The Renaissance Theater

Question 0

What types of plays did the worker guilds dramatize?

Answer 0

History

Creation to the day of Judgment

Question 1

Where is it thought that playwriting and performing originated?

Answer 1

The Resurrection Plays performed at Easter Eve services

Question 2

What are the 4 parts that have been saved of the worker guild’s plays called?

Answer 2

York, Chester, Coventry, Wakefield

Question 3

After a while, plays focused less on what?

More on what?

Answer 3

Less on RELIGION

More on COMEDY…dues ex machina (PLOT RESOLVER)

Question 4

Example of mixing comedy and seriousness?

Answer 4

Noah’s wife kicking and screaming as carried on ark

Question 5

Most notable play of the period?

Answer 5

Just before Renaissance: “Everyman” Dutch orig.

Question 6

Before Renaissance play types:

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Miracles and mystery (Bible stories/legends)
Moralities (live and die)
Interlude (1 act, similar to moralities)

PLAYWRIGHTS STOPPED BEING ANONYMOUS

Question 7

Who built 1st Public theater?
What was it called?
When was it built?
Where?

Answer 7

James Burbage
The Theater
1576
Northern suburb of London

Question 8

Where were most theaters built?

Answer 8

European capitals

Question 9

What was the most famous Public theater

Answer 9

The Globe

Question 10

Who owned the Globe?

Answer 10

Shakespeare’s company

Question 11

When was the Theater torn down?

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1599

Question 12

The Globe was built out of _________

Answer 12

The timbers from the Theater

Question 13

What did the Globe look like?

Answer 13

Plans didn’t survive so we only know of exterior in London drawings
Stage directions are clues to interior

Question 14

Accurate drawing of Globe?

Answer 14

C. Walter Hodges

Question 15

Parts of the Globe?

What does the flag symbolize?

Answer 15

The building proper
The stage
The tiring house/ backstage

Flag=performance for the day

Question 16

What happened to the Globe?

Answer 16

Burned down in 1613

Question 17

In Henry V, what did Shakespeare refer to the Globe as?

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The Wooden O (building proper…16 sides)

Question 18

Cost?

Answer 18

Spectators in yard paid less in comparison to patrons in galleries

Question 19

Total audience?

Answer 19

3000 …so closed during epidemic

Question 20

Why did the stage jut out?

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Close contact with audience

Question 21

Ceiling=

Floor=

Answer 21

Heavens

Hell

Question 22

What was the tiring house?

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Tall building consisting of machinery, and dressing rooms

Question 23

The gallery?

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Area above (spectators sat, musicians performed, actions acted)

Question 24

The curtained area?

Answer 24

Area below...."discoveries" in and out objects represent inside vs outside

Question 25

What was Gerald Bentley's statement on Renaissance drama?

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"A drama of persons, not a drama of places."

Question 26

Renaissance theaters could not show reality. What was used to show night? A forest?

Answer 26

Lanterns Small bushes

Question 27

Hear scene or See scene?

Answer 27

Hear!

Question 28

Describe interior of theaters

Answer 28

Painted brightly | Colored tapestries

Question 29

Describe costumes

Answer 29

Elaborate and expensive

Question 30

How did they make seemingly more actors

Answer 30

Costume changes

Question 31

What types of processions?

Answer 31

Military Religion Royal

Question 32

Instrumental and vocal music accompanied_____

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Tragedy and comedy

Question 33

Location of musicians?

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Gallery

Question 34

What signaled entrance and dismissal?

Answer 34

Trumpets

Question 35

Why songs?

Answer 35

Establish mood Advance action Fresh and spontaneous

Question 36

Where is Shakespeare's original music?

Answer 36

LOST

Question 37

Where else did acting companies perform?

Answer 37

Great halls of castle/manor houses | Indoor, covered theaters in London

Question 38

Entertainment?

Answer 38

Bear being attacked by dogs

Question 39

The Blackfriars?

Answer 39

Misused monastery fully covered

Question 40

Pros of the Blackfriars?

Answer 40

Could perform at night and during cold | Year round performances

Question 41

Shakespeare's life span

Answer 41

1564-1616

Question 42

What are Shakespeare's personal views?

Answer 42

We don't know | He left nothing in writing...only plays(characters/emotions)

Question 43

When did Shakespeare write earliest plays?

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Early 1590s

Question 44

Late 1590s plays of Shakespeare:

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(Near end of Elizabeth I reign) | England during War of Roses

Question 45

The tragic period?

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1600-07 Plays of evil, violence, and death Depressed Shakespeare perhaps?

Question 46

Possibly happened in 1607?

Answer 46

Shakespeare's possible brother died

Question 47

Retired when and where?

Answer 47

Stratford in 1610

Question 48

What was special about the play Henry VII?

Answer 48

Last play | Tardy tribute to Queen Elizabeth.(died in 03)

Question 49

What happened to the Globe?

Answer 49

1613: burned to ground by cannon in play

Question 50

What did John Dryden say about Shakespere?

Answer 50

"A great genius whose lofty imagination is matched by his sympathy for all kinds of human behavior."

Question 51

Enterprising publishers?

Answer 51

Would do anything to get hands on plays but didn't publish for fear of being used by competitors

Question 52

When was Shakespeare's "first folio"published?

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1623

Question 53

Renaissance time period

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1500-1660

Question 54

Protagonist?

Answer 54

Hamlet

Question 55

Foils to Hamlet

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Laertes | Fortinbras

Question 56

Antagonist

Answer 56

Claudius

Question 57

What type of tragedy

Answer 57

Revenge tragedy

Question 58

Setting of Hamlet

Answer 58

Elsinore Castle in eastern Denmark

Question 59

Hamlet was first recorded as _______ | Shakespeare never wrote completely original

Answer 59

Danish revenge story by saxo grammat in 1100s

Question 60

Roman Catholic or Humanist

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Humanist

Question 61

Tragedy explained

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Main characters=unhappy end

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Catharsis

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Aristotle...emotional release experienced by audience

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Tragic flaw

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Trait that leads to downfall of character

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Blank verse

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Tragic hero

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Noble birth Typically male Error in judgement (7 deadly sins)

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Principle foils

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Acts differently than hero

Question 67

Normative characters

Answer 67

Present throughout

Question 68

Female

Answer 68

Typ. Polar | Involved, affected, but not destroyed

Question 69

Generic characters

Answer 69

Nameless but important (gaps)

Question 70

Fool character

Answer 70

Provide humor and are directly related | May be obvious or subtle

Question 71

Supernatural character

Answer 71

Catalyst to what will happen Representing guilt/conflict Affect audience

Question 72

Normative character?

Answer 72

Horatio | Present throughout, doesn't die