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Lecture Slides Living Theatre A HISTORY OF THEATRE SEVENTH EDITION EDWIN WILSON ALVIN GOLDFARB

Lecture Slides Living Theatre A HISTORY OF THEATRE SEVENTH EDITION EDWIN WILSON ALVIN GOLDFARB. The Theatre of the English Renaissance. Chapter 7.

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Lecture Slides Living Theatre A HISTORY OF THEATRE SEVENTH EDITION EDWIN WILSON ALVIN GOLDFARB

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  1. Lecture SlidesLiving TheatreA HISTORY OF THEATRESEVENTH EDITION EDWIN WILSON ALVIN GOLDFARB

  2. The Theatre of the English Renaissance Chapter 7

  3. Julius Caesar at Shakespeare's Globe, directed by Dominic Dromgoole. George Irving as Julius Caesar, Christopher Logan as Casca [stabbing Caesar] (2014).

  4. Lecture Preview • English Renaissance Historical Background • The Early Drama of the English Renaissance • Elizabethan Drama • Elizabethan Playwrights • Elizabethan Theatres • Elizabethan Acting Companies • Jacobean and Caroline Drama • Summary

  5. Years: Begins in 1485 with King Henry VII 1485–1509) Ends in 1642 with English Civil War English Renaissance: Historical Background • Names: • English Renaissance • Early modern England • Elizabethan period

  6. English Renaissance: Historical Background Major Events: • Protestant Reformation • King Henry VIII (1509–1547) • Defeat of Spanish Armada (1588) • Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603) • Thomas More’s Utopia (1551)

  7. The Early Drama of the English Renaissance Gammer Gurton’s Needle directed by Freddie Bujko, University of Hull (2013).

  8. The Early Drama of the English Renaissance • Interludes • School drama • Classical and medieval influences • Nicholas Udall’s Ralph Roister Doister (late 1530s) • Gammer Gurton’s Needle, written in the late 1550s • Boys’ companies

  9. The Early Drama of the English Renaissance • University Wits • University graduates and professional dramatists • Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593), Thomas Kyd (1558–1594), John Lyly (1554–1606), and Robert Greene (1588–1592). • Full-length dramas • Gorboduc, or Ferrex and Porrex, written by Thomas Norton (1532–1584) and Thomas Sackville (1536–1608), first English tragedy

  10. Elizabethan Drama Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, Jude Law (Faustus), London (2002).

  11. Elizabethan Drama: Roman influence • Seneca • revenge-obsessed characters • violence onstage • supernatural beings • Plautus and Terence’s comic plots and techniques • Adaptation of Roman (and English) history • Borrowed plotlines from Italian Renaissance literature

  12. Elizabethan Drama: Rejection of Neoclassicism • Medieval episodic plot structure • Multiple plots • Multiple locations • Multiple times • Violence and supernatural characters • Soliloquies • Comedy and tragedy

  13. Elizabethan Playwrights: Christopher Marlowe • Dramatic poetry (“mighty line”) —iambic pentameter • Abstract “morality play” idea adapted into full-length • Chronicle play • Plays • Life and times Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)

  14. Elizabethan Playwrights : William Shakespeare • Elements of plays • Life and Times Hand-colored woodcut portrait of William Shakespeare (1564–1616) by Martin Droeshout, from the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623.

  15. Elizabethan Playwrights : William Shakespeare • Plays • Tragedies • Comedies • Histories • Problem plays • Collaborations Cobbe Shakespeare portrait.

  16. Elizabethan Playwrights : William Shakespeare • Skill and Diversity • New form • Characters • Language Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role of Hamlet, directed by Lyndsey Turner, London (2015).

  17. Elizabethan Theatres and Production Practices: Problems of Research

  18. Elizabethan Theatres: Types • Public/Outdoor/Amphitheater • Larger • Open to the sky • Charged less for admission • Located outside city limits • Private/Indoor/Hall Interior of Fortune Theatre, London (ca. 1620).

  19. Elizabethan Theatres: Public Outdoor Theatres Watercolor of the Globe Theatre, Southwark, London, 1616 by the Dutch engraver, Claes Jansz Visscher (1587–1652). • The stage • Size and shape • Audience seating • The Tiring House • Doors • Above • Heavens

  20. Elizabethan Theatres: Private Indoor Theatres • Size • Audience seating • Stage • Controversies • Stage • Tiring House Bear-Baiting in Westminster (1821).

  21. Elizabethan Theatres: Scenery and Costumes Measure for Measure at Shakespeare's Globe, directed by Dominic Dromgoole. Mariah Gale as Isabella, Kurt Egyiawan as Angelo (2015).

  22. Elizabethan Acting Companies and Practices • Licensing • Lord Chamberlain’s Men • Lord Admiral’s Men

  23. Elizabethan Acting Companies and Practices: Organization of Acting Companies • Shareholders • Hirelings • Apprentices

  24. Elizabethan Acting Companies and Practices: Realism? • Evidence for realism • Evidence against realism Model of the Rose Theatre.

  25. Elizabethan Acting Companies and Practices: Famous Actors • Richard Burbage (1567–1619) • Edward Alleyn (1566–1626) • Will Kempe (?–1603)

  26. Elizabethan Acting Companies and Practices: Female Characters and Acting Practices Representation of Female Characters in Elizabethan Theatre • Cross-dressing Assessing acting practices • Stage conventions

  27. Jacobean and Caroline Drama Eve Best, Harry Lloyd in The Duchess of Malfi, London, Old Vic (2012).

  28. Jacobean and Caroline Drama: Background • James I (1603–1625) • Charles I (1625–1642) • Commonwealth (1629–1660)

  29. Jacobean and Caroline Drama: Playwrights Ben Jonson • Playwright, literary critic, poet, and actor • Neoclassical rules • Comedy of Humours • Plays • Life and times • Masques

  30. Jacobean and Caroline Drama: Playwrights FPO Frontispiece for The Duchess of Malfi John Webster • Plays • Duchess of Malfi

  31. Jacobean and Caroline Drama: Playwrights Beaumont and Fletcher • Tragicomedy • Partnership • Plays Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

  32. Jacobean and Caroline Drama: The Masque Court Entertainment: The Masque • Form • Spectacle • Honored the monarch • Introduced Italianate scenery into England • Writer and designers Inigo Jones design for “a fiery spirit” for Thomas Campion's Lord's Masque.

  33. Jacobean and Caroline Drama: The Masque Inigo Jones • Court architect and designer • Italian scenery and elaborate costumes • Masques end under Puritan rule Inigo Jones design for Florimene (1635).

  34. Summary • The Early Drama of the English Renaissance • Elizabethan Drama • Elizabethan Playwrights • Elizabethan Theatres • Elizabethan Acting Companies and Practices • Jacobean and Caroline Playwrights • Jacobean and Caroline Court Masques

  35. End of Lecture SlidesLiving TheatreA HISTORY OF THEATRESEVENTH EDITION EDWIN WILSON ALVIN GOLDFARBFor additional resources, visit digital.wwnorton.com/livingtheatre7

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