DAN 2520 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Swordsmanship
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Festive, courtly entertainment in the 16th -17th century. Collaboration of music, dance, song and acting, creating elaborate scenes. Professional actors and musicians were hired for roles. At the end the audience was invited to dance (party setting) Comedic dramatist who wrote scenarios for masques and antimasques. Actors often wore silly and unexpected costumes. Facial expressions were also odd and silly. Created the ability for scenes for change. Very talented at positioning people on stage. He believed that dancing was necessary for actcors. At the end of a play the actors would all come out to dance on stage as celebration.
