Reading Guide Italian Renaissance

As always - this is just a guide, not an exhaustive outline of the reading.

• Overlap of Middle Ages and Renaissance
  
  
• Humanism
  
  
• Why Italy?
  
  
• Achilles
  
  
• The Casket
  
  
• pastoral drama
  
  
• baroque



• neoclassical idea



• verisimilitude



• universality
  
  
• characteristics of comedy and tragedy
  
  
• decorum
  
  
• didactic ideal
  
  
• three unities
  
  
• intermezzi
  
  
• Vitruvius’ De Architectura
  
  
• Terence stage
  
  
• perspective
  
  
• Serlio
  
  
• wings
  
  
• chariot-and-pole system
  
  
• box set
  
  
• Teatro Olimpico
  
  
• Teatro Farnese
  
  
• proscenium arch
  
  
• box, pit, and gallery
  
  
• ‘the glory’
  
  
• commedia dell’arte



• stock characters



• lazzi

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