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Italian Renaissance--What was the Italian Renaissance about?
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Experimentation and discovery
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Italian Renaissance--What role did religion play?
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It wasn't as important as previous times, but artists still nodded to it in their work, although they treated it secularly.
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Italian Renaissance--What was the key element to literature?
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Humanism
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Italian Renaissance--Wht was the first Renaissance work to treat a secular subject-human being-as the central object?
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Dante's The Divine Comedy
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Italian Renaissance--He wrote a number of humanistic sonnets and argued for an emphasis of human over theological subjects
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Petrarch
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Italian Renaissance--What was this period not known for?
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Playwriting
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Italian Renaissance--What are the sacra rappresentazioni?
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Religious plays (contiuned through the 1400s)
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Italian Renaissance--Plays were written in Italian beginning when?
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Early 1500s
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Italian Renaissance--Dramatic literature was modeled after what 4 things?
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Greek New Comedy
Classical Greek Tragedy Seneca's tragic style The Comedies of Plautus |
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Italian Renaissance--Short pieces depicting mythological tales. Presented between the acts of full-length plays. Often required spectacular scenic effects.
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Intermezzi
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Italian Renaissance--Short, comic pieces that dealt with lovers whose romance was thereatened. Actions were serious, endings were happy. Not overly bawdy or sexual.
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Pastorals
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Italian Renaissance--What is the only theatrical form that survived from this period?
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Opera
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Italian Renaissance--What are the 5 elements of Opera?
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Score: Musical composition including words
Libretto: Book or text Aria: Solo Song Recitative: Sung dialogue Choral numbers: Entire chorus sings |
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Italian Renaissance--What are 4 of the characteristics of Commedia dell'arte?
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Traveling troupes
Improvised sketches Stock characters Lazzi |
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Italian Renaissance--What are the 3 Character roles of Commedia dell'arte stock characters?
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Pantalone
Dottore Capitano |
