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Theatre exam 2

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Dark Ages
After the fall of Rome, no theatre
Middle Ages
Also known as the medieval period, the time between the collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century AD and the beginning of the Renaissance in the fourteenth century.
playlets
brief plays
tropes
a chanted or sung phrase incorporated into mass as an embellishment or commentary on religious lesson
renaissance
fall of constinople to English civil war
liturgy
stations of the cross
allegorical characters
Characters standing for qualities or concepts rather than for actual personages
Danse Macabre
dance of death
mansions and plates
fixed staging
Craft Guilds
community produced plays
pageant wagons
wagons pulled up in the town square and used for the performance of short religious plays
Mystery Plays/Cycle Plays
Dramatized the mystery of Christ's Passion
Performed during church festival of Corpus Christi ( York Crucifixion)
Dramatized a series of biblical events that could stretch from Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, Noah and the flood, and Abraham and Isaac to the stories of Christ in the New Testament.
the second Shepard play
play asks what the three Sheppards were before the angel told them christ was born
miracle plays
told stories about the lives of the saints
morality plays
About how we should conduct our life.
emblem
(n.) a symbol, sign, token
episodic organization of events
promotes change of time and location in dramatic structure
Humanism
rise of university education
tableaux
still image
Aristotelian Scholasticism
A synthesis of Aristotle's philosophy and the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church that was widely taught in universities during the Middle Ages.
interludes
small secular plays represent the transition between midevil plays
domestic plots
the storylines center around families
Commedia dell'arte
A professional form of theatrical improvisation, developed in Italy in the 1500's, featuring stock characters and standardized plots.
Arlecchino
Harlequin clown (most popular)(crafty)
harlequin
servant of pantalome
Pantalone
A stock character of commedia dell' arte; a stingy, retired Venetian merchant who often makes a fool of himself by courting young women.
Scapino
a servant and acrobat who is smarter than his master
innamorati and innamoratae
upper-class young lovers of the commedia dell'arte
La Ruffiana
a gossipy old woman who meddles in the affairs of the lovers
Unity of Time
the action in a play should take place over no more than 24 hours
Unity of Action
a play should have one main action that it follows, with no or few subplots
Unity of Place
all setting can be reached within 24 hours
declamatory acting
A style of acting popular from the Renaissance through the early twentieth century that features grand gestures and an exaggerated elocutionary style. The actors deliver their lines directly to the audience in a rhetorical manner typified by order, harmony, and decorum.
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