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week 5 crash course, Shakespeare's Tragedies:, Comedies, Romances, and…
week 5 crash course
Shakespeare's Tragedies:
Tragic heroes
never lest the heroes of his revenge tragedies become dehumanized
constantly thinking and questioning if they are doing the right thing
never stop feeling for the heros
King Lear
Lear starts off making wrong calls
giving up king ship and expecting to live like a king
asking his daughters to preform their love than honestly feeling it
though out the rest of the play he wrestles with and regrets his bad decisions
seams to ask us for our sympathy
role reversal happens when it looks like Lear will win but ultimately loses
Companies
3-4 boys
boys would play the women
a few hired players
made of 8-12 shareholders
Some musicians
a couple of Stagehands
actors were spesulaised into types
had to sing, dance and sword fight
spend morning memorizing a new play and acting an old one in the evenings
plays were on repritar
so several could begoing at once
shekspear's tragedies
1st tragedy: Titus Andronicus
a tragedy of Shakespeare is a play that ends unhappily and is not about a recent king.
tend to go heavily on the verse and langue is typically ornate
action pack
have funny parts
have some foucus on sin
characters often worry about that an action will do for them in the next life
Comedies, Romances, and Shakespeare's Heroines
Shakespearen Comedy's
a play that is not based on a recent historical figure and that ends happily
often a retretal into a forest
Pee Jokes, the Italian Renaissance, Commedia Dell'Arte
the staging renaissance
started when 15th centery Italians rediscover Vitruvius's treatise De Architecturea
writen around 15 BCE
basically the Poetics of architecture, chockablock with set design pro tips.
singe point prespective pantings helped to
they helped create the three-dimensional look
only good viewing for the nobility that were seated in the middle
sliding scenery began in the 17th century
Teatro Olimpico
opened in 1585 and built by Andrea Palladio
look likes a shrunk enclosed roman theater
may have contributed to the Proscenium arch
Commedia Dell'Arte
artful comedy/ the comedy of players
from 1560 on women were allowed to be on stage
might have come from
Atellan Farces
stock charaters
where based on regional types and had specific
dress
accent
food
Commedia Dell'Arte: stock characters
The Masters
The captain "Capitano"
Arrogance
Cowardly
Swagger
Spanish Military
mask, cape, sword, and mustash
Pantalone
Miserly Merchant
red vest, long coat, mask with a big nose, and gray beard
lusty
creepy
not very romantic
The Doctor "Il Dottore"
Academic Doctor
friend of Pantalone
wants everyone to know he is smart
uses lots of latten
Urine Lazzi
cheating Wife
The Servants "Zanni"
Brighella
18 centery
mask, mustash, sword
mean
lech
big liar
The Harlequin "Arlecchino"
acrobatic
green mask, diamond pattered suit, wooden sword
willy and acrobatic
simple
Hungry
speaks in gerberish
Pulcinello
From napels
dressed in a hunchback and pointy hat
Duality
Self-Preservationist
Lover "Innamorati'
Very kind
Often stupid
kind of boring
no maks and clean cut
their love getting thwarted gets the plot going
improvied situations that allow actorsto speak prememorized lines
in pre-arranged comedic bits
Lazzi
Lazzi
Lazzo = Gag
food
hat
pee
butt
The Renaissance introduced humanism
the idea that earthly life isn't just a vale of tears that might lead to heaven if you're good but maybe worthy in and of itself
this encuraged an upsurge in Human achievement
music
medicien
visual arts
physics
theater
1300s Italian writers are trying to make the Roman plays their own but it takes them a while to come up with anything as good as Hrotsvitha's work
late 1390s where writting roman style comidies
Neoclassical Plays
they are classical and new
Commedia Erudita / erudite comides
comedies basted on classical modules
tragedies have to teach useful moral lessons
got rid of choruses, moved to wards greater realism, often wrote
Tragicomedies
tragedies with happy endings