The English Renaissance and NOT Shakespeare: Crash Course Theater #13
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Date: 2022-04-04
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becool365
Seeing as I am specialising in Theatre design, early English theatres were definitely inspired by what the French call -The English Garden-. Or as we know them in the UK, Greens. These are usually square and form the courtyards of many buildings of the period. Britain itself had a lot of planned medieval settlements due to ferocious castle building and all those wars and the fact they carried on the building style from the Roman Villas. There was often a lot of participants in the English theatre and that was actually the most expensive seat you can get and the actors and plays were usually designed to be viewed from all sides. Something that is retained to this day in a lot of modern concert halls but rarely in theatre. As modern theatres are usually inspired by Greek and Roman designs with regards to the positioning of the stage and auditorium in relation to one another.
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Seeing as I am specialising in Theatre design, early English theatres were definitely inspired by what the French call -The English Garden-. Or as we know them in the UK, Greens. These are usually square and form the courtyards of many buildings of the period. Britain itself had a lot of planned medieval settlements due to ferocious castle building and all those wars and the fact they carried on the building style from the Roman Villas. There was often a lot of participants in the English theatre and that was actually the most expensive seat you can get and the actors and plays were usually designed to be viewed from all sides. Something that is retained to this day in a lot of modern concert halls but rarely in theatre. As modern theatres are usually inspired by Greek and Roman designs with regards to the positioning of the stage and auditorium in relation to one another.
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Marc
Would have been funnier to say that the needle in Gammer Gurton's Needle is found when the servant gets not stabbed but PRICKED in the butt. That just sounds a lot funnier. Great video. I learned a lot.
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Would have been funnier to say that the needle in Gammer Gurton's Needle is found when the servant gets not stabbed but PRICKED in the butt. That just sounds a lot funnier. Great video. I learned a lot.
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Jez
If we're going to do three episodes on Shakespeare, I think it's reasonable to do at least one full episode on Sondheim (although they probably have already filmed all episodes at this point)
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If we're going to do three episodes on Shakespeare, I think it's reasonable to do at least one full episode on Sondheim (although they probably have already filmed all episodes at this point)
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crash_course
A video illuminating the theater tradition that gave us Shakespeare, three whole episodes on the Bard himself?
Oh what glorious wondrous news is this!
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A video illuminating the theater tradition that gave us Shakespeare, three whole episodes on the Bard himself?
Oh what glorious wondrous news is this!
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cleveque
This is packed with jargon and offhand references to concepts that aren't explained and I expect won't be understood by the uninitiated, like me.
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This is packed with jargon and offhand references to concepts that aren't explained and I expect won't be understood by the uninitiated, like me.
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Jude
I would have really liked an episode on Ben Jonson and one on Marlowe (just to reinforce the idea that Shakespeare didn't came from nowhere)
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I would have really liked an episode on Ben Jonson and one on Marlowe (just to reinforce the idea that Shakespeare didn't came from nowhere)
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