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Theatre in the Middle Ages

Theatre in the Middle Ages. Early Christianity’s Role. 6th Century Catholic Church banned all theatre productions Decayed Morally Against man pretending to be what he is not. Churches Role Continued. Tenth Century Religious drama was allowed

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Theatre in the Middle Ages

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  1. Theatre in the Middle Ages

  2. Early Christianity’s Role • 6th Century Catholic Church banned all theatre productions • Decayed Morally • Against man pretending to be what he is not

  3. Churches Role Continued • Tenth Century • Religious drama was allowed • Due to illiteracy drama was a way to teach Christian doctrine, stories and history • Plays evolved from simple dramatized stories to “Miracle Pageants”

  4. The Renaissance • 1455 Gutenberg and the printing press • Rebirth of learning and the arts • Gradually all of Europe reading and writing • Neoclassical age

  5. Renaissance Playwrights • Playwriting epdemic • Hans Sachs • Spain • France • England

  6. A little Clip about Renaissance Theatre

  7. Spanish Theatre • Golden Age • 30,000 plays written • Lope de Vega • Cervantes • Calderon

  8. French Theatre • Racine • Cornielle • Moliere

  9. English Theatre • Neoclassical Playwrights left more plays than any other country or period in history • Marlowe • Thomas Kyd • Shakespeare

  10. Shakespeare • Greatest tragic playwright ever • Finest Comic playwright • Borrowed most of is plots from other plays and stories • Developed these plots more deeply • Language most lyrical and profound ever written by a playwright • Themes are universal

  11. A Clip from Twelfth Night

  12. Renaissance Italy’s contribution • Italy seat of the Renaissance • Produced no lasting playwrights • Created two new drama forms • Develped setting through which toay’s theatre of realism would be viewed

  13. Opera • Group of writers and musicians in Florence • Recreate music used by Greek tragedians • Failed at that, but created a merging of music and drama = opera • Montverde

  14. Commedia dell’arte • Drama by professional actors • Touring professional troupes • Used stock characters • Improvised stories • Popular from 16th cent. To the beginning of the 18th cent. • “Slapstick” originated with this genre

  15. Italy continued • Proscenium Arch • Perspective

  16. Europe from Renaissance to Realism • 1650-1870 • Goldoni • Goldsmith • Sheridan • Wilde • Romantics • Rights of the common man

  17. Age of Realism • Nineteenth Century • Darwin • America’s emergence as a credible country

  18. Founding Playwrights of the Age of Realism • Henrik Ibsen Norway • Social justice • Women’s equality • Harsh and controversial • Arthur Miller • Anton Chekhov • George Bernard Shaw • Plays during this age were about the common man with common problems

  19. Emergence of Directors • Until the end of the 19th century managers and producers handled coordinated it all • Duke of Sace-Meiningen • Constantine Stanislavski • Reinhardt Copeau

  20. The Duke • Abolished star system • Actors worked as an ensemble • Insistence on exact technical details

  21. Stanislavski • Russian • Established Moscow Art Theatre • Most insightful and innovate director • The Method • Listen and react • Ensemble

  22. Reinhardt and Copeau • Mold and fashion plays how they wanted them • Made an impact in native countries as well as US

  23. Nonrealistic Theatre • Theatre of symbolism • Influenced by symbolistic art and music of the late 19th century • Tried to show meaning and emotion • August Strindberg • Maurice Maeterlink • Gerog Kaiser • Thornton Wilder

  24. Theatre of the Absurd • Tried to find meaning in a world that has no meaning • Believed there was no god and no life after death • Outraged b the destruction of war • Tried to show uselessness and absurdity of life • Used humorous dialogue and actions • Usually disjointed and senseless • Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco

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