| Term | Definition |
|---|
| SONNET | Merged elements of contempt Italian life with structure of Roman comedy. |
| PETRARCH | 1st modern attempt to write a classical comedy. Philodea |
| MACHIAVELLI | Writer of prints and discourses. La Mandragola – makes play likable, admired for characterization and construction. |
| COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE | Comedy improvised with written scenarios with stock characters. |
| VARIOUS EVENTS | French Parliament outlawed Mystery plays. Theatre becomes more secular(worldly) French Learned comedies fill in the hole Comedia Eriudita and Dell Arte combine. |
| ITALIAN TRAGEDY | Induce wonder, pity and horror. Lengthy, bloody, complicated, boring. Featured ghosts, violence, moralizing. |
| TRAGIC COMEDY | Not as lengthy and bloody, better story lines. Status in women become higher. They are more able and important |
| PASTORAL | Gets absorbed into French opera. Most important comedies in Italy. |
| OPERA | Attempt to create Greek drama. True child of Italian Renaissance. Primary focus is on script and production. |
| ENGLAND | Separated by English channel. Productivity of playwright and theatrical productions. Comedy, tragedies, histories. Continental models. Pastorals become popular. |
| 3 TYPES OF PLAYS | Comedy, tragedy, histories |
| CONFLICTING INFLUENCES | Nobility and royalty. Opposition from puritans. Separation of powers, puritans wanted Theatre gone. |
| FRANCE | 2 forms of comedy |
| MOLIERE | French playwright, ridicules people and ideas, hypocrisy, medicine, and forced marriages. |
| SONNET | Little song, 14 lines with iambic pentameter. Poems of love addressed to objects of poets affection. |
| IAMB | Metrical foot, unaccented followed by accent. |
| PENTAMETER | a verse line having five metrical feet |
| IAMBIC PENTAMETER | A line of poetry that contains five iambic feet. |
| PETRARCH | ababcdcdefefgg, Undying love for Laura. Father of humanism |
| SPENSER | alters, ababbcbcdcdee Writes about love, modern view of love, less focus on adoration but inner beauty. |
| BROWNING | Victorian age writer – Sonnets about her husband Abbaaddacdcd Enjambment, no end punctuation. Can be read as a poem. |
| MACHIAVELLI | Ababcdcdefefgg = Petrarch - Ababbcbcdcdee = Spenser - Ababcdcdefefgg = Shakespeare Abbaaddacdcd = Browning |
| CASTIGLIONE | Set the bar for courtiers. Things to strive for, how to look cool and be cool. "Book of the courtier." More impact than Machaivelli's book. By 1600, the book had been translated to all European language |
| CERVANTES | Like Castiglione. Soldier, diplomat but not as successful. 5 years held for ransom by the moors. 20-30 plays only 2 survived. *Writer of prose. Novellas Etemplares – love, idealism, gypsies, fantasy. |
| Petrarch | Sonnets to Laura: father of humanism |
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