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Tartuffe/Spanish Golden Age - Coggle Diagram
Tartuffe/Spanish Golden Age
Moliere: Petitions
Better to moderate and correct than to condemn
use cause of "God" to attack the play? (Just like Tartuffe)
Function of comedy is to correct men's vices
M: How dare you question "not the role of theatre???"
Theory of Comedy
Reasonable = to do those things one is suited to do (
be a merchant, one is societally expected
)
Comic is a LAPSE of this suitability
Discernment by the mind of those things which nature has made to appear contrary to reason (
what comedy will allow to happen
)
Articulates this message
exactly
in the text, said by Clèante, the raisonneur
Condemning everything that the Church says is wrong, in this speech and also at the end of the play with the Kind and when Orgon renounces all religious people
Playwright: Moliere (1622-1673)
First company: Illustre Theatre (1643)
good chemistry with the women
Touring French Provinces (1643-58)
Return to Paris (1658)
Active during French Neoclassical period
Influences by Commedia dell'Arte
Orgon- Pantalone
Mariane and Valère: young lovers
Dorine: maid
Tartuffe
Revised version [
The Imposter
] (1667)
5 Act Version [extant version] (1669)
Use of stock characters with the addition of
RAISONNEUR
Friend of Louis XIV (Marie's grandfather in-law)
Explanation & Defense of the play
Preface to Tartuffe
Petitions
Theory of Comedy
3 Act Version (1664)
Religious Drama: after 1550
City Council assumes control of production
Called:
autos sacrementales
auto
= "act"
Professional troupes
hired
exclusive rights for pucblic performance
Toured
autos
to neighboring towns
Closely associated with Corpus Christi festival
Professional playwrights
Religious Drama: after 1550
processional staging abandoned in 1705
Autos
forbidden: 1765
Actors also performed farcical interludes and dances
autos sacrementales
: staging
Carros
: two-storied structures
Wooden frames
Covered with painted canvas
Serves as entrances/dressing room
(dimensions??)...
Bridge-like platform between the carros
Mounted on
carros
(wagons) (2 or more)
Tartuffe notes
The audience begins to try and decide who they agree with, the family that Tartuffe is a fraud, or the people who praise him
Tartuffe doesn't appear onstage until Act III, building up his image
Spanish Golden Age (16..)
Secular Dramatists
University inteest in classical drama c. 1508
Lope de Vega (1562-1635
May have written as many as 1,800 plays!
Probably 800 (331) survive)
Dramatic theory 1609
Major shift in how theatre is precieved
Bartolomè de Torres Naharro (c. 1485-c.1520)
Established
HONOR-VENGENCE
theme
Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681)
Wrote
autos sacrementales
for Madrid
Approx. 200 plays; 100 survive
Best secular plays 1622-1640
"Serious" plays:
Audiences loved it, they were the ones with swords
women didn't usually get to see
Public Theatres =
corrales
("courtyard")
Needed money that was generated by theatrical performance, but just religious donation
Initially under control of confraternities
Corrales
: Madrid
Square or rectangular courtyard
used to be house. or in e nieghborhod
Got rowdy, fights broke out, men proving masculinity
Cazuela
: women's gallery (above
alojeria
(translates to
kitchen
)
Patio
= central courtyard, for men only, standing spectators
Taburetes
: exspensive seating, closest to stage
Gradas
: raised seating along side of
patio
STRICT segregation of men and women
Alojeria
: refreshment booth (rear of
patio
)