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- MOLIERE
- French playwright, ridicules people and ideas, hypocrisy, medicine, and forced marriages.
- SONNET
- Merged elements of contempt Italian life with structure of Roman comedy.
- FRANCE
- 2 forms of comedy
- IAMB
- Metrical foot, unaccented followed by accent.
- PENTAMETER
- a verse line having five metrical feet
- Petrarch
- Sonnets to Laura: father of humanism
- CASTIGLIONE
- Set the bar for courtiers. Things to strive for, how to look cool and be cool. "Book of the courtier." More impact than Machaivelli's book. By 1600, the book had been translated to all European language
- PETRARCH
- ababcdcdefefgg, Undying love for Laura. Father of humanism
- BROWNING
- Victorian age writer - Sonnets about her husband Abbaaddacdcd Enjambment, no end punctuation. Can be read as a poem.
- PASTORAL
- Gets absorbed into French opera. Most important comedies in Italy.
- COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE
- Comedy improvised with written scenarios with stock characters.
- CERVANTES
- Like Castiglione. Soldier, diplomat but not as successful. 5 years held for ransom by the moors. 20-30 plays only 2 survived. *Writer of prose. Novellas Etemplares - love, idealism, gypsies, fantasy.
- OPERA
- Attempt to create Greek drama. True child of Italian Renaissance. Primary focus is on script and production.
- MACHIAVELLI
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- MACHIAVELLI
- Writer of prints and discourses. La Mandragola - makes play likable, admired for characterization and construction.
- PETRARCH
- 1st modern attempt to write a classical comedy. Philodea
- SONNET
- Little song, 14 lines with iambic pentameter. Poems of love addressed to objects of poets affection.
- 3 TYPES OF PLAYS
- Comedy, tragedy, histories
- IAMBIC PENTAMETER
- A line of poetry that contains five iambic feet.
- CONFLICTING INFLUENCES
- Nobility and royalty. Opposition from puritans. Separation of powers, puritans wanted Theatre gone.
- TRAGIC COMEDY
- Not as lengthy and bloody, better story lines. Status in women become higher. They are more able and important
- VARIOUS EVENTS
- French Parliament outlawed Mystery plays. Theatre becomes more secular(worldly) French Learned comedies fill in the hole Comedia Eriudita and Dell Arte combine.
- ITALIAN TRAGEDY
- Induce wonder, pity and horror. Lengthy, bloody, complicated, boring. Featured ghosts, violence, moralizing.
- ENGLAND
- Separated by English channel. Productivity of playwright and theatrical productions. Comedy, tragedies, histories. Continental models. Pastorals become popular.
- SPENSER
- alters, ababbcbcdcdee Writes about love, modern view of love, less focus on adoration but inner beauty.