WILL POWER Props toShakespeare Classical Drama 2: English Renaissance DramaAPPROACHING A PLAY CONTEXT SUBJECT TREATMENT PLOT * CHARACTER *LANGUAGE THEME * RHYTHM * SPECTACLEPAGE STAGEPLAY PRODUCTIONTEXT PERFORMANCELIT LIVENESSWilliam Shakespeare (1564-1616) and the Elizabethan Theatre Renaissance MIMESIS POETIC / NON-ILLUSIONIST / HUMANIST Renaissance MIMESISEnglish Renaissance Drama- OCCASION- SPACE- CONVENTIONS CONTEXTWorld RENAISSANCE HUMANISM PURITANS AUDIENCES TheatreELIZABETHAN PLAYHOUSETHE GLOBELICENSED THEATRES SHAREHOLDING COMPANIES- -Cultural Context HUMANISM CAPITALISM PURITANISM- Theatre Architecture ELIZABETHAN PLAYHOUSE THRUST STAGE NON-ILLUSIONISM- OrientationARTIFICE STYLIZATION THEATRICALITYSPACEShakespeare’s Globe, 1997 London reconstruction.ROUGH MAGICROUGHING ITRenaissance PERFORMANCE CONVENTIONS- OUTDOOR, DAYTIME PERFORMANCES- MALE ACTORS- PLATFORM STAGE: THRUST- MINIMAL SPECTACLE - NO “FOURTH WALL” ILLUSIONShakespeare in Love (1998)ROUGHING IT Renaissance PLAYWRITING CONVENTIONS = Shakespeare’s DRAMATURGY- MULTIPLE PLOTS, Parallels & Contrasts- CHARACTERS as Mirrors & Foils- POETRY: BLANK VERSE (+ prose)- SOLILOQUY & ASIDES- METATHEATREROUGH MAGIC: MASS APPEALDRAMATIC FORMSALLEGORY – extended metaphorAUTOBIOGRAPHY – reflexivityPASTORAL – courtly country talesROMANCE – passionate, exotic,free from verisimilitude SETTINGProspero’s IslePROTAGONIST Renaissance Man = great + dangerous potential. Upwardly Mobile + Machiavellian .The Coast of Utopia?“WHAT’S PAST IS PROLOGUE”The Tempest (2010)Ariel Miranda Caliban | Antonio - PROSPERO – Alonzo | Gonzalo SebastianStephano Trinculo FerdinandI have of late—but wherefore I know not--.lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me: no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so. --Hamlet (act 2, scene