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W1 - Notes Flashcards

1
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Director (Appearance)

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End of 19th Century

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2
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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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4
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Magic of theatre

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Viewer transformed into something more

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5
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Drama

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Reading + Own interpretation

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6
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Theatre

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Representation + Someone else’s interpretation

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7
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Play’s representation with someone else’s interpretation

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Theatre

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8
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Play’s reading + own interpretation

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Drama

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9
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Interest of Theatre

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How it is told (Not the story)

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10
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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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12
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Comedy

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  • To question order
  • Complexity
  • Divergent thinking
  • Physical
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13
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In narrative performance story is told _______

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within action

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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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16
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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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18
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Greek Theatre Origins

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religious rituals

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19
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Greek Theatre brought____

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Greek Tragedy and Tragedians

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20
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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

23
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Greek Tragedy

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  • Mythological Past
  • Gods+Heroes
  • Major Character (loss to illumination)
24
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Greek Satyr/ Greek Old Comedy/ Greek New Comedy

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  • Caricatures of living + fictional persons

- Present

25
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Greek Theories of Drama

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  • Plato’s Dialogues

- Aristotle’s Poetics

26
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Plato’s Dialogues

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  • Extreme emotions could cause the opposite

- Poets + Artists should be banned (Hypocrites)

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Aristotle’s Poetics

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  • Mimicry (mimesis)
  • 6 Crucial Elements
  • Plots Elements
  • Catharsis
28
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Aristotle’s Poetics

- Mimicry (mimesis)

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  • common human trait

- (source of pleasure)

29
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Aristotle’s Poetics

- 6 Crucial Elements

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  • plot
  • character
  • thought
  • diction
  • music
  • spectacle
30
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Aristotle’s Poetics

- Plot Elements

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  • sudden reversal
  • moment of recognition
  • unity
31
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Catharsis (katharsis)

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  • Socially therapeutic

- Aristotle’s Poetics

32
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Socially Therapeutic

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  • Catharsis

- Aristotle’s Poetics

33
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Medieval Theatre (time)

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  • 1000 yrs
  • 5th C. - 16th C.
  • 3 Periods (5, 3 ,2)
34
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Medieval Theatre

- 5th to 10th centuries

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  • Religious ProCessionals
  • Simple Entertainers
  • No professional troupes
35
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Medieval Theatre

- 11th to 13th centuries

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    • Elaborate forms

- Diverge religious themes

36
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Medieval Theatre

- 14th to 16th centuries

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  • Bourgeois class (independence)

- Increased taste for Satire

37
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Medieval Theatre

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  • Pledge of loyalty
  • Religious Events Dramatizations
  • 3 Forms of Plays (Miracle, Mystery, Morality)
38
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Medieval 3 Forms of play

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  • Miracle plays
  • Mystery plays
  • Morality plays
39
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Medieval Theatre Celebrates _____

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united devotion to common

political and social order (pledge of loyalty)

40
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Liberation of Man (time + def.)

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(End of Roman Empire)

- Man can define himself

41
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End of Roman Empire

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  • No Gladiators
  • No Theatre
  • Liberation of Man
42
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Renaissance & Elizabethan Theatre Era

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  • Resurrecting
  • New freedom
  • Liberal education
  • New man (the creator and artist)
43
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Ren. & Eliz. Theatre

- Resurrecting

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New birth to those ancient civilizations destroyed by Goths

44
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Ren. & Eliz. Theatre

- New freedom

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Stimulated creative minds:
new sense of...  
- purpose 
- unity 
- order
45
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Ren. & Eliz. Theatre

- Liberal education

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Individual liberated from prejudice

46
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Ren. & Eliz. Theatre

- New Man

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  • Perfected by Sports, Poetry, Dancing, Music

- Man as Creator/Artist = Observer/Measurer/Controller of Nature

47
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Renaissance & Elizabethan Theatre (Different theatres)

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2 Categories:

  • Classical/Aristocratic Tradition
  • Popular Theatre
48
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Ren. & Eliz. Theatre

Classical/Aristocratic Tradition

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  • Redifinition of the 3 types of ‘Greek’ play
  • Comedy = Private Citizens
  • Tragedy = Kings, Gr. Public Figures
  • Satire = Rustics
49
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Popular Theatre

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Farces and Interludes

  • Farce = rough, bawdy, gaulois/courtois
  • Stupid Country vs. Clever Townsman
50
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Elizabeth I ‘s death

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  • Puritans in power

- Theatres closed

51
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Restoration (theatre)

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  • Back via France
  • Focus = scenery and spectacle
  • Women on Stage
52
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Modern Theatre

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  • Commercialization and Techno. Innovation Period
  • Subject Matters Expansion
  • ‘Natural Style’ emphasis
  • Increased access. merchants, industrialists, bourgeoisie, masses
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Contemporary Theatre

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  • Commercial theatre
  • Gentrification of theatre
  • Technological + in scenography and acting
  • Films and Television

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