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Ch5: Creating a Professional Theatre
Elizabethan England, Italian Commedia dell’Arte, and Seventeenth-Century France
9943028 王怡雯
William Shakespeare
• 1564-1616 • A poet, playwright and actor• English Renaissance• Works—Histories– Richard III – Henry VI– King John
Works--Comedies• As You Like It• The Comedy of Errors• The Merchant of Venice• The Tempest • Twelfth Night• A Midsummer Night's Dream
Works--Tragedies• Romeo and Juliet• Coriolanus• Titus Andronicus • Timon of Athens • Julius Caesar• Macbeth • Hamlet• Troilus and Cressida • King Lear• Othello• Antony and Cleopatra• Cymbeline
Works--Poems
• Shakespeare's sonnets• Venus and Adonis• The Rape of Lucrece• The Passionate Pilgrim• The Phoenix and the Turtle• A Lover's Complaint
Italian Commedia dell’Arte
• A humorous theatrical presentation performed by professional players who traveled in troupes throughout Italy in the 16th century.
• Temporary stages (ex: city streets, court venues)
• Music, dance and dialogue spread throughout Europe, with many of its elements persisting into present-day theater.
http://youtu.be/h_0TAXWt8hYhttp://youtu.be/XQUiNDZM9aE
Molière• Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622-1673)• French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the
greatest masters of comedy in Western literature.
• Best-known works:– Le Misanthrope (The Misanthrope)– L'École des Femmes (The School for Wives)– Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur (Tartuffe or the Hypocrite)– L'Avare (The Miser) – Le Malade Imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid)– Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (The Bourgeois Gentleman)
Tartuffe• 劇情描述宗教騙子 Tartuffe為了騙得貴族
Orgon的財產以偽裝的虔誠取得 Orgon對他的信任。而 Orgon的家人巧妙的揭露了Tartuffe的真面目,使 Orgon恍然大悟,而原形畢露的 Tartuffe企圖陷害 Orgon,但最終仍遭到了應有的報應。
• Trailer: http://youtu.be/vZLbgdIuaJM