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| What are the 6 neoclassical rules for plays? |
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| Decorum, Verisimilitude (no supernatural), Genre, Unity of Time (24 hrs), Place, and Action (one plot). |
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| Characters from middle class, stories based on domestic or private affairs, endings are happy, everyday language, teaches by ridiculing the behavior that should be avoided. |
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| Characters from ruling class, stories based on history and mythology, endings are not happy, language is poetic and loft, teaches by showing results of mistakes and misdeeds. |
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| Audience identifies with and "roots for" this character. Has the problem that needs to be solved. Present in play. Every plot line has effect on this character, because the moral of the story is directly connected. Strong motivation, strong stakes. |
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| The antagonist is the person that is opposed to or competes with the protagonist. Has strong motivation to vanquish protagonist and has high stakes in the argument/struggle. Present in play. |
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| Mask, patched costume, slapstick. Commedia clown. |
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| Funny physical stage action. Hilarious situations. |
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| Improvised comic okays performed by itinerant companies. Actors each played a stock character type and improvised the action according to a shared outline plot. |
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| What are two examples of Lazzi? |
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| Harlequin pretends to catch then eat fly, Zanni wipes things on ass, 2 tied together. |
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| Name four stock characters from commedia dell’arte. Give examples. |
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Braggart and coward: Claudius - Hamlet
Young lovers: Mariane and Valere - Tartuffe
Lecherous old man in love with young lady: Menaechmus I
Zanni, or tricky servant: Dorine - Tartuffe |
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| Give at least three examples (from any of the periods we have studied) that prove that theatre has often been regarded as a subversive force threatening those in power. |
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Neoclassical - Tartuffe - Louis XIV - The church was threatened because Tartuffe was directly accusing them of hypocrisy and blind faith. King was absolute, Richelieu and his successor both tried to smash theatre.
The History of the Elizabethan Theatre - Elizabeth I - London's authorities ban plays in the City of London. The major outbreak of the Bubonic Plague and the rowdy crowds attracted by the theaters were causing real problems in the City of London. Many Londoners were strict Protestants - Puritans in fact, who abhorred the theatres and many of the people they attracted.
The shogun in 17th century Japan, banned women and children from performing and prohibited plots involving defamation of the samurai caste. |
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