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Theatre History
For Prof. Wade's Theatre History 2 class
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
03/14/2013

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Francis I
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Built Fontainebleau, brought Italian ideas to France
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Catherine de Medici
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Marries Francis I's son, connected to church
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Marie de Medici
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Cat's niece, Louis XIII's mom
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Pierre Ronsard
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Formed the Pleiade
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Pleiade
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Remolded French language
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Etienne Jodelle
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Member of Pleiade, modeled plays on classic form
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Confraternity of the Passion
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first group to perform theatrical vehicles within Paris, passion plays
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Three Main French Theatres
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Trinite, Flanders, Bourgogne
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Louis XIII
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Kind of a big deal
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Cardinal Richelieu
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Chief minister to Louis XIII, taxed nobility
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The Neoclassical Ideal
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Basically, Aristotle and vermisilitude
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Vermisilitude
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The appearance of truth
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Subsidary Goals (the "-ality"s)
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Reality, morality, universality
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The Unities (T.A.P.)
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Time, Action, Place
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Valleran Lecompte
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First important theatre manager, part of The King's Players
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Alexander Hardy
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First pro French playwright, used many of Shakespeare's devices (5 acts, poetic dialogue, messengers, chorus)
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Montdory-Guillame des Gilberts
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First important French actor
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Marie Veniere
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First important French actress
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Pierre Corneille
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Linked with triumph of NC ideal, wrote comedy of intrigue
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Hotel de Bourgogne and Theatre du Marais
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French public theatres
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Louis XIV
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King of France, ballet and opera popular during his reign
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Cardinal Mazarin
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Chief minister to Louis XIV
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Palais Royal
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Proscenium theatre
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Giocomo Torelli
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Chariot and pole system, cloud machine
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J. B. Lully
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Besties with Moliere
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French Style of Design
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Heavy line, curves, encrusted ornamentation
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Jean Racine
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Simple plots, complex characters
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J.B. Poqueline
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Moliere!
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Comedie Francaise (La Maison de Moliere)
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First national theatre, established by Louis XIV
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Inigo Jones
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Brought Italian style to England
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James I
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Jacobean Era, son of Mary Queen of Scots
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Humors
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Blood=happiness, yellow bile=violence, phlegm=cowardice, black bile=laziness
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Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
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Foundations of Jacobean drama (sensationalism)
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Charles I
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Caroline Era, married Henrietta Maria of France
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Oliver Cromwell
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First lord protector, forbade theatre
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Richard Cromwell
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Second Lord protector, kind of a weenie
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William Davenant
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The Duke's Company
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Thomas Killigrew
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The King's Company
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Thomas Betterton
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Duke's Company, Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre
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The Wits
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Stock chars, performed in pubs
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Charles II
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Restoration era, no heirs
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Catherine Braganza
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Popularized tea and forks
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Nell Gwynn
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Orange seller, "pretty, witty Nell"
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Edward Kynaston
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Last British "boy player"
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Mrs. Margaret Hughs
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First legit British actress
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James II
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Restoration era
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John Dryden
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Heroic tragedy, with idealistic hero, beautiful heroine, fulfillment of love leads to ruin, happy endings
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Types of English Restoration Comedy
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Humours, intrique, farce, manners
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Mrs. Aphra Behn
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First professional female playwright (The Rover)
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Restoration Comedy of Manners
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Upperclass characters, arrange marriages, witty repartee, some really filthy shit
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William Wycherly
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The Country Wife, Love in a Wood
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William Congreve
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Love for Love, The Way of the World
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English Dramatic Types
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Pantomimes, ballad opera, comic opera, burlesque
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Henry Fielding
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Satirical burlesque
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Philippe Jacques de Lutherbourg
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did backdrops I guess
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English Actors
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Thomas Betterton, Colley Cibber (fop), Charles Macklin, David Garrick
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Charles Macklin
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Totally killed a dude over a wig. Srsly. Shaaaaaaaade.
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David Garrick
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Coined phrase "break a leg", kicked audience off the stage, dimmed lights
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