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Zeami Motokiyo
Japanese playwright and actor, specialized in Noh Drama
Chikamastu Monzaemon
Japanese dramatist of jōruri, (puppet theater) which became bunraku
Okuni of Izumo
Japanese entertainer and shrine maiden- believed to have invented kabuki
Hrosvitha of Gandersheim
Earliest known female dramatist, a nun who lived and worked in Gandersheim
The Second Shepherds’ Play
Famous medieval mystery play, multiple settings, episodic form, frequent changes of time and place
Everyman
known as ‘the’ morality play
Isabella Andreini
An Italian actress and writer, and member of the I Gelosi troupe. Role of Isabella of the commedia dell’arte was named after her
I Gelosi Troupe
An Italian acting troupe that performed commedia dell’arte from 1569 to 1604
Giacomo Torelli
An Italian stage designer, devised machinery to change stage sets
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Spanish dramatist, poet, writer and knight of the Order of Santiago. Known as one of the most distinguished Baroque writers of the Spanish Golden Age
Lope de Vega
Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist. Key figure in the Spanish Golden Age of Baroque literature. Modernizer of the comedy genre
“The New Art of Writing Plays”
Book by Lope de Vega, a treatise defending contemporary theatre against the traditionalists
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Colonial Mexican writer, philosopher, composer and poet of the Baroque period, the first published feminist of the New World
“The University Wits”
Phrase used to name a group of late 16th-century English playwrights who were educated at the universities and who became popular secular writers. (Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, and Thomas Nashe, Thomas Lodge and George Peele)
Noh
traditional Japanese masked drama with dance and song
Bunraku
form of traditional Japanese puppet theatre
Kabuki
Classical form of Japanese theatre, mixing dramatic performance with traditional dance, known for its heavily stylized performances, its glamorous, highly decorated costume
Shite
Principal role in a noh play
Waki
Subordinate actor in noh play
Yugen
yūgen suggested beauty only partially perceived—fully felt but barely glimpsed by the viewer
Hanamichi
is an extra stage section used in Japanese kabuki theatre
Onnagata
male actors who play female roles in kabuki theatre
Miracle Play
Miracle plays told the stories of the Saint’s lives, sometimes true and sometimes fictional
Mystery/Cycle Play
told stories from the bible and gave way to large mystery cycles in which many stories were told sequentially on the same day
Morality Play
taught lessons of morality through the use of allegorical characters
Mansion
stage structures used in medieval theatre to represent specific locations
Platea
acting area of the stage was called the platea
William Shakespeare
English playwright, poet and actor. widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language
Christopher Marlowe
an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era
The Globe Theatre
a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare
Richard Burbage
an English stage actor, widely considered to have been one of the most famous actors of the Globe Theatre and of his time
Inigo Jones
architect, first instances of scenery introduced in theatre
Ben Jonson
an English playwright and poet. Jonson’s artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. satirical plays
Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610) and Bartholomew Fair (1614) and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry
Moliere (Jean Baptiste Poquelin)
a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature.
His extant works include comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets, and more
Jean Racine
a French dramatist, the foremost practitioner of tragedy in French history
Pierre Corneille
a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine
William Davenant
was an English poet and playwright
Thomas Killigrew
an English dramatist and theatre manager. He was a witty, dissolute figure at the court of King Charles II of England
“The Female Wits”
The three female playwrights attained enough public success that they were criticised in the form of an anonymous satirical play The Female Wits
William Congreve
an English playwright, poet and Whig politician. His works, which form an important component of Restoration literature, were known for their use of satire and the comedy of manners genre.
The Way of the World
a play written by the English playwright William Congreve. It is widely regarded as one of the best Restoration comedies and is still occasionally performed.
Nell Gwyn
an English stage actress and celebrity figure of the Restoration period. Praised by Samuel Pepys for her comic performances as one of the first actresses on the English stage, she became best known for being a long-time mistress of King Charles II of England. (Pretty Woman)
“A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage”
In March 1698, Jeremy Collier published his anti-theatre pamphlet, A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage; in the pamphlet, Collier attacks a number of playwrights: William Wycherley, John Dryden, William Congreve, John Vanbrugh, and Thomas D’Urfey.
Liturgical Drama
refers to medieval forms of dramatic performance that use stories from the Bible or Christian hagiography
Religious Vernacular Drama
miracle plays, morality plays, and mystery plays. They were performed in the language of the local people, rather than in the Latin of the church.
Episodic Form
Episodic storytelling is a genre of narrative that is divided into a fixed set of episodes
Pageant Master
The production manager of medieval theatre events
Commedia Dell’Arte
a theatrical form characterized by improvised dialogue and a cast of colorful stock characters
Commedia Erudita
Italian comedies written for the enjoyment of scholars in the sixteenth century. They were meant to mimic and emulate the works of Terence and Plautus.
Zanni
a character type of commedia dell’arte best known as an astute servant and a trickster.
Lazzi
stock comedic routines that are associated with Commedia dell’arte
The Neoclassical Ideals
purity of theatrical form, five acts, realism, decorum or restraint, and purpose.
Three Unities
action, time, and place
Verisimilitude
if it seems realistic and the story has details, subjects, and characters that seem similar or true to real life, or mime convincing aspects of life in important or fundamental ways
Comedia
a Spanish regular-verse drama or comedy
Auto Sacramental
These three-act plays combined comedy and tragedy with themes from history, mythology, popular culture, and the Bible into polymetric verses (meaning there’s no set meter) that shifted throughout the performance
Gracioso
(in Spanish comedy) a buffoon or clown
