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TH Italian Res
Theatre History, Italian Renaissance
Question | Answer |
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Pastorals | a literary or other artistic work that portrays or evokes rural life, usually in an idealized way. |
Intermezzi | A comic play with music performed between the acts, popular in the 16th and 17th centuries in France and Italy. |
Lazzi | stage tricks designed to evoke laughter which, often as not, are altogether extraneous to the plot, i.e. slapstick, or the even less dignified "schtick." |
Zibaldoni | manuscripts compiled by commedia actors containing jokes, comic buisness and repeated scenes and speeches. |
Sacra rappresentazione | "sacred representations" religious dramas in medevil style, stories from bible and saints |
Perspective | Illusion of depth in painting |
Teatro Olimpico | oldest surviving theatre constructed during italian renaissance. 1st indoor theatre, persepective |
Teatro Farnese | part of a court, first procineum arch. |
Angled wing | Flats hinged in a fixed position and painted in perspective, placed one behind the other |
Flat wing | a non angled wing, parrallel to audeience. painted in perspective |
I Gelosi | a famous commedia acting company, all family |
Humanism | A cultural and intellectual movement of the Renaissance that emphasized secular concerns as a result of the rediscovery and study of the literature, art, and civilization of ancient Greece and Rome. |
verisimilitude | true to life |
Libretto | The text of a dramatic musical work, such as an opera. |
Sebastiano Serlio | Introduced perspective, angled wings, raked stage, 1st set designer? |
Giacomo Torelli | "great wizard" developed "pole and chariot" system, theatre designer |
Franceso and Isabella Andreini | members of I Gelosi, famous actors |
Julius Caesar Scaliger | dramatic critic, decorum and verisimilitude |
Why did the Renaissance start in Italy first? | Growth of trade and rise of the merchent class |
What explains the renewal of interest in classical dramatic traditions in this period? | Revival of teaching Greek, Fall of constantanople, publication of classic plays, Aristotle and Horace, Latin knockoffs |
What are the differences between the flat wing groove system and the pole-and chariot system? | Flat wing groove: Flats slide along grooves in floor to be pulled and pushed Pole and Chariot: Brings the flats on without people, uses mechanisms underneith the stage to pull the flats |
What are some of conventions of Commedia dell' arte? | Sources conjectural, not literary form, stock characters, lazzi & zibaldoni, organized companies |
Who were some of the memorable Commedia stock characters? | Pantalone: lecherious miserly venetian. Capitano: cowardly, braggart soldier. Dotte: foolish pendent, nosey. Zanni: servents, sly and foolish |
What are some of the possible origins of the proscenium arch? | bigger thyromata, frame of painting, triumph arches |
What were the 'rules' and 'unities' of neoclassical dramatic criticism? | Time, PLace, and Action |
What were the three locations Serlio designed for? | Tradgic: street of stately houses. Comic: common street scene. Pastoral: trees, hills, cottages. |