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The English grammar schools, like those on the continent, placed special emphasis on the trivium: grammar, logic, and rhetoric.Though rhetorical instruction was intended as preparation for careers in civil service such as law, the rhetorical canons of memory and delivery (pronuntiatio), gesture and voice, as well as exercises from the progymnasmata, such as the prosopopoeia, taught theatrical ...
Stephen Hammerton was a prominent boy actor with the King's Men in the last decade of English Renaissance theatre, 1632–1642. Hugh Clark was a noted boy player in the 1625–1630 period. Charles Hart started out as a boy player with the King's Men, earning fame for his portrayal of the Duchess in Shirley's The Cardinal ( 1641 ).
Pages in category "English Renaissance plays" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 430 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The period known as the English Renaissance, approximately 1500–1660, saw a flowering of the drama and all the arts. The two candidates for the earliest comedy in English Nicholas Udall's Ralph Roister Doister (c. 1552) and the anonymous Gammer Gurton's Needle (c. 1566), belong to the 16th century.
The Induction to this revised version is a metatheatrical one, in which the play's actors and its onstage spectators comment on the drama that is to follow and discuss the "bitterness" of its satire. King's Men actors Richard Burbage , John Lowin , and Henry Condell appear as themselves, while William Sly appears as a young theater-goer and ...
Restoration comedy is English comedy written and performed in the Restoration period of 1660–1710. Comedy of manners is used as a synonym for this. [1] After public stage performances were banned for 18 years by the Puritan regime, reopening of the theatres in 1660 marked a renaissance of English drama. [2]
The dominant art forms of the English Renaissance were literature and music. Visual arts in the English Renaissance were much less significant than in the Italian Renaissance. The English period began far later than the Italian, which was moving into Mannerism and the Baroque by the 1550s or earlier.
A pejorative character in English literature and especially comic drama, as well as satirical prints, the fop is a foolish "man of fashion" who overdresses, aspires to wit, and puts on airs. He may also overdo being fashionably French by wearing French clothes and using French words.