Italian Flashcards
Unity of time
Play must take place in a realistic time scenario, usually 24 hours
Unity of place
Different settings cannot be farther apart than it would take to reach in the runtime of show, cannot go from Prague to Rome within the runtime, but can go from ballroom to throne room. Periaktoi reappear
Unity of Action
Unified theme, no mixing of genre, no subplots
Sabboneta
3 dimensional scenery
Greek Roman architecture, fresco on the walls
Pastoral
Mixed genre, mythological, legends stories
Happens in countryside
Imitation of Greek satyr plays
Usually about lovers
Objective of neoclassical theatre
Focused on moral instruction and aim to please
-no longer about profit
Tragedy
Characters of high station, nobility
Theme/storyline about state of affairs that have effect on society
High verse language, poetry like fitting of high station
Commedia dell’arte
“Comedy of the professional artists”
Troupes, family business
Stock characters
Genre: slapstick, physical comedy using actual slap sticks. Comedy of pain, farce, low comedy
Unscripted/improvised
Costumes of characters connected to who they are.
Lazzi- business of the characters
Italianate style
Highly ornamental
High magnitude
Very high detailed
Farnesse
Fixed proscenium arch
Serlio
Architect of IR
- Italianate staging
- scenic designs by genre
- raked stage, which is where upstage/downstage come from
- fixed angled wings
- groove system/pole and chariot
Olympico
Skaena frons
Central forced perspective down middle door
Oldest surviving theater from Italian Renaissance still standing
Neoclassicism traits
Supernatural prohibited Verisimilitude replacing dulce et decorumest Decorum still around ruling properness Unity of time Unity of place Unity of action
Neoclassicism Set up
5 acts
Comedy
Middle, lower class Prose based on Roman interpretation of Greek new comedy, domestic affairs, local politics Happy contrived endings
