THTR-T 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Blank Verse, Christopher Marlowe, Thrust Stage
7 Dec 2017
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Smart is the new sexy -- cerebral over sensual art. Major innovations in scenery during the italian renaissance. Totally cool to be a scientist and an artist during the renaissance. Characters must be drawn according to appropriate behavior based on identifying factors such as age, sex, class, etc. Three periods in early modern england: elizabethan, jacobean, caroline. Violence, mystical stuff going on in the theatres in england. Cromwell took over and there was no theatre and then charles ii cam back in. 1660 and thesatre came back bit it was different. (women in theatre, flashy, etc) Lord chamberlain"s men - william shakespeare, richard burbage. The play"s the thing: skills of shakespeare and friends. Blank verse (unrhymed) - christopher marlowe was the first to master it (dr. fastus) John ford tis pity she"s a whore - incest, crime, all wrapped in poetry.
