Renaissance
**It started with the fall of Constantanople to the Turks in 1453.
**The movable type printing type also helped start it
- Renaissance brought back to Italy all of the manuscripts a person (monk or educated person) could carry
- When the Turks took over Constantinople, all the smart people (scholars and priests) were afraid of them because they were oppressive...picked up all manuscripts they could get and took them to the closest civilizations such as Italy.
- All educated men in Italy started reading the classics. Greek and Roman times became reveered. The first plays in the Renaissance were written by Platus and Seneca.
- Rigid rules were made for the writing of drams; neoclassicm: return of the classics
- All plays had to be written in 5 facts, tragedies had to teach moral lesson, theatre viewed as vehicle for instruction, only do a play that could happen in everyday life, tragedy dealt with nobility, comedy dealt with lower class
- Followed Aristotle’s rules because they thought he was a great man; remembered plays of Seneca best of all
- Playwrighting was not one of their strengths, too rigid; one of their strengths was the intramezzi, or a series of short plays or scenes with singing or dancing that were presented between each act of a tragedy - Italy made grand opera
- Most important thing they did was to build buildings, we got our first indoor theater from the Renaissance in Italy (Two are still standing - Teatro Olypico, Theatro Famese)
- 1585 was when the Olympico was built
- In this theater they took the ideas from book by the name of Vitruvius (Dearchitecura)
- Rediscover in 1414; 1541 they translated it into Italian, Serlio
- Wrote how theaters were to be built and believed theaters should have seating arrangements at one part of the the hall and seating at the other.
**It started with the fall of Constantanople to the Turks in 1453.
**The movable type printing type also helped start it
- Renaissance brought back to Italy all of the manuscripts a person (monk or educated person) could carry
- When the Turks took over Constantinople, all the smart people (scholars and priests) were afraid of them because they were oppressive...picked up all manuscripts they could get and took them to the closest civilizations such as Italy.
- All educated men in Italy started reading the classics. Greek and Roman times became reveered. The first plays in the Renaissance were written by Platus and Seneca.
- Rigid rules were made for the writing of drams; neoclassicm: return of the classics
- All plays had to be written in 5 facts, tragedies had to teach moral lesson, theatre viewed as vehicle for instruction, only do a play that could happen in everyday life, tragedy dealt with nobility, comedy dealt with lower class
- Followed Aristotle’s rules because they thought he was a great man; remembered plays of Seneca best of all
- Playwrighting was not one of their strengths, too rigid; one of their strengths was the intramezzi, or a series of short plays or scenes with singing or dancing that were presented between each act of a tragedy - Italy made grand opera
- Most important thing they did was to build buildings, we got our first indoor theater from the Renaissance in Italy (Two are still standing - Teatro Olypico, Theatro Famese)
- 1585 was when the Olympico was built
- In this theater they took the ideas from book by the name of Vitruvius (Dearchitecura)
- Rediscover in 1414; 1541 they translated it into Italian, Serlio
- Wrote how theaters were to be built and believed theaters should have seating arrangements at one part of the the hall and seating at the other.
