Cos/Fash Des. Renaissance

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