Ch5: Creating a Professional Theatre

Elizabethan England, Italian Commedia dell’Arte, and Seventeenth-Century France

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William Shakespeare

• 1564-1616 • A poet, playwright and actor• English Renaissance• Works—Histories– Richard III – Henry VI– King John

Works--Comedies• As You Like It• The Comedy of Errors• The Merchant of Venice• The Tempest • Twelfth Night• A Midsummer Night's Dream

Works--Tragedies• Romeo and Juliet• Coriolanus• Titus Andronicus • Timon of Athens • Julius Caesar• Macbeth • Hamlet• Troilus and Cressida • King Lear• Othello• Antony and Cleopatra• Cymbeline

Works--Poems

• Shakespeare's sonnets• Venus and Adonis• The Rape of Lucrece• The Passionate Pilgrim• The Phoenix and the Turtle• A Lover's Complaint

Italian Commedia dell’Arte

Italian comedy

Italian Commedia dell’Arte

• A humorous theatrical presentation performed by professional players who traveled in troupes throughout Italy in the 16th century.

• Temporary stages (ex: city streets, court venues)

• Music, dance and dialogue spread throughout Europe, with many of its elements persisting into present-day theater.

http://youtu.be/h_0TAXWt8hYhttp://youtu.be/XQUiNDZM9aE

Molière• Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622-1673)• French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the

greatest masters of comedy in Western literature.

• Best-known works:– Le Misanthrope (The Misanthrope)– L'École des Femmes (The School for Wives)– Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur (Tartuffe or the Hypocrite)– L'Avare (The Miser) – Le Malade Imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid)– Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (The Bourgeois Gentleman)

Tartuffe• 劇情描述宗教騙子 Tartuffe為了騙得貴族

Orgon的財產以偽裝的虔誠取得 Orgon對他的信任。而 Orgon的家人巧妙的揭露了Tartuffe的真面目，使 Orgon恍然大悟，而原形畢露的 Tartuffe企圖陷害 Orgon，但最終仍遭到了應有的報應。

• Trailer: http://youtu.be/vZLbgdIuaJM