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Theatre History, Italian Renaissance

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Pastorals   a literary or other artistic work that portrays or evokes rural life, usually in an idealized way.  
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Intermezzi   A comic play with music performed between the acts, popular in the 16th and 17th centuries in France and Italy.  
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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."  
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Zibaldoni   manuscripts compiled by commedia actors containing jokes, comic buisness and repeated scenes and speeches.  
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Sacra rappresentazione   "sacred representations" religious dramas in medevil style, stories from bible and saints  
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Perspective   Illusion of depth in painting  
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Teatro Olimpico   oldest surviving theatre constructed during italian renaissance. 1st indoor theatre, persepective  
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Teatro Farnese   part of a court, first procineum arch.  
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Angled wing   Flats hinged in a fixed position and painted in perspective, placed one behind the other  
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Flat wing   a non angled wing, parrallel to audeience. painted in perspective  
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I Gelosi   a famous commedia acting company, all family  
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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.  
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verisimilitude   true to life  
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Libretto   The text of a dramatic musical work, such as an opera.  
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Sebastiano Serlio   Introduced perspective, angled wings, raked stage, 1st set designer?  
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Giacomo Torelli   "great wizard" developed "pole and chariot" system, theatre designer  
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Franceso and Isabella Andreini   members of I Gelosi, famous actors  
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Julius Caesar Scaliger   dramatic critic, decorum and verisimilitude  
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Why did the Renaissance start in Italy first?   Growth of trade and rise of the merchent class  
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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  
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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  
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What are some of conventions of Commedia dell' arte?   Sources conjectural, not literary form, stock characters, lazzi & zibaldoni, organized companies  
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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  
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What are some of the possible origins of the proscenium arch?   bigger thyromata, frame of painting, triumph arches  
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What were the 'rules' and 'unities' of neoclassical dramatic criticism?   Time, PLace, and Action  
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What were the three locations Serlio designed for?   Tradgic: street of stately houses. Comic: common street scene. Pastoral: trees, hills, cottages.  
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