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The Influences of Italian Renaissance
Proscenium Theatre, Pastoral Plays, Opera
Proscenium Theatre
Scenic designers began to incorperate perspective, set changes between scenes
Proscenium Arch
Framing device to help perspective achieve illusions of reality, created a backstage, and made a 4th wall
Pastoral Plays
set in the country to show simple lives of famers and shepherds, Italian playrights pioneer the form, precursor to the romantic movement
Opera
Theatre that focuses more on music with little/no spoken dialouge
Intermedio
a music interlude between acts of plays
2 Types of Music in Opera
Composed songs, Recitative spoken lines set to music
2 Styles of Opera
Serious, Opera Buffa (comody)
Claudio Monteverdi
early opera composer
Aristotle’s Poertics Theatre Elements
Plot, Character, Thought, Music, Language, and Spectacle
Anagnorisis
recognitions, identification
Catharsis
purgatory, clarification
Humanism
Man is the “measure of all things”
Florence, Italy
the birthplace of the Renaissance
Medici Family
Financial and political dynasty, patrons of the arts
Linear Perspective
The illusion of three dimensions (depth and space) on a 2-dimentional surface
Machiavellian
an unscrupulous power monger who, through cunning and scheming, defeats their enemies
Spanish Theatre…
appealed to all classes, and playwrites and acting companies were sponsored by aristocrats
Lope de Vega
wrote 800-1800 plays w prominents themes of honor and conflict between right and wrong
Calderon de la Barce
Solider, roman-catholic preist, and playwrite who wrote spanish baroque theatre
Spanish theatre had…
Little influence outside of spain
Auto-Sacramentales
allegorical one act plays about the sacrament of euchrist
Houppelande
high collared, loose sleeved, volouminous dress
Farthingale
Hoop-skirt
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