W1 - Notes Flashcards
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Director (Appearance)
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End of 19th Century
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Theater aims
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- to show something
- meant to be performed
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Good Theatre
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- requires reaction (not static)
- Actors= symbols of who we are
- Viewer= transformed into something more (magic of theater)
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Magic of theatre
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Viewer transformed into something more
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Drama
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Reading + Own interpretation
6
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Theatre
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Representation + Someone else’s interpretation
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Play’s representation with someone else’s interpretation
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Theatre
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Play’s reading + own interpretation
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Drama
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Interest of Theatre
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How it is told (Not the story)
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Tragedy (audience)
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Noble
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Tragedy
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- To release tension
- Simplistic
- Familiar
- Good/Bad Obvious
- Order
- Spiritual
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Comedy
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- To question order
- Complexity
- Divergent thinking
- Physical
13
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In narrative performance story is told _______
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within action
14
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When the story is told within action..
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Narrative performance
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Conditions of Narrative Performance
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- Centrality of spoken language
- Economy of action
- Absence of authorial consciousness
- Interplay of characters
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Origins of Western Theatre
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- hunting, fertility, rituals in early societies
- ritual symbolic forms into non-ritual contexts
- Symbolic performance becomes object of interest
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Greek Theatre emergence (Time\Place)
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- 5th C. BCE
- Athens
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Greek Theatre Origins
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religious rituals
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Greek Theatre brought____
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Greek Tragedy and Tragedians
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Thespis
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First Greek playwright
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First Greek playwright
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Thespis
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Greek 2 Types of plays
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- Tragedy
- Comedy
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Greek Tragedy
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- Mythological Past
- Gods+Heroes
- Major Character (loss to illumination)
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Greek Satyr/ Greek Old Comedy/ Greek New Comedy
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- Caricatures of living + fictional persons
- Present
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Greek Theories of Drama
- Plato's Dialogues
| - Aristotle's Poetics
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Plato's Dialogues
- Extreme emotions could cause the opposite
| - Poets + Artists should be banned (Hypocrites)
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Aristotle's Poetics
- Mimicry (mimesis)
- 6 Crucial Elements
- Plots Elements
- Catharsis
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Aristotle's Poetics
| - Mimicry (mimesis)
- common human trait
| - (source of pleasure)
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Aristotle's Poetics
| - 6 Crucial Elements
- plot
- character
- thought
- diction
- music
- spectacle
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Aristotle's Poetics
| - Plot Elements
- sudden reversal
- moment of recognition
- unity
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Catharsis (katharsis)
- Socially therapeutic
| - Aristotle's Poetics
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Socially Therapeutic
- Catharsis
| - Aristotle's Poetics
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Medieval Theatre (time)
- 1000 yrs
- 5th C. - 16th C.
- 3 Periods (5, 3 ,2)
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Medieval Theatre
| - 5th to 10th centuries
- Religious ProCessionals
- Simple Entertainers
- No professional troupes
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Medieval Theatre
| - 11th to 13th centuries
- + Elaborate forms
| - Diverge religious themes
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Medieval Theatre
| - 14th to 16th centuries
- Bourgeois class (independence)
| - Increased taste for Satire
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Medieval Theatre
- Pledge of loyalty
- Religious Events Dramatizations
- 3 Forms of Plays (Miracle, Mystery, Morality)
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Medieval 3 Forms of play
- Miracle plays
- Mystery plays
- Morality plays
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Medieval Theatre Celebrates _____
united devotion to common
| political and social order (pledge of loyalty)
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Liberation of Man (time + def.)
(End of Roman Empire)
| - Man can define himself
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End of Roman Empire
- No Gladiators
- No Theatre
- Liberation of Man
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Renaissance & Elizabethan Theatre Era
- Resurrecting
- New freedom
- Liberal education
- New man (the creator and artist)
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Ren. & Eliz. Theatre
| - Resurrecting
New birth to those ancient civilizations destroyed by Goths
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Ren. & Eliz. Theatre
| - New freedom
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Stimulated creative minds:
new sense of...
- purpose
- unity
- order
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Ren. & Eliz. Theatre
| - Liberal education
Individual liberated from prejudice
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Ren. & Eliz. Theatre
| - New Man
- Perfected by Sports, Poetry, Dancing, Music
| - Man as Creator/Artist = Observer/Measurer/Controller of Nature
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Renaissance & Elizabethan Theatre (Different theatres)
2 Categories:
- Classical/Aristocratic Tradition
- Popular Theatre
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Ren. & Eliz. Theatre
| Classical/Aristocratic Tradition
- Redifinition of the 3 types of 'Greek' play
- Comedy = Private Citizens
- Tragedy = Kings, Gr. Public Figures
- Satire = Rustics
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Popular Theatre
Farces and Interludes
- Farce = rough, bawdy, gaulois/courtois
- Stupid Country vs. Clever Townsman
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Elizabeth I 's death
- Puritans in power
| - Theatres closed
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Restoration (theatre)
- Back via France
- Focus = scenery and spectacle
- Women on Stage
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Modern Theatre
- Commercialization and Techno. Innovation Period
- Subject Matters Expansion
- 'Natural Style' emphasis
- Increased access. merchants, industrialists, bourgeoisie, masses
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Contemporary Theatre
- Commercial theatre
- Gentrification of theatre
- Technological + in scenography and acting
- Films and Television
