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Renaissance Theatre
1450-1649
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Renaissance Drama
Renaissance means rebirth of classical
knowledge.
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Italy:
Known more for stage equipment and
scenery than great plays.
Ideas from Greek and Roman period blended
to develop perspective paintings and colored
lights.
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Continued…
Street comedy started
(Commedia Dell’Arte: improvised comedy: no script.)
Troupes:
Acting companies traveled from town to town presenting these comedies.
Had fixed or stock characters:
Identified by costumes and masks (doctor, maid, clown, male servants).
Harlequin: diamond-patterned costume.
Pantalone: old man: wears black coat with long sleeves and red vest.
15th and 16th Centuries developed interludes: one act farces.
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France (late 1600s): Returned to ideas of Aristotle:
Greek philosopher (considered first literacy critic). Three unities:
-One action
-One day
-One place
Plays portraying heroes were popular.
After French Revolution, Commedia Francaise established (comedies and farces).
Led to the development of French professional theatre.
Theatre further developed by the government under direction of Louis XIV (great supporter of the arts).
Famous playwrights: Moliere and Racine
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Moliere Racine
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Henry VII
(1485-1509)
Henry VIII
(1509-1547)
Mary I
(1553-1558)
Elizabeth I
(1558-1603)
Edward VI
(1547-1553)
Lady Jane Grey
(1553)
English Monarchy: The Tudors
(1485-1603)
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Queen Elizabeth I
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England: Elizabethan Age (1550-1650 CE):
One of the most important periods. Height of change in drama; it becomes very expressive and a force in the lives of people.
Morality play continued as farces.
Plays done in taverns: People throw food at actors.
NO real scenery yet
All men…men even played women!
1st English public playhouse: 1576- built by James Burbage.
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London Bridge in the Renaissance
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Continued…
Famous playwrights Christopher Marlowe:
Known for use of language and exciting plots.
Doctor Faustus.
Ben Jonson: First master of English comedy.
Made personality traits and weaknesses a cause
for laughter.
Volpone
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Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
Part of the “university wits” who set a standard for dramatic structure
Dramatic poetry
– “The Mighty Line”
• Iambic pentameter
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1588)
– A good angel and a bad angel attempt to influence Faustus to sell his soul to the devil
Produced plays in The Rose
Stabbed in a brawl in 1589
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Christopher Marlowe
Inquisition into the death
of Christopher Marlowe
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William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Born in Stratford-Upon-Avon in 1564
Chose not to follow Italian neoclassic rules – Episodic structure, subplots,
comic scenes to emphasize serious
Wrote Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and many others
Produced plays in The Globe Theater
Retired in 1613 to Stratford and died in 1616
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Continued…
William Shakespeare:
Greatest dramatists of all time.
Successful because his plays appealed to everyone.
Considered a master of characterization:
Characters are well defined and the center of interest.
Characters are moved by emotions: love, jealousy, and
grief.
No Woman: female roles played by boys.
Globe theatre: Burbage managed later.
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The Globe
of 1599
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Cross
Section
View of
The Globe
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Continued…
Plays were written to be seen, not read, by loud audiences. Used to be shouting approval and displeasure so plays had to be exciting, humorous, and moving to maintain interest.
Typical Shakespearean devices:
Couplet: Two rhyming lines that signal the end of a scene.
Soliloquy: Character speaks directly to the audience; explained
action or described characters (no programs).
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Continued…
Famous Shakespeare plays (Shakespeare is credited with writing 37 plays, as well as poems and sonnets):
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
Macbeth
King Lear
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
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Playhouses
Multi-sided open-air
theaters built outside
city limits of London
– City forbade theater on
moral grounds
– However, Queen
Elizabeth and other
nobles supported
theatre financially, so it
flourished
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Audience Seating
Seating had three tiers
– Part of one tier was divided into boxes called
lords’ rooms which were rented by wealthy
Ground floor was called the yard
– Lower-class spectators stood here and were
called groundlings
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Stage and Tiring House
Raised platform surrounded on three sides by
audience
Trapdoors led to below the stage
Tiring House similar to Greek skene
– At least two doorways; possibly a center door for a
reveal space
– Second story for an “inner above” playing area
– Third story for musicians’ gallery
– Roof covered stage; called the heavens
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Private Theaters
Private meant they were indoors, not that they excluded people
– Admission was more expensive, so poorer class would be excluded only because they couldn’t afford it
Staged productions in winter months or nighttime
Smaller than public theaters
Stage probably extended to side walls
Pit seating faced one direction; galleries and boxes faced three sides
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Scenery and Costumes
Neutral stage that did not represent a specific location – “Spoken décor” or characters’ lines were used to
establish location
– Minimal props to also suggest location
Costumes were not historically accurate to time of play – Wore contemporary fashion
– Traditional costumes to indicate antiquity, supernatural characters or racial groups were worn over Elizabethan clothing
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Acting Companies
All plays had to be licensed by master of
revels
All troupes had to be sponsored by a patron,
a nobleman above rank of Baron
– The Lord Chamberlain’s Men – performed at
Globe and performed Shakespeare
– The Lord Admiral’s Men – performed at the
Rose and performed Marlowe
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Companies
Each company had about 25 members organized on a sharing plan – Shareholders: elite members who bought a percentage of the
company and received profits as payment; played major roles
– Hirelings: actors contracted for specific period of time and specific salary; usually minor roles
– Apprentices: assigned to shareholders; received training, room and board in hopes they would become shareholders
– Householders: star members who part owned the theater building as incentive to stay with company
Playwrights hired under contract – Plays performed once a week for a few weeks and several times
later in the season if it was popular
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How to act in Elizabethan
England…
Against realism
– Female roles played by boys
– Doubling or tripling of roles
– Lines learned roughly or poorly
• Given sides, or only their lines and cues and not the full script
– Rehearsal time was minimal
• Stylized movements and gestures
• Improvisation must have been used frequently
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Jacobean and Caroline Drama
New rulers in England: The Stuarts
– James I (Jacobean) and later his son Charles I (Caroline)
Bad relations with Parliament
– Civil war in 1642 when Puritans took control of Parliament and beheaded Charles I in 1649
• Commonwealth created by Oliver Cromwell
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Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
Followed neoclassic principles
Developed “Comedy of Humours” where each principal character had excess of one trait, or humour
Wrote Volpone about a man who dupes old men out of their riches by pretending he is about to die
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Beaumont and Fletcher
Mixed serious and comic elements – Serious themes with a happy
ending
– Wrote in an artificial, superficial style
Wrote plays – Philaster (1610)
– A King and No King (1611)
Partnership broke up when Beaumont married in 1613 – Fletcher collaborated with
Shakespeare on Two Noble Kinsmen (1613) and Henry VIII (1613)
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Court Masques
Elaborate entertainment presented at court – Created to honor the King or member of the royal
family
Flourished under reigns of James I and Charles I
Emphasis on music and dance with elaborate backdrops and moving equipment
Performers were amateur members of the court – Incorporated mythological and allegorical figures to tell
a story where the monarch proved to be the hero in the end
Introduced Italian scenic practices in England
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End of an Era
From 1649-1660, England was controlled
by Puritans
Puritans were violently opposed to theatre
– Believed that theatre was a den of iniquity and
taught immorality
– Outlawed all theatrical activities
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The Reformation 1642-1660
Puritans, under direction of Oliver Cromwell, come into existence.
Puritan- wanted to “purify” the Catholic Church. (Aka. Pilgrims…you know… the Mayflower, Thanksgiving, Squanto?)
Wanted Church of England to be stricter about morals.
Killed theatre for 18 years.
Puritan Rebellion 1642-1660.
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Oliver Cromwell
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Restoration England: During reign of Charles II (1660-1737)
Theatre monopoly granted to one group to serve all of London.
Most plays performed in only: Drury Lane Theatre
Convent Garden Theatre
Lead to “legitimate theatre”: refers to professional stage plays.
Actors wore dress of the day: No historical costuming.
Acting monopolies connected to rich landowners and did shows and performances for them only.
Women were allowed to play female roles.
Elaborate scenery more widely used.
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Charles II
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