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hired young apprentices as actors
No women on the english stage yet
New plays added once a week
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stage 5 ft high
3 stories
stage partly roofed
trap door |
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| Shakespeare's indoor theater where his company perfored in the winter |
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| Professional Acting companies |
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| Shakespeares company (*called King's men after she died) |
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| actors, investors, playwrights that are responsible for leasing theaters, hiring actors, and buying plays |
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| built by James Burbage, it was the first theater |
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son of a glover
didn't attend Univ
married Ann Hathaway
wrote bios of some KIngs |
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| venetian mask to represent misery old man |
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| mask to represent a cunning clown |
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| columbina - zanni servant |
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| Italaian Renaissance architect that designed stage and costumes |
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| theater as a means of public education |
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| an integration of acting, mime, dance, music, text |
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| do all the txt and play all the characters in Bunraku |
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| originally performed by women but this was later outlawd |
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| In Kabuki, platform that can be raised or lowered |
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one act play that is also a regligous sacrament
during feast of Corpus Christi |
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| short performances of full length plays (during restoration) |
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| attempt to revive and emulate classical attitudes towards art based on order, harmony, unity, restrained wit, and decorum |
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| strict unity of time/place/action, no mixing of comedy and tragedy, no chorus, no soliloquoy, no deus ex machina |
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| follows neoclassical rules |
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| comedy of humor, comedies of manner, comedies of intrigue, farces |
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| mankes fun of manners of society |
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| one trait overshadows all |
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| area in front of proscenium arch same size as area behind it (English restoration) |
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| normal clothes, scenery painted on falts, upstage downstage |
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| actor moving away from audience |
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| started by Tartuffe. Peformed for |
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| Tragedies for Kings and Upper class and comedies for the lower class |
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1800's era drama
closet dramas - plays to be read and not produced |
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1800's era drama
VERY melodramatic
Camille is an example
Uncle Toms Cabin
originally like a comedic opera
later became a drama with background music to alter the mood |
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started by Eugene Scribe
climax very late in play
very neoclassical
suspense is steadily built through the play |
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| an explanation of what is going on and one or two surprises in The Well Made Play |
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| resolution of the drama in The Well made Play |
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| art should reproduce an image of life avoiding dramatic conventions Doll House |
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| artist should provide (a slice of life). Everyone is a product of heredity and environment |
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