¡Descarga Theatre terms Shakespeare. y más Apuntes en PDF de Teatro solo en Docsity!
Act: Apart from being what actors do on stage, the term also denotes a division in the performan
ce of a play. Each act may also have several scenes.
ACTOR
Person (male or female) who's role is to play a character other than his/her own. Although the term 'actress' is still used for a female actor, many women prefer to have the same title as the men.
ACTRESS:a woman who acts in stage plays, motion pictures, television broadcasts, etc., especially professionally.
Antagonist: Antagonists are present in almost every play. They oppose what the main hero, or
protagonist is trying to accomplish.
Anthropocentrism: A viewpoint or theory that places human beings at the center of something, giving preference to human beings above all other considerations.
ASIDE
Lines spoken by an actor to the audience and not supposed to be overheard by other characters on-stage. a quick remark made by a character in a play which is said only to the audience.
Atmosphere: is really important in threatre, its intention is that of evoking a certain emotion or feeling from the audience. An appropriate atmosphere is created by a combination of such elements as WORDS, SETTING, VOICE, TONE and THEME. The normal background sound at any location.
AUDIENCE: Group of spectators at a public event; listeners or viewers collectively, as in attendance at a theater or concert. Audience members participate in different ways in different kinds of art; some events invite overt audience participation and others allowing only modest clapping and criticism and reception.
Blank Verse is any verse comprised of unrhymed lines all in the same meter, usually iambic
pentameter. It was developed in Italy and became widely used during the Renaissance because it
resembled classical, unrhymed poetry.
A body politic is a metaphor in which a nation is considered to be a corporate entity,[2]^ being likened to a human body.
BURDEN:
CHARACTER
- The mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual within the world of the play.
- A named individual who acts within the play.
CHORUS: A sound processing effect which adds 'body' to a sound by overlapping a number of slightly delayed versions of the
original sound. a piece of music written to be sung by a large group of people; a group of singers, dancers, or
actors who act together in a show but do not have the main parts.
CHRONICLE PLAY: also called chronicle history or history play , drama with a theme from history
consisting usually of loosely connected episodes chronologically arranged.
CLIMAX: The significant moment in the plot of a play, when things change, or reach a crisis point.
CLOWN: a comic performer, as in a circus, theatrical production, or the like, who wears an outla
ndish costumeand makeup and entertains by pantomiming common situations or actions in e
xaggerated or ridiculousfashion, by juggling or tumbling, etc.
Comedy: This term describes a play that is light in tone and designed to amuse, an humorous play. The ancient Greeks are credited with inventing comedies as a way to comment satirically on domestic situations.
COMICRELIEF
A comic scene (or line) included in an otherwise straight-faced play to provide a relief from tension for the audience.
Company - the cast and crew of a show and any other staff who work on the Show; A group that stages productions guided by a particular artistic vision or theatrical method. Often headed by a director. Some theatre companies (called troupes in French) hire actors to form a permanent company.
CONFLICT
A device setup by the playwright consisting of an argument, disagreement, need or inequality between characters. There are broadly four types of conflict:
- Relational Conflict This is the predominant type, and consists of a battle between the mutually exclusive goals of characters (often the protagonist & antagonist).
- Societal Conflict Occurs between an individual character (or small group) and a larger group or society.
- Inner Conflict A character struggling with her/himself; either trying to escape a mode of behavior (addictive) or a state of mind.
- Situational Conflict Involving a situation which must be escaped or resolved.
Conventions are the generally accepted "rules" of the theatre by which the audience understands the play. Theatrical convention
includes the techniques used by the performers to communicate with the audience in aspects of staging, blocking, and
interpreting the play, whose meaning is agreed upon by audience and artist alike. Dram atic conventions are the specific
actions or techniques the actor, writer or director has employed to create a desired dramatic effect/style.
couplet, a pair of end-rhymed lines of verse that are self-contained in grammatical structure and meaning. A couplet
may be formal (or closed), in which case each of the two lines is end-stopped, or it may be run-on (or open), with the
meaning of the first line continuing to the second (this is called enjambment).
COURTESY BOOK: a medieval or Renaissance book designed to prepare the young nobleman for the proper
pursuit of his courtly duties and pleasures; a book designed to prepare a young gentleman for public duties and
conduct : a book of advice about social conduct.
COURTLY LOVE: in the later Middle Ages, a highly conventionalized code that prescribed the behaviour of ladies and
their lovers. The courtly lover existed to serve his lady. His love was invariably adulterous, marriage at that time being
usually the result of business interest or the seal of a power alliance. Ultimately the lover saw himself as serving the all-
powerful god of love and worshipping his lady-saint. Faithlessness was the mortal sin. The courtly medieval literature
that began with the troubadour poetry of Aquitaine and Provence in southern France toward the end of the 11th century.
Crisis A decisive point in the plot of a play on which the outcome of the remaining action depends.
DECORUM:
DENOUEMENT: The moment in a drama when the essential plot point is unravelled or explained.
DESU EX MACHINA: Latin for God in the Machine. A mechanical device used in Greek classical and medieval drama to lower an actor playing God from the flies above the stage to resolve the conflict in a play. The mechanical crane that carried the DEUS EX MACHINA was known as MECHANE. The term sometimes refers to a character which has a similar function in a more modern drama.
DIALOGUE: conversation in a play.
DISGUISE: is the cloth used by the actors in a play; vb. To put a disguise on in order to not to be recognized. Costume The clothing an actor wears onstage. With their shapes, colours and textures, costumes help to create the visual world of the play, to communicate relationships between characters and to reveal the identity (age, occupation, personality) of various characters in the play.
DRAMA:acoomposition in prose or verse presenting in dialogue or pantomime a story i
nvolving conflict orcontrast of character, especially one intended to be acted on the
stage; a play.
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
Latin for the persons (characters) in a play. The list on the front page of a script which lists the characters in the text, and sometimes their relationship to each other.
DRAMATIST
A playwright, composer or lyrisist who takes an existing story and transforms it into a play or musical.
DRAMATIZATION: The act or art of dramatizing; A work adapted for dramatic presentation.
dumb show the use of movements without words to express something [↪ mime]
ELIZABETHAN DRAMA: English drama during the reign of Elizabeth I (1558 - 1603).England's first great era of the
theater was crowned by the emergenceof the world's most renowned dramatist, William Shakespeare.Other
prominent writers of the Elizabethan age included the UniversityWits - Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd,John
