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Renaissance Italy
Around 1400-1700
Theatre around 1500-1700
RENAISSANCE = REBIRTH
Mona Lisa (Da Vinci, 1503-1506)
2 Forms of Italian Theatre
Commedia dell’arte
Courtly Dramas
Commedia dell’arteRefresher
Italian, 1500s-1700s
Improvisational Theatre
Unscripted, Free to watch
First female performers
Commedia dell’arteRefresher
Lazzi, burle
Innamorati, vecchi, zanni
Stock characters including Arlecchino, Pantalone, Flavio, Isabella, and Pedrolino
Courtly Dramas and Neoclassicism
… … … …
Neoclassicism or What’s With the Fancy Word, Mr. S?
ALL you need to know: Neoclassicism
means new classicism
After discovering classic books by Aristotle, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes, artists of all sorts wanted to create art based on Greek models
Italian Courtly Dramas
Members of the wealthy class built permanent indoor theatres
Era is not well known for dramatic lit, most scripts are lost
Comedy/tragedy after Roman model Major example:
Mandragola (The Mandrake) by Machiavelli
Italian Courtly Dramas
Pastoral Drama Nymphs (?) &
shepherds in love. Appeal: nostalgia,
simple life
New style: intermezzi Allegorical plot +
spectacle Courtly audience
Plays are written in the Neoclassical style
Structures & Stages
Teatro Farnese, 1618
First permanent proscenium arch stage! Creates
perspective (connects to painters of the time)
Scenic Technology
WINGS! Angled Vs. Flat Groove system (wings
slide in grooves)
Scenic Technology
Famous Renaissance Italians Niccolo Machivelli
Petrarch
Leonardo Da Vinci
Copernicus
Descartes
Galileo
Michelangelo
What Can We Do? A Play
A Presentation
A Song
A PowerPoint
A Poster Wall
Requirements: Everyone must speak Treat whatever you do
like a performance
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