When and what was the "Renaissance" and how did people's ideas about the world they lived in shift during this time? correct answers • "Renaissance"= rebirth
• 14th-17th centuries, starting in Italy
Humanism:
- Movement in literature
- Treated subjects as human being, rather than religious...
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When and what was the "Renaissance" and how did people's ideas about the world they lived in
shift during this time? correct answers • "Renaissance"= rebirth
• 14th-17th centuries, starting in Italy
Humanism:
- Movement in literature
- Treated subjects as human being, rather than religious
subjects
If Renaissance means "rebirth," what was experiencing a rebirth during this period of history?
correct answers Spirit of inquiry extended to religion
- Leading to secessions from Catholic Church
• Discord led to theatre moving out of the church
Identify the outstanding contributions each from England, Italy, and France during the
Renaissance correct answers • England:
- Elizabethan Theatre: professional theatre model
- Work of Shakespeare
• Italy:
- Commedia dell'Arte
- Invention of Proscenium theatre
• France
- Neoclassical Era
Describe the production elements of theatre during the Elizabethan era (Renaissance England)
correct answers - Play often
- Have a stock of plays
- Large performance space
• Accommodate enough paying public
• Control access
- Have costume stock
- Make enough money to compensate full-time
actors
Identify the seating and stage areas of the Globe Theatre correct answers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3VGa6Fp3zI
describe the use of set and costume elements correct answers No intermissions; rowdy audience
• Scenery and costumes:
- No painted scenery
- The stage space did not represent a specific locale
- Required/Allowed for rapid scene changes
- Most costumes were contemporary clothing,
reflective of the social classes being depicted
, describe outstanding features of Shakespeare's plays and the acting companies and Elizabethan
audiences correct answers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3VGa6Fp3zI
Describe Commedia dell Arte and the principle features of this kind of performance correct
answers Flourished from 1550 to 1750
• Improvised, based on scenarios
• Traveling troupes:10-12 performers
- 7-8 men, 3-4 women
• Stock characters
• Masks
-Characters in actions
Define the character types, and identify which actors wore masks and which did not correct
answers Masters:
- Pantalone: lecherous, miserly, old venetian
- Dottore: foolish scholar
- Capitano: cowardly, braggart soldier
Servants:
- Zanni: lowest servant
- Scapino: from "escape;" clever, self-interested
- Arlecchino (Harlequin): Stupid servant. Uses
Slapstick.
- Brighella: Inn host, or merchant. Cunning servant.
- Columbina: Smartest servant. Female. NO MASK.
Lovers: NO masks
- first actor/actress
- Young lovers: young and handsome; children of
Masters
Which theater movements included performers wearing masks, and which did not? correct
answers
How was theatre production different in Italy as compared to England? correct answers
Principles of perspective drawing
What were the major features of the Italian stage and set designs? correct answers -Raked stages
Public opera houses in Venice
- Seating designed with pit, boxes, and galleries
• Pit: where the audience members stood
• Boxes: seating for upper class
• Galleries: upper tiers with open seating (least
desirable, cheapest seats)
What are the Neoclassical Ideals? correct answers Rules for drama formulated by Italian critics
Where were they developed and in what country did they really take off? correct answers -Italy
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