Keywords and Concepts for Midterm Exam

Renaissance or Early Modernity?

renaissance and neoclassicism
unity of disunities
invention of tradition
Gumbrecht’s 3 definitions of modernity
“a modern man can never look well dressed”
single-point perspective and prosecnium theatres
Sebastiano Serlio

Spanish ‘Golden Age’ Theatre

corrales de comedias
the cazuela
Lope de Vega’s “New Art”
Lope’s appeal to uso (custom)
Spanish comedias vs. tragedy and comedy
The setting of Life is a Dream
The Corpus Christi festival
Calderon de la Barca and the auto sacramental
Sor Juana and the auto contest in Madrid
Zeal and Religion
The Aztec ritual in Divino Narciso

French Neoclassical theatre

Aristotle vs. Horace
The Hotel de Burgogne
Cardinal Richelieu and the French Academy
the three Aristotelian unities
vraisemblance and bienseance
The controversy over Corneille’s Le Cid
Giacomo Torelli and the Palais Cardinal
The Comedie Italienne and Moliere’s company
The controversy over Tartuffe
Moliere’s relationship to Louis XIV
The Comedie Francaise

English Restoration theatre

The Puritan interregnum
Charles II and his time in France
John Dryden’s defense of English drama
Aphra Behn’s female characters
tennis court theatres
Davenant and Killigrew
Dorset Garden and Drury Lane
fops and rakes
the Glorious Revolution
Hobbes and Locke

Keralan Kathakali

the Mahabharata and puranas
The Natyasastra and the Hastalaksanadipika
rasa and bhava
Namboodiri Brahmins and Nayars
‘house and its land’
rasika
The four plays of Kottayam Tampuran
the Kidangoor style and the Kalluvayi style
illakivattam in the role of Sidhika
green and black character types
kalarippayattu and kathakali actor training
mudras and rasabhinava (facial expression)
the Kerala Kalamandalam

Qing Dynasty theatre

kunqu & jingxi
Peony Pavilion
clapper opera
sheng, dan/tan, jing/ching, ch’ou roles
which characters in Qing Ding Pearl correspond to each type?
Confucianism
teahouse theatres
Mei Lanfang
the cultural revolution & Chinese opera


18th Century Europe

The Bank of England
book culture vs. periodical culture
Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot
Rousseau’s opposition to a theatre in Geneva
the concept of ‘genius’
domestic middle-class drama
social rank or station vs. character
sentimentalism
“the paradox of the actor”
sense and sensibility
David Garrick and Diderot
David Garrick and Hogarth
The Enlightenment and China
David Garrick in Orphan of China