Playing with Fire
type: Item
label: Met vuur spelen @nl
label: Spiel mit dem Feuer @de
label: Hrátky s ohněm @cs
label: Giocare con il Fuoco @it
label: Jugando con fuego @es
label: Leka med elden @sv
description: Theatre and pyrotechnics
description: Theater en pyrotechniek @nl
description: Theater und Pyrotechnik @de
description: Divadlo a pyrotechnika @cs
description: Teatro e Pirotecnica @it
description: Teatro y pirotecnia @es
description: Teater och pyroteknik @sv
Canon story number: 22
Canon story code: B.03
time frame: Renaissance
Canon story topic: Special effects and projection
Field: Props and special effects
Link to internal Canonbase page: Playing_with_Fire
Link to internal Canonbase page: Met_vuur_spelen
Instance of: Canon stories
Canon story description: Fire is humankind’s oldest form of illumination, representing warmth and safety, but also danger, the diabolical and the supernatural. In the Renaissance theatre, pyrotechnics created spectacular effects, and brought the diabolical on stage.
Canon story refers to: Sebastiano Serlio
Canon story refers to: Christopher Marlowe
Canon story refers to: Lycopodium powder