Elizabethan Theatre Terms

To uphold good morals and to celebrate art.

For the 1st time, theatre artists earned a living practicing their art.

a production concerned itself with the purpose, decorum, form, the unities, etc.

A 4 point analysis includes all of the following except...

Contained Patent Holding Members, Apprentices, and Hired Men. performed requested by the queen

Permission AND the funding from a monarch allowing an artist to build, create theatre company.

If all rules of theatre (form, decorum, etc.) are not followed, it was...

Italian street theatre-plays = scenarios (solely improvised)-Stock characters

The Unity of Time. The unity of Place. The Unity of Action. These are referred to as...

A monologue to the audience expressing the character’s inner thoughts and feelings.

Classically, always ends with a marriage. Deals w/ common folk & w/ common language

the current situation : the way things are now

Older men who were hired to do odd jobs and play small roles in plays.

young men brought to a theatre to live and learn from artists until 18 years old.

Actors had to portray their characters w/the correct class, status in society, & gender.

extravagant theatrical events put on by the lords & ladies at court for fun at huge expense.

The poorer audience members. paid a penny to see a play. Stood to watch.

monarch of the Renaissance period. Known for her passion for the arts, and religious tolerance.

the ideal concept that tragedies should be tragic and comedies purely comedy.

A style of the period assumed that all plays would have five acts.