Commedia
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Similarities
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Shakespeare
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Spoke in Gromalot
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Everyone was involved (acoustics, performers,
audience, etc.)
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Spoke in English
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Women were allowed to take part in the plays, they
were paid and were treated as men’s equals
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Anyone could come watch the play. It didn’t matter
if they had a lot or little money, there was a place for everyone
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No woman were allowed to be in the plays. They were
played by young boys with higher voices
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They used stock characters (Same set of characters
for each performance e.g. Columbina)
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Both were thought to be devil worshipers by the
church
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They had different characters for each play. No
character was repeated in another play (e.g. Romeo)
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Started in the 16th century
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They performed during the day because they could not
afford candles or oil lamps to light the stage/theatre. (No electricity)
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Started in the 17th century
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Most of the Commedia characters wear masks
throughout the performance
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They broke the fourth wall. This means they
interacted with the audience throughout the play
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Usually wore just makeup on their faces
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Their plays could be performed anywhere that they
thought would work (found spaces e.g. town square)
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Plays were performed in troops of paid actors. They
each had a specific art to play. In Shakespeare, if you were the lead male,
in every show you were the lead male. In Commedia, if you were Columbina, you
were always Columbina.
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All the plays were performed and rehearsed in a theatre on the
same stage every time; The Globe Theatre.
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All of the story lines in Commedia are comedic which
means they are meant to be funny almost all the time
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The costumes for the shows were always the actors’
responsibility. They had to use their own clothes or get them specially made
for a show
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Many of the story lines are very tragic and usually
the ending is sad and include more than a few deaths
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Thank you for reading! (Below sows where I got my information from)
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