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Title: Diapositiva 1


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Origins of
English Drama
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  • The Middle Ages
  • Miracle and Mystery plays
  • Trade Guilds
  • Pageants
  • Morality plays
  • Elizabethan Theatre
  • Stage
  • Actors
  • Scenes
  • Audience
  • The Globe Theatre

Summary
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Mystery plays
  • they developed from the 10th
  • to the 16th century
  • representation of scenes
  • from the Bible
  • they were performed in
  • churches

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  • little by little, out into the churchyard
  • then, on pageants
  • responsibility taken on by the trade guilds

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  • Miracle plays
  • Representation of lives of saints
  • Combination of professional and
  • amateur actors
  • Performed on pageants
  • Acted in English

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  • Trade Guilds
  • they were groups of
  • tradesmen and artisans
  • guild derives from the Old
  • English geld, which means
  • payment
  • on particular feast days
  • they prepared biblical plays
  • to perform

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Pageants
  • processions associated with secular and
    religious rituals
  • important aspect of the celebration of Corpus
    Christi

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  • re-enacted the entire history of salvation
  • plays were performed
  • in wagons (pageants)
  • each sponsored by a
  • guild

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Morality plays
  • more refined
  • invented plots
  • personification of vices and virtues
  • didactic purpose
  • written in vernacular

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Everyman
  • Dutch Elkerlijk
  • late 15th century
  • Everyman represents all mankind
  • is summoned by God, tries to convince several
    friends to accompany him

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  • allegorical characters, personifying abstract
    ideas
  • Fellowship
  • Kindred, Cousin
  • Goods
  • Good Deeds
  • Knowledge
  • Beauty, Strength, Discretion, Five Wits

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  • Elizabethan Theatre
  • It was influenced by Humanism, which
    developed in all Europe
  • authors were supported by the Queen
  • the Queen had to approve all the plays (Master
    of Revels)
  • theatre was considered a form of
    entertainment and not an art

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The Stage
  • composed of
  • a baldachin that covered
  • it
  • the inner stage behind a
  • curtain
  • a balcony
  • a garret where there were
  • machines
  • a trap door

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  • The Audience
  • plays attracted people from all
    classes
  • Royals
  • Nobles
  • Commoners
  • a theatre could hold from 1500 to 3000 people

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  • The Scene
  • actors used very simple objects
  • actors represented physical sensation and
    feelings with words
  • the theatre building was deeply linked with the
    performance

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The actors
  • The Actors
  • the reputation of early Elizabethan actors was
    not good
  • later they became the equivalent of todays
    superstars
  • young boys played female roles

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  • it was built from the timbers of The
    Theatre in 1559
  • it went up on flames in 1613
  • it was destroyed another time by Puritans in
    1644
  • most of the Globe and all of its stage was
    open air

The Globe
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  • above the main entrance there was the
    inscription Totus mundus agit histrionem" (the
    whole world is a playhouse)
  • Richard Burbage built the Globe for the
    Chamberlains Men
  • Shakespeare appeared as an actor on
    the Globes stage
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