Italian Renaissance: Genres & Concepts
This comedic style means "play of professional artists" in Italian
What is Commedia dell'Arte
The earliest permanent proscenium arch theatre; it survives to this day.
What is the Teatro Farnese?
This is the second-to-last person to leave Everyman's side.
Who is Knowledge?
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?
Famous scenic designer who wrote brought Italian innovations to England.
Who is Inigo Jones?
This title is given to the person who supervised the mounting of plays on wagons.
Who is the Pageant Master?
A blanket term for Church Drama, or religious drama.
What is Liturgical Drama?
One of the most prolific dramatists of all time, said to have written 1500 plays and wrote The New Art of Playwriting.
Who is Lope de Vega?
The National Theatre of France, established in 1680.
What is the Commedie Francais?
He wrote Tartuffe.
Who is Moliere (aka Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
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?
Wrote the highly influential Architettura, and argued there should be 3 basic settings for drama.
Who is Sebastian Serlio?
In Everyman, this person stays with him until death.
Who is Good Deeds?
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?
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?
Also known as Cycle Plays, these dramatized biblical events from creation to the last judgement.
What are Mystery Plays?
The earliest known female dramatist
Open air Spanish public theatres built in existing courtyards
What are Corrales?
Group of 40 intellectuals and writers, used their position to attack The Cid.
What is the Academy?
Wrote Faustus
Who is Christopher Marlowe?
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?
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?
The miserly old man in THE PORTRAIT
Who is Pantalone?
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?
He was the lead actor in Shakespeare's company.
Who is Richard Burbage?
On the continent, cycle plays were produced by these religious guilds or clubs
What are Confraternities?
The scenic structure depicting some locale in Liturgical Drama.
What is a Mansion?
Spanish religious plays written for Corpus Christi that combined elements of Medieval religious plays
What are Auto Sacramentales?
Dramatic playwright wrote The Cid, which was attacked for violating the Neoclassical Ideals.
The name of the demon who is at Faustus' side and grants him powers.
Who is Mephistopheles?
The ideals of Time, Place, and Action were called the Three ________.
What are The Three Unities?
Led by Isabella and Francesco Andreini, this was the most famous Italian improv group in the Renaissance.
What is I Gelosi (The Zealous)?
Doctor Gratiano, the other old man in THE PORTRAIT, is an example of this archetype in Commedia.
Who is Il Dottore?
Elaborate entertainments presented at courts, part theatre and part pageant (or royal procession).
What are Masques?
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?
Everyman is this genre of play: aka Station Dramas.
What are Morality Plays?
In _________, people represent ideas: one character stands for charity, another for integrity, etc.
What is Allegory?
Stylized musical drama performed for the Spanish royal court often based on mythology with ornate special effects.
What are Zarzuelas?
Tragic playwright who strictly and successfully followed the Neoclassical Ideals, wrote Phaedra.
Who is Jean Racine?
The sassy and smart maid in Tartuffe.
Who is Dorine?
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?
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?
This person wrote a series of comedic scenarios, one of which was THE PORTRAIT
Who is Flamino Scala?
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?
Ralph Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton's Needle are two examples of this type of play.
What are School Dramas?
Meaning "whom do you seek," this trope evolved into a tiny play between an angel and the three Marys visiting the tomb of Christ.
What is the Quem Quaeritis?
Aka the Eastern Roman Empire, it thrived from 330-1453 CE.
What is Byzantium?
________ de la Novena was the Spanish actor's guild formed in 1631.
What is Cofradia?
The leading actress in her husband's (or father's??) acting troupe.
Who is Armande Bejart?
The name of the French king in Tartuffe who, by the King's officer, arrests the hypocrite.
Who is Loius the XIV (the Sun King)?