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Theatre History I

English Renaissance 1485 Henry VII- 1642 Puritans close theatres 1534 Henry VIII establishes Anglican Church 1558-1603 Elizabeth I on throne 1560s Red Lion first London theatre 1564 Lord Chamberlains men established 1574 James Burbages Ear of Leicesters Men 1576 Lord Admirals Men established 1576 Burbage builds The Theatre 1583 Mary Queen of Scots executed 1584 1587 1588 1588 1590 1599 Sir Walter Raleigh sails to Virginia Thomas Kyd The Spanish Tragedy Spanish Armada defeated Marlowe Doctor Faustus Shakespeare to London Globe theatre was built

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Shakespeare 1564-1587 Stratford on Avon 1590 London 1592 Comedy of Errors 1595 R&J and Midsummers 1595-1613 is a member of Lord Cs Men 1600 Hamlet 1604 Othello 1606 Macbeth

Jacobean Era James I 1603-1625 1603 Lord Cs men 1606 Ben Jonson Volpone 1611 King James Bible 1611 Last mystery play performance 1613 John Webster D of Malfi 1605-1620 Inigo Jones designs masques that Jonson writes

9/27/2013 11:54:00 AM TRAGEDY COMEDY SYTIRE Euripides 480-406 B.C. o Considered most modern: Portrayal of women Greater realisim Tragedy and comedy mix Skeptical of the gods 5 of 92 plays won prizes 18 survived: Medea 431, Trojan Women415, The Bacchae 406 Amphitheatre o Theatre of Dionysus in Athens 15,000-17,000 spectators o Theatron: seating area o Orchestra: playing area o Skene: scene building o Thymele: altar in orchestra o Pinake (flat), Periaktoi (3 sides)

o Special effects: Mechane, Ekkylema Everyone was masked : chorus and actors Tragic characters wore tunic and cloak o Comic characters tight fitting to exaggerate features, also wore phallus. o Kothornus in Hellenistic Spring festival honoring the god Dionysus (god of theatre and wine) 335 BC: Aristotle o 6 Elements of drama Plot, Characters, Thought or Theme, Language, Music and Spectacle. Tragedy: Royal reversal of fortune Studied with Plato 20 years Tutored Alexander the Great Drama= emotional purge Poetics description based on observation

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o Crisis Drama: action begins near the climax of story. Misinterpreted later as Neoclassic unities. Satyr Plays Short play after 3 tragedies Parody of mythological heroic tales. Vulgar, bawdy chorus of satyrs with phallus Old Comedy Arstophones wrote all that survive. Pokes fucn at society and politics and culture. Satire, fantastical and improbable plots. Same basic structure as Agon (debate) and Parabasisis (Chorus makes in fun of the audience).

TIMELINE 800 BC- age of homer 534- Play contests begin in Athens 510- Athenian Demoncracy 499-449 Persian wars 487- Comedy added to City Dionysa 471- Aeschylus adds second actor 468- Sophocles adds 3rd actor 458- Aeschylus Oresteia, skene added 431-4040 Pelopnnesian wards 430 sophocles King Oedipus 415 Euripides Trojan women 411 Aristophanes Lysistrata 335-323 Aristotles Poetics 335: Alexander the great in power, occupies Greece 325 theatre of Dionysus completed 320-100 Greek theatres spread through the Mediterranean

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