Exm 4 Flashcards
Where the audience members stood
Pit
Seating for upper class
Boxes
Upper tiers with open seating
Galleries
Method of scene shifting. (On and off stage)
Groove system
Newer, innovative scene changing system
Pole-and-chariot
What place was the center of activity?
Italy
What was the Italian renaissance period?
A period of exploration and invention. Are treated subjects as human beings, rather than religious subjects 
Short pieces, depicting, mythological tails. Presented between the acts of bowling place. Often required spectacular scenic affects.
Intermezzi
Short, ribald comic pieces. Subject matter is romance. Characters are Shepherd and mythological creatures.
Pastoral
How was commedia dell arte performed?
With no set text. Invented words and actions as they went along. (Just a scenario and improv)
Harlequins prop
Slap stick
Italian critics formulated dramatic rules
Neoclassical ideas
Drama should be “true to life” (plausible)
Verisimilitude
Three unities of neoclassical ideals.
- Unity of time
- Unity if place
- Unity of action
What is violence forbidden in neoclassical ideals?
Yes
The chorus and supernatural characters were acceptable 
False
Opposed to the soliloquy (long monologue)
True
The oldest surviving theatre built during the renaissance
Teatro olimpico in Vicenza
Who were intrigued by language
The english
The two primary playwrights during the Elizabethan period
Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare
Who created the “mighty line”
Christopher Marlowe
Who perfected dramatic poetry?
Marlowe
Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine, Edward II
Marlowes works
▪ Senecan dramatic devices
▪ Platform stage
▪ Powerful dramatic verse
▪ Source material from English history, Roman history and
drama, and Italian literature
▪ Episodic plot structure with roots in medieval theatre
Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
Othello
Macbeth
King Lear
Shakespeares tragedies
The Comedy of Errors
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
As You Like It
Twelfth Night
Shakespeares comedies
Richard III
Henry IV
Henry V
Shakespeares history
Who wrote the Spanish tragedy?
Thomas kyd