Edward Said's criticism of how historians have characterized the Ear and kathakali dance?
When kathakali is classified, as some in the West have, as "classical," or "traditional," these labels imply that Kathakali is relatively fixed and unchanging, rather than a dynamic reflection of socio-cultural and political/economic processes. Such labels also say something disturbing about the West. Edward Said identified this kind of ahistorical process of projecting onto cultures of the Middle East and Asia what the West desires them to be as "orientalizing" the "other"
Who is Pedro Calderon de la Barca?
Succeeded Lope de Vega as Spain's most successful playwright.
Define ludi
"games"
Why do people regard tragedy as more artistically significant comedy?
Define Katha
Sanskrit word for "story, telling or narration"
Define bourgeoise
The property owning and professional urban class that gradually supplanted royal sovereigns and landed aristocrats as rulers in Western Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Define Rasa
The pleasure of "tasting" the various aesthetic sentiments that live theatre offers.
Define mimes
Women & men performers in masks, using monologue, dialog, dance, song, and skills.
How did Aristotle characterize comedy?
Populated by characters of a lower type, derived from a defect that is neither painful nor destructive.
Define Natyasatra
an encyclopedic work on all aspects of drama attributed to the stage.
What did print culture do to theatre?
Helped to legitimate dramatic theatre as an independent institution, shaped the development of perspective scenery within a proscenium frame, accorded greater authority to dramatic authors, enhanced the legibility of the gestures and characters presented by Western European actors, and eventually helped to convince many Europeans that they were members of a nation-state, not just a city or province.