progressions in civilization, is the Renaissance era. Culture was a huge part of the Renaissance era. The vast artistic styles in all aspects of life during this time made for such a cultural focus. The Renaissance era was called a rebirth of cultural awareness; theatre was a large part of this, including Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. To understand the role theatre played in shaping the Renaissance era one must understand what exactly the Renaissance was. The Renaissance is normally thought to have begun
an essential and crucial part of human society and its development. In the sense of Musical Theatre, it is referred to the art of telling stories through or with songs. This art can be traced all the way back to the Ancient Greeks (5th century BC), where music was used to accompany their stage works. It has been said that Sophocles composed his own music to accompany his own stage plays. In Greek theatre, a “Greek Chorus” was used in the play to comment on the actions. They were a part of the plot
thought to be the purpose of theatre. He defined theatre to be the actor’s ability to hold up a mirror to nature and portray what is actually happening within society. During the time of Shakespeare, the main aim in theatre was to create a night of entertainment, where society could escape from the issues of the day. However, Shakespeare’s message of reflection would take hold in the 19th-century as the primary purpose for theatre and evoke a modernization within theatre that insisted it be a reflection
drama. Indeed, there is interdependence between dramatic speech and everyday speech, yet there is no identity and although there are many common elements, there are also important differences. These differences can be seen in the fact that drama, theatre and other performance genres like film, carnival, ceremonial ritual are embedded in social culture but as part of what has been termed “expressive culture.” Drama has its own history and its own contemporary constraints for aesthetic, experimental
Giovanni Boccaccio was a contemporary to Petrarch and his works revolutionise the Italian literature. Following the Renaissance, the European literature became an art of influence. In the 16th century, the bifurcation of the Church into the Roman Catholics and the English paved the way to political instability. The Puritan era enforced the closing of the theatres, but at the same time, poetry flourished with famous poets like John Milton, Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor and John Dryden. The Baroque
In general, Elizabethan as well as Jacobean plays, not only those of Shakespeare, were more or less influenced by the tradition from which they had arisen, by the sources of information on which they were based, and also by the current political situation in which they were written. While scholars have disagreed about the direct influence of Seneca on Elizabethan drama. The Elizabethan era was a time of relative hope and confidence. In the early seventeenth century, however, the national mood seems
For the Soviet film, see Monologue (film). For the Malayalam film, see Anantaram. For the speech of a narrator, see Voiceover. Actor Christopher Walken performing a monologue in the 1984 stage play Hurlyburly In theatre, a monologue (from Greek: μονόλογος, from μόνος mónos, "alone, solitary" and λόγος lógos, "speech") is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their mental thoughts aloud, though sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience. Monologues
CONTRIBUTION TO THEATRE Introduction Vsevolod Emielevich Meyerhold, considered one of 20th century greatest theatrical innovators, was born on February 10, 1874 in the Russian town of Penza. He was originally born into a Lutheran German-Jewish family with the name Karl Theodore Kasmir Meyergold. In 1895 he took the name Vsevolod Emievich Meyerhold after converting to the Russian Orthourdox Church. Meyerhold studied Law at Moscow University for two terms. He became fascinated with the art of theatre and as
The Man and The Writer Girish Karnad is one of the foremost playwrights of the contemporary Indian stage. He has given the Indian theatre a richness that could probably be equated only with his talents as an actor-director. His contribution goes beyond theatre: he has directed feature films, documentaries and television serials in Kannada, Hindi, and English and has played leading roles as an actor in Hindi and Kannada art films, commercial movies
Godugunuri Prasad Girish Karnad is one of the foremost playwrights of the contemporary Indian stage. He has given the Indian theatre a richness that could probably be equated only with his talents as an actor-director. His contribution goes beyond theatre: he has directed feature films, documentaries and television serials in Kannada, Hindi, and English and has played leading roles as an actor in Hindi and Kannada art films, commercial movies