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Item Number: 124694
Title: The Commedia dell'Arte from Arlecchino to our times
Author: Montefiore, Jacques Misan
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788862275149
Description: Pisa-Roma: Serra, 2013. 25cm., pbk., 271pp., 38 b&w illus. Contents: Part one: Theatre and Society; The Commedia dell'Arte and Popular Latin Comedy; The Commedia dell'Arte and Popular Italian Comedy; Commedia dell'Arte and the Renaissance Commedia Erudita; The Commedia dell'Arte and Carnivals; The Birth of the Professional Actor; Conclusion (Provisional). Part two: Masks: The Origin of Masks; Carnival Masks; Masks and Bergamo Masks; The Masks of the Commedia dell'Arte (The Zanni; The Old Men – Pantaloon; The Doctor –; The Captain; The Lovers); Women in the Commedia dell'Arte; Neapolitan Masks). Part three: the Companies: Historical Overview; The Underlying Structure of the Company; The Market for Plays and Shows. Part four: Technique: The Repertories; The Canvasses; The Game of the Masks; Improvisation; The Lazzi and the Pantomime; Music and Dancing; Language. Part five: the Fortunes of the Commedia dell'Arte: The Commedia dell'Arte and Its Detractors; The Commedia dell'Arte in France; The Commedia dell'Arte in the 18th Century – From Polemic to Creation: Goldoni and Gozzi; The Commedia dell'Arte in Spain; The Commedia dell'Arte in Englan; The Commedia dell'Arte in Germany and Austria; The Commedia dell'Arte in Russia; The Commedia dell'Arte and Jewish theatre. (Letteratura e dintorni, 21)

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