Commedia Dell Arte For The 21st Century

Author : Corinna Di Niro,Olly Crick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000520972

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Commedia dell’Arte for the 21st Century by Corinna Di Niro,Olly Crick Pdf

This book discusses the evolution of Commedia dell’Arte in the Asia-Pacific where through the process of reinvention and recreation it has emerged as a variety of hybrids and praxes, all in some ways faithful to the recreated European genre. The contributors in this collection chart their own training in the field and document their strategies for engaging with this form of theatre. In doing so, this book examines the current thoughts, ideas, and perceptions of Commedia – a long-standing theatre genre, originating in a European-based collision between neo-classical drama and oral tradition. The contributing artists, directors, teachers, scholars and theatre-makers give insight into working styles, performance ideas, craft techniques and ways to engage an audience for whom Commedia is not part of their day-to-day culture. The volume presents case studies by current practitioners, some who have trained under known Commedia ‘masters’ (e.g. Lecoq, Boso, Mazzone-Clementi and Fava) and have returned to their country of origin where they have developed their performance and teaching praxis, and others (e.g. travelling from Europe to Japan, Thailand, Singapore and China) who have discovered access points to share or teach Commedia in places where it was previously not known. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in Performing arts, Italian studies, and History as well as practitioners in Commedia dell’Arte.

Author : Judith Chaffee,Oliver Crick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317613367

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The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell'Arte by Judith Chaffee,Oliver Crick Pdf

From Commedia dell’Arte came archetypal characters that are still with us today, such as Harlequin and Pantalone, and the rediscovered craft of writing comic dramas and masked theatre. From it came the forces that helped create and influence Opera, Ballet, Pantomime, Shakespeare, Moliere, Lopes de Vega, Goldoni, Meyerhold, and even the glove puppet, Mr Punch. The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell’Arte is a wide-ranging volume written by over 50 experts, that traces the history, characteristics, and development of this fascinating yet elusive theatre form. In synthesizing the elements of Commedia, this book introduces the history of the Sartori mask studio; presents a comparison between Gozzi and Goldoni’s complicated and adversarial approaches to theatre; invites discussions on Commedia’s relevance to Shakespeare, and illuminates re-interpretations of Commedia in modern times. The authors are drawn from actors, mask-makers, pedagogues, directors, trainers and academics, all of whom add unique insights into this most delightful of theatre styles. Notable contributions include: • Donato Sartori on the 20th century Sartori mask • Rob Henke on form and freedom • Anna Cottis on Carlo Boso • Didi Hopkins on One Man, Two Guv’nors • Kenneth Richards on acting companies • Antonio Fava on Pulcinella • Joan Schirle on Carlo Mazzone-Clementi and women in Commedia • and M.A. Katritzky on images Olly Crick is a performer, trainer and director, having trained in Commedia under Barry Grantham and Carlo Boso. He is founder of The Fabulous Old Spot Theatre Company. Judith Chaffee is Associate Professor of Theatre at Boston University, and Head of Movement Training for Actors. She trained in Commedia with Antonio Fava, Julie Goell, Stanley Allen Sherman, and Carlos Garcia Estevez.

Author : Christopher B. Balme,Piermario Vescovo,Daniele Vianello
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108670579

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Commedia dell'Arte in Context by Christopher B. Balme,Piermario Vescovo,Daniele Vianello Pdf

The commedia dell'arte, the improvised Italian theatre that dominated the European stage from 1550 to 1750, is arguably the most famous theatre tradition to emerge from Europe in the early modern period. Its celebrated masks have come to symbolize theatre itself and have become part of the European cultural imagination. Over the past twenty years a revolution in commedia dell'arte scholarship has taken place, generated mainly by a number of distinguished Italian scholars. Their work, in which they have radically separated out the myth from the history of the phenomenon remains, however, largely untranslated into English (or any other language). The present volume gathers together these Italian and English-speaking scholars to synthesize for the first time this research for both specialist and non-specialist readers. The book is structured around key topics that span both the early modern period and the twentieth-century reinvention of the commedia dell'arte.

Author : Christopher B. Balme,Piermario Vescovo,Daniele Vianello
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1108994083

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Commedia dell'Arte in Context by Christopher B. Balme,Piermario Vescovo,Daniele Vianello Pdf

The commedia dell'arte, the improvised Italian theatre that dominated the European stage from 1550 to 1750, is arguably the most famous theatre tradition to emerge from Europe in the early modern period. Its celebrated masks have come to symbolize theatre itself and have become part of the European cultural imagination. Over the past twenty years a revolution in commedia dell'arte scholarship has taken place, generated mainly by a number of distinguished Italian scholars. Their work, in which they have radically separated out the myth from the history of the phenomenon remains, however, largely untranslated into English (or any other language). The present volume gathers together these Italian and English-speaking scholars to synthesize for the first time this research for both specialist and non-specialist readers. The book is structured around key topics that span both the early modern period and the twentieth-century reinvention of the commedia dell'arte.

Author : John Rudlin,Antonio Fava
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000296419

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Commedia dell'Arte, its Structure and Tradition by John Rudlin,Antonio Fava Pdf

Commedia dell'Arte, its Structure and Tradition chronicles a series of discussions between two renowned experts in commedia dell'arte – master practitioners Antonio Fava and John Rudlin. These discussions were recorded during three recent visits by Fava to Rudlin’s rural retreat in south west France. They take in all of commedia dell'arte's most striking and enduring elements – its masks, its scripts and scenarios, and most outstandingly, its cast of characters. Fava explores the role of each stock Commedia character and their subsequent incarnations in popular culture, as well as their roots in prominent figures of their time. The lively and wide-ranging conversations also take in methods of staging commedia dell'arte for contemporary audiences, the evolution of its gestures, and the collective nature of its theatre-making. This is an essential book for any student or practitioner of commedia dell'arte – provocative, expansive wisdom from the modern world's foremost exponent of the craft.

Author : John Rudlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134945870

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Commedia Dell'Arte: An Actor's Handbook by John Rudlin Pdf

There has been an enormous revival of interest in Commedia dell'arte. And it remians a central part of many drama school courses. In Commedia dell'arte in the Twentieth Century John Rublin first examines the orgins of this vital theatrical form and charts its recent revival through the work of companies like Tag, Theatre de Complicite and the influential methods of Jacques Lecoq. The second part of the book provides a unique practical guide for would-be practitioners: demonstrating how to approach the roles of Zanni, Arlecchion, Brighella, Pantalone, Dottore, and the Lovers in terms of movement, mask-work and voice. As well as offering a range of lazzi or comic business, improvisation exercises, sample monologues,and dialogues. No other book so clearly outlines the specific culture of Commedia or provides such a practical guide to its techniques. This immensely timely and useful handbook will be an essential purchase for all actors, students, and teachers.

Author : M. A. Katritzky
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789042017986

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The Art of Commedia by M. A. Katritzky Pdf

Italian comedians attracted audiences to performances at every level, from the magnificent Italian, German and French court festival appearances of Orlando di Lasso or Isabella Andreini, to the humble street trestle lazzi of anonymous quacks. The characters they inspired continue to exercise a profound cultural influence, and an understanding of the commedia dell'arte and its visual record is fundamental for scholars of post-1550 European drama, literature, art and music. The 340 plates presented here are considered in the light of the rise and spread of commedia stock types, and especially Harlequin, Zanni and the actresses. Intensively researched in public and private collections in Oxford, Munich, Florence, Venice, Paris and elsewhere, they complement the familiar images of Jacques Callot and the Stockholm Recueil Fossard within a framework of hundreds of significant pictures still virtually unknown in this context. These range from anonymous popular prints to pictures by artists such as Ambrogio Brambilla, Sebastian Vrancx, Jan Bruegel, Louis de Caulery, Marten de Vos, and members of the Valckenborch and Francken clans. This volume, essential for commedia dell'arte specialists, represents an invaluable reference resource for scholars, students, theatre practitioners and artists concerned with commedia-related aspects of visual, dramatic and festival culture, in and beyond Italy.

Author : Anne MacNeil
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : 0198166893

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Music and Women of the Commedia dell' Arte by Anne MacNeil Pdf

Music and the Commedia dell'Arte narrates the story of the most famous commedia dell'arte troupe of the late Renaissance, focusing in particular on the representation of women on stage and on the role of music-making in their craft. In its thorough integration of the fields of music history,theatre history, performance studies, women's studies and Classics, this is the first comprehensive analysis of the leading actresses of the Compagnia dei Gelosi and their contributions to the Renaissance stage. Including an extensive survey of documents concerning comedians, their patrons,colleagues and audiences, Music and the Commedia dell'Arte provides a rich context for the study of musical-theatrical performance before the advent of opera and re-defines our perceptions of women, music and theatre in the Renaissance.

Author : Thomas F. Heck
Publisher : Garland Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038400490

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Commedia Dell'arte by Thomas F. Heck Pdf

Author : Joseph Farrell,Paolo Puppa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521802659

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A History of Italian Theatre by Joseph Farrell,Paolo Puppa Pdf

A history of Italian theatre from its origins to the the time of this book's publication in 2006. The text discusses the impact of all the elements and figures integral to the collaborative process of theatre-making. The distinctive nature of Italian theatre is expressed in the individual chapters by highly regarded international scholars.

Author : Tim Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Acting
ISBN : UCSC:32106013376378

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The Relationship of Oral and Literate Performance Processes in the Commedia Dell'arte by Tim Fitzpatrick Pdf

This study argues that the performers who developed the commedia dell'arte in the 16th century did so by applying oral story-telling techniques to a multi-performer genre.

Author : Emily Wilbourne
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226401577

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Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia Dell’Arte by Emily Wilbourne Pdf

In this book, Emily Wilbourne boldly traces the roots of early opera back to the sounds of the commedia dell’arte. Along the way, she forges a new history of Italian opera, from the court pieces of the early seventeenth century to the public stages of Venice more than fifty years later. Wilbourne considers a series of case studies structured around the most important and widely explored operas of the period: Monteverdi’s lost L’Arianna, as well as his Il Ritorno d’Ulisse and L’incoronazione di Poppea; Mazzochi and Marazzoli’s L’Egisto, ovvero Chi soffre speri; and Cavalli’s L’Ormindo and L’Artemisia. As she demonstrates, the sound-in-performance aspect of commedia dell’arte theater—specifically, the use of dialect and verbal play—produced an audience that was accustomed to listening to sonic content rather than simply the literal meaning of spoken words. This, Wilbourne suggests, shaped the musical vocabularies of early opera and facilitated a musicalization of Italian theater. Highlighting productive ties between the two worlds, from the audiences and venues to the actors and singers, this work brilliantly shows how the sound of commedia performance ultimately underwrote the success of opera as a genre.

Author : Antonio Fava
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015067682032

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The Comic Mask in the Commedia Dell'Arte by Antonio Fava Pdf

"The mask - as object, symbol, character, theatrical practice, even spectacle - is the central metaphor around which Fava builds his discussion of structure, themes, characters, and methods. His book combines historical fact, personal experience, philosophical speculation, and passionate opinion. Including period drawings, prints, and color photographs of leather masks made by Fava himself, The Comic Mask in the Commedia dell'Arte is a rich work of singular insight into one of the world's most venerable forms of theater." --Book Jacket.

Author : Pierre Louis Duchartre,Randolph T. Weaver
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1966-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780486216799

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Recueil Fossard by Pierre Louis Duchartre,Randolph T. Weaver Pdf

Illustrated history of the beginnings, growth and influence of the commedia dell? arte. Describes improvisations, staging, marks, scenarios, acting troupes, and origins.

Author : Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1987-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521058341

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The World of Harlequin by Allardyce Nicoll Pdf

The commedia dell'arte was an improvised drama performed by masked players. How did the actors react to these demands and limitations? What force kept this form of theatre alive for more than two centuries and made Harlequin such a potent image? In this study of the commedia dell'arte, originally published in 1987, Professor Nicoll's concern is not to provide an historical survey of its origins or to trace the ascent and descent of Harlequin or any or any other character or 'mask', but rather to explore critically the answers to these and related questions. His arguments are based on the evidence of the play scenarios and contemporary documents as far as possible, and are illuminated by many illustrations that are either little-known or had not previously been reproduced.