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General Characteristics of Drama
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DRAMA
-made to be seen
-characters <-> audience = feelings
-dialogues made in verse or in prose
-types : tragedy, comedy, opera, melodrama, docudrama
-characters divided in protagonists and antagonists
techniques : dialogues, monologues, soliqui
-element most important=magic
-music (and also light) creates the atmosphere
SOME WE HAVE STUDIED
-OTHELLO
-ROMEO AND JULIET
-EVERYMAN
-MACBETH
STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS MORE IN DETAIL : ACTORS, PLAYWRIGHTS AND AUDIENCE
GLOSSARY
STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS
AUDIENCE :
-ALL THE SOCIAL STRATA OF ELIZABETHAN SOCIETY
-SOCIALISATION, INTERACTION AND COMMENTS DURING THE SHOW
PLAYWRIGHTS :
-MODEST BACKGROUND
-THE COMPANY FIRST OF ALL
ACTORS :
-NO WOMAN INCLUDED
-SHAREHOLDERS OF THEIR COMPANY
SIMILIAR QUESTIONS
-What is a play?
-What is a performance?
-What is a setting?
-What is a stage?
WHY LONDON?
THE ROLE OF LONDON
ADVANTAGES:
-CENTRE OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL POWER
-RIVER THAMES : CITY'S MAIN MEANS OF CONNECTION TO THE REST OF THE WORLD
-CITY OF ENTERTAINMENT
-CITY WHERE THE COURT AND THE QUEEN LIVED
DISADVANTAGES:
-POLLUTED AND DANGEROUS CITY
-RIVER THAMES : PLAYHOUSES MIAN SOURCE OF DIRTINESS
ELIZABTHAN PLAYHOUSE
PLAYHOUSE
THE OLD AND THE NEW GLOBE THEATRE
ELIZABETHAN THEATRES
OLD THEATRE :
-OPENED IN 1599
-OWNED BY SIX MEN, BUT MOSTLY BY BROTHERS RICHARD AND CURTBETH BURBAGE
-IT LASTED ONLY 14 YEARS
-AFTER BEING REBUILT THE FOLLOWING YEAR, IT WAS DESTROYED IN 1644
GLOBE THEATRE :
-IDEA OF SAM WANAMAKER
-LOCATED ON BANKSIDE
-SIMILIA TO THE ORIGINAL
-MODERN DIFFERENCES : STATE-OF-THE-ART LIGHTING AND THE EVER-PRESENT SPRINKLERS IN CASE OF FIRE
ELIZABETHAN PLAYWRIGHTS
-MARLOWE'S MODERNITY : he didn't respect the Aristotele's units. Both comic and tragic tones
-REVENGE TRAGEDIES by SENECA : insistence of horrors
-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE : he didn't respect Aristotele's units. First phase=revenge tragedy, history plays; second phase= human soul and the complexities of human life, historical plays and comedies; third phase=dark comedies; fourth phase=romances plays
-BEN JONSON : he respected the Aristotele's units. Both tragedy and comedies, and also comedies of humor.
-WEBSTER AND FORD: both of them were characterised by Italian setting, bloodcurdling scenes and plots full of murderous actions and intrigues.