Renaissance Literature
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- Opera
- re-created greek drama, growth of lightening, theatre machinery, more costuming
- Molliere
- ridicules medicine, forced marriage, people, ideas, hypocrisy
- Shakespeare
- best dramas in England
- commedia erudita
- "learned comedy", contemp. Italian life + Roman Comedy, infl. PLautus & Terrence
- England Renaissance
- mass production of comedies, tragedies, histories
- Pastoral
- most significant tragicomedy
- 1548
- French Parliament outlaw Mystery(church) plays, resulting in more secular
- Tragicomedy
- women status elevated, no longer inferior, but clever and intelligent
- Petrarch
- famous sonnets, 1st attempt to classical comedy, Philogia, youthful foolishness
- Italian Tragedy
- "Induce Wonder, Pity, and Horror", long bloody, ghosts, moralizing
- Machiavelli
- La Mandragola, noted for characterization & construction. depravity of humans, likable rogues
- Comedy D'ellArte
- pro actors guild, improvised comedy with plot, pantolone, doctore, capitano, young hero, Ingenue, Zanni, clown,