Set: Theatre, Chapt. 5

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Renaissance rebirth, renewed interest in classical civilization that burgeoned throughout western Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Christopher Marlowe more successful of the two playwrights, blank verse
Elizabethan Age period of drama in which Shakespeare played the central role
Jacobean Era shakespeare and his comtemporaries flourished equally under the subsequent rule of king james I
Public theatres outdoor, greatest attractions of Elizabethan London
Private theatres intimate, indoor
Yard one end of which the players performed on a raised stage.
Tiring House dressing room, provided actors a variety of entries to the stage: windows, balconies, and two or more large doors.
Cellarage access via a 4X4 foot trapdoor
Heavens projected semicanopy from which, occasionally, actors descended via pulleys
Groundlings spectators sitting in the yard
The boards theatre itself
Pavilion stood at the rear of the Shakespearean platform, butting against the façade of the tiring house and permitting entrances through curtains or other openings
Troupe theatre company of touring actors, singers and/or dancers
Lord Admiral's Men manger Philip henslow, edwad allen, and the grea playright Christopher Marlowe
Chamberlains men under rule of queen Elizabeth I, came under the personal patronage of king james I (kings men)—the theatre and the globe
Quarto single play editions
Folio collected plays
Chronicle plays history plays
Blank verse unryhmed iambic pentameter
Niccolo Machiavelli the author of the scandalous political treatise The Prince
Commedia erudite learned comedy
Commedia dell arte play of profession artists also interpreted as "comedy of humors"
Lazzi comic characters peformed stock bits of clownish business
slapstick comedy
Fuenteovejuna shows villagers of the peasant town of that name suffering form brutal dominiation an sexual abuse by the local nobility
Pedro Calderon de la Barca life is a dream, philosophical, priest
Life is a dream king of pland who sevretly imprisons his son at birth in hopes of preventing his sons falling victim to a doom laden prophecy

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dfz03 : Changed Lord Admiral’s Men → manger Philip henslow, edwad allen, and the grea playright Christopher Marlowe to Lord Admiral's Men → manger Philip henslow, edwad allen, and the grea playright Christopher Marlowe
dfz03 : Changed Pedro Calderon del la Barca → life is a dream, philosophical, priest to Pedro Calderon de la Barca → life is a dream, philosophical, priest
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  1. Lord Admiral's Men → manger Philip henslow, edwad allen, and the grea playright Christopher Marlowe - 13 misses
  2. Fuenteovejuna → shows villagers of the peasant town of that name suffering form brutal dominiation an sexual abuse by the local nobility - 7 misses
  3. Commedia erudite → learned comedy - 6 misses
  4. Commedia dell arte → play of profession artists also interpreted as "comedy of humors" - 6 misses
  5. Pedro Calderon de la Barca → life is a dream, philosophical, priest - 6 misses
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