The Routledge companion to Commedia dell'Arte

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015

Subject:

Commedia dell'arte - History and criticism

Contributor:

Chaffee, Judith, editor
Crick, Olly, editor

ISBN:

9780415745062, 0415745063, 9780415745062 (hardback : alk. paper), and 0415745063 (hardback : alk. paper)

Series:

Routledge companions

Description:

xxiii, 516 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-501) and index

Contents:

The pre-eminence of the actor in renaissance context: subverting the social order / Scott McGehee -- Form and freedom: between scenario and stage / Robert Henke -- Parallel processing: two playwrights: Scala and Shakespeare / Tim Fitzpatrick -- The Commedia dell'Arte acting companies / Kenneth Richards -- You must have heard of Harlequin . . . / Michele Bottini -- Pantalone and il dottore: the old men of commedia / Peter Jordan -- The young lovers / Richard Stockton Rand -- Reading and interpreting the capitano's multiple mask-shapes / Mace Perlman -- Le Servette in Commedia dell'Arte / Julie Goell -- Carnival, comedy and the Commedia: a case study of the mask of Scaramouche / Stephen P. J. Knapper -- Official recognition of Pulcinella: the one who saved the Commedia from extinction by securing its continuity to the present day / Antonio Fava -- The many faces of Brighella: the knave we love to hate / Artemis Preeshl -- A mask maker's journey / Stefano Perocco di Meduna -- Mask performance for a contemporary Commedia dell'Arte / Carlos García Estévez -- New roles for the mask in twentieth century theatre / Donato Sartori -- Grommelot / John Rudlin -- Lazzi / Mel Gordon -- Principles of comedy for Commedia dell'Arte / Brian Foley -- Slapstick and comic violence in Commedia dell'Arte / Louise Peacock -- Aristocratic archeology: Greco-Roman roots / Paul Monaghan -- The rise of Commedia dell'Arte in Italy: a historical perspective / Kate Meehan -- The great Ruzante / Linda L. Carroll -- The coming together / Olly Crick -- Staging and staging practices in early Commedia dell'Arte / Franklin J. Hildy and Matthew R. Wilson -- Commedia dell'Arte and the Spanish golden age theatre / Nancy L. D'Antuono -- Celestial sirens of the Commedia dell'Arte stage / Anne E. MacNeil -- Incidental music in Commedia dell'arte performances / Thomas F. Heck -- Meetings on Naxos: opera and Commedia dell'Arte / Roger Savage -- Classical ballet and Commedia dell'Arte: Influences / Barry Grantham -- Images of the Commedia dell'Arte / M. A. Katritzky -- The old man's spectacles: commedia and Shakespeare / Andy Grewar -- Shakespeare's clown connection: hybridizing commedia's Zanni / Sara Romersberger -- Writing for the elite: Molière, Marivaux, and Beaumarchais / Elizabeth C. Goldsmith -- Goldoni and Gozzi: reformers with separate agendas / Michael Griffin -- Commedia dell'Arte as grotesque dance: decline or evolution? / Domenico Pietropaolo -- The myth of Pierrot / Mark Evans -- Speechless spectacles: Commedia pantomime in France, England, and the Americas during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Matthew R. Wilson -- From Meyerhold to Eisenstein: Commedia dell'Arte in Russia / J. Douglas Clayton -- Giorgio Strehler's Arte: a commedia master directs Shakespeare / Mace Perlman -- Giovanni Poli: the missing link / Giulia Filacanapa -- Arlecchino Appleseed: or how Carlo Mazzone-Clementi brought commedia to the new world / Joan Schirle -- Despite everything, Commedia dell'Arte is alive in Italy. Long live commedia! / Fabio Mangolini -- Dario Fo and the Commedia dell'Arte / Antonio Scuderi -- Carlo Boso: fear and laughter in popular theatre / Anna Cottis -- Antonio Fava / John Rudlin -- Happy bedfellows: Commedia dell'Arte, politics, and the San Francisco Mime Troupe / Claudia Orenstein -- Commedia in Gloucestershire: rural contexts (2004 to 2010) / Olly Crick -- I Sebastiani: commedia geeks / Judith Chaffee -- Commedia women on stage - and in the wings / Joan Schirle -- Commedia counterparts: Middle Eastern and Asian connections / Kathy Foley -- Commedia for contemporary theatre maker / Davis Robinson -- Roots and routes: One Man, Two Guvnors / Didi Hopkins -- Commedia in a new world context: the comedy and poetry of survival / Katrien van Beurden -- Bibliography of generally accepted Commedia dell'Arte literature

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

PQ4155 .R68 2015

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