1. Second Semester Changes Seating Charts – will last for the semester Bring a pencil or borrow from someone else; I’m not buying any this semester1 Hall Passes – 4 per semester – sign out to go. Dear on Friday – Bring a book/magazine/newspaper Notebooks – Will be checked each Friday – 50 points each check – Three sections Notes and Handouts Openers Homework

2. Opening Agenda Things to Get: One piece of notebook paper The article and the note sheet Things to Do: Opener on your own paper return reading Class work: Commedia dell’Arte notes

3. Opener Read the article entitled “The Italian Renaissance” and answer the following questions on your own notebook paper. 1) What were the Neoclassical ideals and why were they very important? 2) What is verisimilitude and how did it influence Renaissance playwrights? 3) How did innovations in visual art influence the Renaissance theatre? 4) Who were the most important individuals in Renaissance theatre innovations? 5) List five examples of things these individuals developed. 6) What was the proscenium arch’s purpose in Renaissance theatre? 7) Why were Renaissance theaters larger and larger and deeper and deeper 8) Was new scenery created for each play?

4. Commedia dell’Arte

5. improvisational comedy Traveling actors invented dialogue for bare plot outline Used novels, gossip, and current events cast of 12 stock characters (stereotyped personalities) 9 men/3 women – all played by men

6. History and Background 1500-1700’s Italy Manager led troupe/wrote scripts 2 Stock character types: upper class and servant class Characters identified by costumes/masks Mobile stage

7. Scenarios -plot outlines posted backstage before each performance Lazzi -memorized lines/humorous scenes -apart from main action -ignored by main characters

8. Stock Characters Pulcinella hunchback chases women zanni La Ruffiana (Old Woman) mother or gossipy townswoman intrudes into the lives of the Lovers. Zanni poor servants from Bergamo, Italy move to Venice for better jobs

9. Arlecchino Servant zanni poor peasant Illiterate, pretends to read Acrobat/clown hits other characters with a baton or stick-slapstick (homey the clown) patchworked clothing shows poor status/resourcefulness

10. Brighella fat and slow always the butt of a joke simpelton told not to do things but desires get the better of him or her

11. Columbina maidservant to the lovers lover of Arlecchino intelligent

12. Dottore local aristocrat Doctor snobbish rich adores food and good wine, fat

13. Capitano Boastful but cowardly Spainard Brags of battles never fought and romances never experienced (who does he look like?)

15. Pantalone rich and miserly merchant father of one of the lovers employs Arlecchino and treats him cruelly

16. Pedrolino Overly kind zanni Gets blamed for everything and he agrees that it is always his fault

17. Commedia dell-arte On the bottom of your notes: While watching the following clip, identify similarities between the Commedia dell-arte characteristics and Whose Line is it anyways.

18. Opening Agenda Things to Get: One piece of notebook paper The article and the note sheet Things to Do: Opener Review Questions 5 minutes Reading with questions do both on the same piece of paper return reading Class work: Elizabethan Theatre notes

19. Opener Review 1. Define Commedia Dell Arte. 2. What modern character was modeled after Arrlecchino? 3. True or False: Commedia Dell Arte was improvisational comedy with fully written scripts. 4. True or False: Women acted in Commedia Dell Arte. 5. True or False: Lazzi were memorized lines used if improv was not working.

20. From Italy to England

21. The Elizabethan Theatre The Elizabethan Age 1. Where is the Renaissance known as “The Elizabethan Age”? 2. What allowed for the theatre to develop during this time period? 3. Why were Elizabethan Theatres outside of city limits? 4. Describe what a typical Elizabethan theater looked like: 5. How did plays written in England differ from plays written in Italy and on the European continent? 6. Who was Christopher Marlowe? 7. What type of dramatic poetry did he use? Describe this form of poetry:

22. The Elizabethan Age England’s Renaissance – named after Queen Elizabeth 1 st – love of language and the art of theater

23. Developments to Theater Went from amateur status to professional status – Effect: Companies of professional actors gave playwrights a more stable and experienced group of performers Building of permanent theaters – Spaces were now specifically designed to present plays

24. Theater Hating The church thought that “all theatre that was not religious in nature was evil” – No theaters in London White Flag flying= play today The Globe Theater

25. Theater Construction Circular or octagonal Three stories Open roof Open platform with little or no scenery placed on it Plat form stage surrounded on three sides by an audience (closer to a proscenium arch stage) – Tiring house: stage house; backdrop for the action – Inner Stage: roofed area that was used to suggest an inside setting (back of the platform) – Musicians’ gallery: where a small group of musicians would play music

30. Form of English Plays Series of brief scenes that frequently changed location from place to place – one group of characters left the stage and another group entered, the audience knew that the scene was changing – spoken décor: when a character signals a scene change by announcing it freer use of stage space Iambic pentameter: words have 2 syllables to each beat and when spoken, stress is place on the second beat

31. Spectators Wealthy got benches “Groundlings”>poorer people stood and watched from the courtyard (“pit”) All but wealthy were uneducated/illiterate Much more interaction than today

32. Actors Only men and boys Young boys whose voices had not changed play women’s roles Would have been considered indecent for a woman to appear on stage

33. William Shakespeare Widely regarded as the greatest writer in English Literature

34. Shakespeare 1563-1616 Stratford-on-Avon, England wrote 37 plays about 154 sonnets started out as an actor

35. Stage Celebrity Actor for Lord Chamberlain’s Men (London theater co.) Also > principal playwright for them 1599> Lord Ch. Co. built Globe Theater where most of Sh. Play’s were performed

36. Shakespeare wrote: Comedies Histories Tragedies

37. Romeo and Juliet Written about 1595 Considered a tragedy West Side Story (Movie) based on R&J

38. Film Activity – 20 Points After watching the following clip, describe the way in which the Elizabethan stage influences the play. – Four sentences minimum…. well developed thoughts only.

39. Exit Slip 1.In what country was Elizabethan Theatre? 2.Did they have professionals with permanent buildings or traveling amateurs? 3.Did the Church support plays during this time as positive influences on society? 4.True or False: The most expensive seats were closest to the stage. 5.True or False: Women traditionally acted in Elizabethan Theatre.