Renaissance Theater - Europe and England
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Cervantes | Spanish playwright who wrote "Don Quixote." |
| Moliere | Perhaps the most famous French playwright of the Renaissance. |
| Elizabethan Period | Since there was a queen for much of the time, this period of high Renaissance in England was called the _____ _____ after her. |
| Christopher Marlow | English playwright who wrote "Dr. Faustus." |
| Ben Johnson | Rival playwright to Shakespeare, but said (about Shakespeare) that he was "a man for all time." |
| William Shakespeare | The Bard - perhaps one of the most influential playwrights ever from England. Wrote "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet," "Macbeth," and "Julius Caesar." |
| Humors | Theory that emotions were related to the amount of and types of fluids in the human body. |
| Soliloquy | Speech that an actor says to himself or herself that reveals the emotions and personal thoughts of the character to the audience. |
| Aside | A short statement that is only meant to be heard by the audience. |
| Iambic Pentameter | Blank Verse - 10 syllables per line of text. It made learning parts easier for people of the day. |
| Globe Theater | Shakespeare's theater. |
| Groundlings | People who stood on the ground and paid the lowest price for a ticket to the show. They came to see the show. |
| To be seen | The reason many upper class people came to the theater in England at this time. |
| Characters | Shakespeare placed them at the center of his shows in such a way that the stories can be told set in almost any time and place. |
| What they do, What they say, What others say about them. | The only ways we have of knowing about Shakespeare's characters. |
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