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Italian Renaissance: Genres & Concepts
Italian Renaissance: People & Places
The Portrait
English Renaissance:
Genres & Concepts
English Renaissance:
People & Places
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This comedic style means "play of professional artists" in Italian
What is Commedia dell'Arte
100
The earliest permanent proscenium arch theatre; it survives to this day.
What is the Teatro Farnese?
100
The main comedic servant, or zanni, who is found with Pedralino penniless and naked.
Who is Harlequin?
100
A standard verse line with 10 syllables containing 5 feet, with the stress being on the second syllable. This "blank verse" is what Shakespeare preferred in his writing.
What is Iambic Pentameter?
100
Famous scenic designer who wrote brought Italian innovations to England.
Who is Inigo Jones?
200
These ideals established rules on how playwrights should create renaissance drama and comedy, and were especially influential in Italy and France.
What are the Neoclassical Ideals?
200
Wrote the highly influential Architettura, and argued there should be 3 basic settings for drama.
Who is Sebastian Serlio?
200
This is the city where the action takes place.
What is Parma?
200
The English Renaissance is often known as the __________ period, named after the British monarch who ruled over much of this era.
What is The Elizabethan Period?
200
In Elizabethan Theatre architecture, this three story building served as a place for changing costumes, storing props/set pieces, and as a basic background to the action.
What is the Tiring House?
300
Short pieces depicting mythological tales, presented between the acts of full-length plays, usually comedies, and were often thematically related to the full-length works they accompanied.
What are Intermezzis?
300
He was nicknamed "the Great Wizard," and designed a pole and chariot system for moving scenery that became the standard throughout continental Europe.
Who is Giocomo Torelli?
300
The miserly old man in THE PORTRAIT
Who is Pantalone?
300
Before Shakespeare's company was renamed The King's Men in 1603, it was known as The ______ __________'s Men.
What is The Lord Chamberlian's Men?
300
He was the lead actor in Shakespeare's company.
Who is Richard Burbage?
400
The ideals of Time, Place, and Action were called the Three ________.
What are The Three Unities?
400
Led by Isabella and Francesco Andreini, this was the most famous Italian improv group in the Renaissance.
What is I Gelosi (The Zealous)?
400
Doctor Gratiano, the other old man in THE PORTRAIT, is an example of this archetype in Commedia.
Who is Il Dottore?
400
Elaborate entertainments presented at courts, part theatre and part pageant (or royal procession).
What are Masques?
400
Particularly skilled in comedy, this playwright wrote VALPONE, court entertainments, and was one of the first writers to champion the Neoclassical ideals.
Who is Ben Johnson?
500
When writing Italian Renaissance plays, this Ideal speaks to the need for characters to be true to life, so ghosts, apparitions, and supernatural events were forbidden.
What is verisimilitude?
500
In addition to being a playwright, he is often credited as being the founder of modern political science with his renowned work THE PRINCE.
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
500
This person wrote a series of comedic scenarios, one of which was THE PORTRAIT
Who is Flamino Scala?
500
Acting companies were arranged in a way where some received the profits/risk, some received training and played female roles, and some were contracted only for specific roles/plays. THESE are the three terms for those positions.
What are shareholders, apprentices, and hirelings?
500
Public theatres were arranged in these three broad categories.
What are pit, boxes, and galleries?