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What types of plays did the worker guilds dramatize?

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History

Creation to the day of Judgment

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Where is it thought that playwriting and performing originated?

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The Resurrection Plays performed at Easter Eve services

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

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York, Chester, Coventry, Wakefield

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After a while, plays focused less on what?

More on what?

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Less on RELIGION

More on COMEDY…dues ex machina (PLOT RESOLVER)

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Example of mixing comedy and seriousness?

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Noah’s wife kicking and screaming as carried on ark

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Most notable play of the period?

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Just before Renaissance: “Everyman” Dutch orig.

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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

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

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James Burbage
The Theater
1576
Northern suburb of London

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Where were most theaters built?

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European capitals

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What was the most famous Public theater

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The Globe

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Who owned the Globe?

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Shakespeare’s company

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When was the Theater torn down?

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1599

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The Globe was built out of _________

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The timbers from the Theater

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What did the Globe look like?

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

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Accurate drawing of Globe?

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C. Walter Hodges

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Parts of the Globe?

What does the flag symbolize?

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The building proper
The stage
The tiring house/ backstage

Flag=performance for the day

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What happened to the Globe?

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Burned down in 1613

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

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The Wooden O (building proper…16 sides)

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Cost?

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Spectators in yard paid less in comparison to patrons in galleries

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Total audience?

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3000 …so closed during epidemic

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Why did the stage jut out?

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Close contact with audience

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Ceiling=

Floor=

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Heavens

Hell

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What was the tiring house?

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Tall building consisting of machinery, and dressing rooms

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The gallery?

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

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The curtained area?

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

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What was Gerald Bentley’s statement on Renaissance drama?

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“A drama of persons, not a drama of places.”

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

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Lanterns

Small bushes

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Hear scene or See scene?

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Hear!

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Describe interior of theaters

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Painted brightly

Colored tapestries

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Describe costumes

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Elaborate and expensive

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How did they make seemingly more actors

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Costume changes

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What types of processions?

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Military
Religion
Royal

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Instrumental and vocal music accompanied_____

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Tragedy and comedy

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Location of musicians?

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Gallery

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What signaled entrance and dismissal?

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Trumpets

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Why songs?

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Establish mood
Advance action
Fresh and spontaneous

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Where is Shakespeare’s original music?

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LOST

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Where else did acting companies perform?

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Great halls of castle/manor houses

Indoor, covered theaters in London

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Entertainment?

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Bear being attacked by dogs

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The Blackfriars?

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Misused monastery fully covered

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Pros of the Blackfriars?

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Could perform at night and during cold

Year round performances

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Shakespeare’s life span

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1564-1616

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What are Shakespeare’s personal views?

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We don’t know

He left nothing in writing…only plays(characters/emotions)

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When did Shakespeare write earliest plays?

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Early 1590s

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Late 1590s plays of Shakespeare:

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(Near end of Elizabeth I reign)

England during War of Roses

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The tragic period?

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

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Possibly happened in 1607?

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Shakespeare’s possible brother died

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Retired when and where?

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Stratford in 1610

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What was special about the play Henry VII?

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Last play

Tardy tribute to Queen Elizabeth.(died in 03)

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What happened to the Globe?

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1613: burned to ground by cannon in play

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What did John Dryden say about Shakespere?

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

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Enterprising publishers?

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

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When was Shakespeare’s “first folio”published?

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1623

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Renaissance time period

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1500-1660

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Protagonist?

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Hamlet

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Foils to Hamlet

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Laertes

Fortinbras

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Antagonist

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Claudius

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What type of tragedy

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Revenge tragedy

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Setting of Hamlet

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Elsinore Castle in eastern Denmark

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Hamlet was first recorded as _______

Shakespeare never wrote completely original

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Danish revenge story by saxo grammat in 1100s

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Roman Catholic or Humanist

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Humanist

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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

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Normative characters

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Present throughout

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Female

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Typ. Polar

Involved, affected, but not destroyed

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Generic characters

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Nameless but important (gaps)

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Fool character

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Provide humor and are directly related

May be obvious or subtle

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Supernatural character

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Catalyst to what will happen
Representing guilt/conflict
Affect audience

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Normative character?

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Horatio

Present throughout, doesn’t die

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