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    The Renaissance theatre arts from 1400-1600 saw a return to classical Greek and Roman styles. Morality plays were popular, using allegorical characters to depict moral dilemmas. Universities performed tragedies recreating Athenian works. Public theaters arose like Commedia dell'arte, known for improvised performances by traveling troupes in masks, and masques, elaborate entertainments with music, dance, and costumed players. Queen Elizabeth I was a prominent theater patron. Playwrights like Shakespeare and Marlowe wrote histories, tragedies, and comedies depicting life in London and European courts. Ballet also developed from Italian styles popularized in French courts.

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    The Renaissance theatre arts from 1400-1600 saw a return to classical Greek and Roman styles. Morality plays were popular, using allegorical characters to depict moral dilemmas. Universities performed tragedies recreating Athenian works. Public theaters arose like Commedia dell'arte, known for improvised performances by traveling troupes in masks, and masques, elaborate entertainments with music, dance, and costumed players. Queen Elizabeth I was a prominent theater patron. Playwrights like Shakespeare and Marlowe wrote histories, tragedies, and comedies depicting life in London and European courts. Ballet also developed from Italian styles popularized in French courts.

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    The Renaissance theatre arts from 1400-1600 saw a return to classical Greek and Roman styles. Morality plays were popular, using allegorical characters to depict moral dilemmas. Universities performed tragedies recreating Athenian works. Public theaters arose like Commedia dell'arte, known for improvised performances by traveling troupes in masks, and masques, elaborate entertainments with music, dance, and costumed players. Queen Elizabeth I was a prominent theater patron. Playwrights like Shakespeare and Marlowe wrote histories, tragedies, and comedies depicting life in London and European courts. Ballet also developed from Italian styles popularized in French courts.

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    The key takeaways are that Renaissance theatre was characterized by a return to classical Greek and Roman arts and culture. Major forms of theatre that developed during this period included morality plays, university drama, public theatres like Commedia dell'arte, and elaborate masques.

    Renaissance theatre developed from morality plays which tried to promote religious messages, to university drama which aimed to recreate Greek tragedies. Public theatres also emerged featuring forms like Commedia dell'arte, known for improvisation, and elaborate masques involving dance, music, and costumes.

    Some characteristics of Commedia dell'arte include the use of masked types and improvised performances based on scenarios or sketches. It also featured stock characters and lazzi (jokes/routines). Pantomime was also commonly used especially by the character of Arlecchino.

    Renaissance Theatre (1400 –

    1600 )
    GROUP 4
    9-MOLAVE
     Renaissance theater arts were characterized by a return of Classical
    Greek and Roman arts and culture.
     Morality plays (in which the protagonist was met by personifications of
    moral attributes who try to choose a Godly life over the evil.
     University Drama were formed to recreate Athenian tragedy.
     Public theatre were developed like the Commedia dell’arte and the
    elaborate masques.
     Commedia dell’arte > Italian comedy and a humorous
    theatrical presentation performed by professional players
    who travelled in troupes.
     Elaborate masques > a dramatic entertainment consisting of
    pantomime, dancing, dialogue, and song and sometimes
    players wore masks.
    Commedia dell’arte

    • Commedia is a form of theatre characterized


    by masked types which began in Italy in the
    16th century and was responsible for the advent
    of actresses ISABELLA ANDREINI
    • Improvised performance based on sketches
    or scenarios.
    • A commedia, such as The Tooth Puller, is both
    scripted and improvised.
    • Characters' entrances and exits are scripted.
    Commedia dell’arte

    • A special characteristic of commedia dell'arte are


    the lazzi.
    • A lazzo is a joke or "something foolish or witty", usually
    well known to the performers and to some extent a
    scripted routine.
    • Another characteristic of commedia
    dell'arte is pantomime, which is mostly used by the
    character Arlecchino (Harlequin).
    knight Masque

    Costume for a Knight, by Inigo Jones: the


    plumed helmet, the "heroic torso" in armour
    and other conventions were still employed
    for opera seria in the 18th century.
     Queen Elizabeth I – one of the most prominent supporters of the theatre.
     The companies of actors were organized by aristocrats and performed seasonally in
    many places. They were called professional players that performed on the Elizabethan
    stage.
     Gorboduc (also known as Ferrex and Porrex) was an English play and first performed
    at the Christmas celebration in 1561; and performed before Queen Eizabeth I on
    January 18, 1562 by the Gentlemen of the Inner Temple (one of the four INNS of court
    – professional associations for barrister and judges in London)
     Authors of the Gorboduc were Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville.
    Gorboduc’s Synopsis

     Gorboduc recounts the legend of Gorboduc, King of Britain, who divided his
    realm during his lifetime between his two sons, Ferrex and Porrox, against the
    advice of his principal advisors. The elder son, Ferrex, aggrieved at being
    denied half his inheritance and suspicious of his younger brother's ambitions,
    set about raising soldiers to defend himself against Porrox. On hearing of
    Ferrex's military preparations, Porrox sent his own troops against his elder
    brother and had him killed. Queen Videna, to avenge the death of her favourite
    elder son, brought about the murder of Porrox. The people, moved by these
    cruel and unnatural deeds, rose in rebellion and slew both King and Queen.
    Gorboduc’s Synopsis

     In the vacuum of power, the nobility united to destroy the rebels. However, since the
    succession remained uncertain, the and fell into civil war, in which both they and most
    of their offspring were destroyed, leaving the throne open to foreign claimants. At the
    end of the tragedy, Eubulus, wise counsellor and former secretary to King Gorboduc,
    predicted 'the woeful wrack and utter ruin of this noble realm' for want of an
    established heir. Having drawn a bleak picture of murder, rape and pillage, Eubulus
    brings the drama to an end on a more optimistic note: Of justice, yet must God restore
    This noble crown unto the lawful heir: For right will always live, and rise at length, But
    wrong can never take deep root to last. After all that has occurred, his optimism is
    unconvincing.
     William Shakespeare – the famous actor and poet
    who emerged in this period.
     baptized on April 26, 1564 and died on April 23,
    1616.
     He was an English poet, playwright and actor and
    regarded as the greatest writer and dramatist in
    the whole world.
     as often called as the England’s national poet and
    the “Bard of Avon”
    William Shakespear

    His works consists of 38 plays The four greatest works of Tragedies

     Romeo and Juliet  Hamlet


     Hamlet  Othello
     Midsummer Night’s Dream  King Lear
     Cleopatra  Macbeth
     Julius Caesar
     Much Ado about Nothing
    Romeo and Juliet by William
    Shakespear
    Other Contemporary Playwrights

     Christopher Marlowe Greatest works:

     Dr. Faustus
     The Jew of Malta
    Doctor faustus
    Other Contemporary Playwrights

     Thomas Kyd
     was an English playwright, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one
    of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama.
     Greatest works:
     The Spanish tragedy
     Cornelia
    The Spanish tragedy
    History plays - depicted English or
    European history
     Shakespeare’s History plays:  Christopher Marlowe’s history
     Richard III plays:

     Henry V  Edward II
     Edward I
    Comedies - dealt with life in
    London Some of the comedy plays
     The Shoemaker’s Holiday by Thomas Dekker
     A Chaste Maid in Cheapside by Thomas Middleton
     Ballet was first performed in public.
     Is a formalized form of dance which originated from the
    Italian Renaissance courts.
     It developed from Italy to France with the help of
    Catherine de’ Medici (Queen of France)
     Le Paradis d’ Amour, the early example of Catherine’s
    development of ballet.
     Is a piece of work presented at her daughter’s wedding,
    Marguerite de Valois to Henri of Navarre.
     Ballet des Polonais in 1573
     the first formal “court ballet” ever recognized.
     was commissioned by Catherine de Medici to
    honor the Polish Ambassadors who visited Paris
    for the enthronement of King Henry in Poland.
    Proscenium stage

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