Elizabethan Theatre, Italian Renaissance Theatre

Elizabethan Theatre

Secularization
Theatre as a professional form of entertainment
Professional actors
Professional companies (e.g. Kings Men)

Conventions of Elizabethan Theatre
Male actors
Short run of productions
Playwrights sold plays to companies
Thrust stage
Actual Theatre Buildings
yard and galleries
standing
Costume:Elizabethan dress
Props: Basic props to identify settings and characters. etc.
Acting style:
need for projection
epic voice (non-naturalistic)
'Portraying' characters
Text: Authored
Both blank verse and poetic forms as well as prose
poetic forms-iambic pentameter

Italian Renaissance Theatre
lazzi
ensures there isn't chaos onstage
types of actors (Harlequin, Capitano)
Improvised