The Metamorphoses Of Commedia Dell Arte

Author : John Rudlin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031105111

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The Metamorphoses of Commedia dell’Arte by John Rudlin Pdf

The Metamorphoses of Commedia dell’Arte traces the steps by which Commedia has been transformed by cultural contact outside Italy into popular forms which bear little resemblance to the original. The book follows the Masks of Arlecchino, Pedrolino and Pulcinella as they gradually migrate and mutate into Harlequin, Mr. Punch and seaside Pierrot troupes. What happened to Pantalone, Scaramouche, Colombina and the male Lover is also investigated, though they had no final forms of their own. This study constitutes a history of what happened, notably in France and Great Britain, to a supremely popular theatrical genre as a result of changing fashions in entertainment brought on by societal developments, civil and industrial revolution and dynastic change. It investigates how the genre was exploited by management, and even its own stars, lost its vitality and gradually ended up in ‘sunken’ forms.

Author : Natalie Crohn Schmitt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780429663062

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Performing Commedia dell'Arte, 1570-1630 by Natalie Crohn Schmitt Pdf

Performing Commedia dell’Arte, 1570-1630 explores the performance techniques employed in commedia dell’arte and the ways in which they served to rapidly spread the ideas that were to form the basis of modern theatre throughout Europe. Chapters include one on why, what, and how actors improvised, one on acting styles, including dialects, voice and gesture; and one on masks and their uses and importance. These chapters on historical performance are followed by a coda on commedia dell’arte today. Together they offer readers a look at both past and present iterations of these performances. Suitable for both scholars and performers, Performing Commedia dell’Arte, 1570-1630 bears on essential questions about the techniques of performance and their utility for this important theatrical form.

Author : Robert Henke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521643244

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Performance and Literature in the Commedia Dell'Arte by Robert Henke Pdf

This book explores the commedia dell'arte: the Italian professional theatre in Shakespeare's time. The actors of this theatre usually did not perform from scripted drama but instead improvised their performances from a shared plot and thorough knowledge of individual character roles. Robert Henke closely analyzes hitherto unexamined commedia dell'arte texts in order to demonstrate how the spoken word and written literature were fruitfully combined in performance. Henke examines a number of primary sources including performance accounts, actors' contracts, and letters, among other documents.

Author : Judith Chaffee,Oliver Crick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317613374

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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 : M. A. Katritzky
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 47,7 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 : John Rudlin,Antonio Fava
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Erith Jaffe-Berg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317164012

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Commedia dell' Arte and the Mediterranean by Erith Jaffe-Berg Pdf

Drawing on published collections and also manuscripts from Mantuan archives, Commedia dell' arte and the Mediterranean locates commedia dell' arte as a performance form reflective of its cultural crucible in the Mediterranean. The study provides a broad perspective on commedia dell’ arte as an expression of the various cultural, gender and language communities in Italy during the early-modern period, and explores the ways in which the art form offers a platform for reflection on power and cultural exchange. While highlighting the prevalence of Mediterranean crossings in the scenarios of commedia dell' arte, this book examines the way in which actors embodied characters from across the wider Mediterranean region. The presence of Mediterranean minority groups such as Arabs, Armenians, Jews and Turks within commedia dell' arte is marked on stage and 'backstage' where they were collaborators in the creative process. In addition, gendered performances by the first female actors participated in 'staging' the Mediterranean by using the female body as a canvas for cartographical imaginings. By focusing attention on the various communities involved in the making of theatre, a central preoccupation of the book is to question the dynamics of 'exchange' as it materialized within a spectrum inclusive of both cultural collaboration but also of taxation and coercion.

Author : Christopher B. Balme,Piermario Vescovo,Daniele Vianello
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Flaminio Scala
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Commedia dell'arte
ISBN : WISC:89017051244

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Scenarios of the Commedia Dell'arte by Flaminio Scala Pdf

Author : Tony Lidington
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000686197

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“Don’t Forget The Pierrots!'' The Complete History of British Pierrot Troupes & Concert Parties by Tony Lidington Pdf

• The book demonstrates how a vernacular British performance form emerged as a hybrid of forms from Afro-American and minstrel, as well as French mime and Italian commedia dell’arte roots. • Theatre history is an essential part of theatre and drama courses across the UK and would be recommended reading. • There is no comparable book which makes critical analysis of British pierrot troupes and concert parties in existence – the only ones that do exist on the specific topic are written as reminiscence and anecdote.

Author : Sergio Costola
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000471489

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Commedia dell'Arte Scenarios by Sergio Costola Pdf

Commedia dell'Arte Scenarios gathers together a collection of scenarios from some of the most important Commedia dell'Arte manuscripts, many of which have never been published in English before. Each script is accompanied by an editorial commentary that sets out its historical context and the backstory of its composition and dramaturgical strategies, as well as scene summaries, and character and properties lists. These supplementary materials not only create a comprehensive picture of each script’s performance methods but also offer a blueprint for readers looking to perform the scenarios as part of their own study or professional practice. This collection offers scholars, performers and students a wealth of original performance texts that brig to life one of the most foundational performance genres in world theatre.

Author : Winifred Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Commedia dell'arte
ISBN : UOM:49015002986652

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The Commedia Dell'arte by Winifred Smith Pdf

Author : Pierre Louis Duchartre,Randolph T. Weaver
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : William C. Carroll
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781400854813

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The Metamorphoses of Shakespearean Comedy by William C. Carroll Pdf

This book argues that the idea of metamorphosis is central to both the theory and practice of Shakespearean comedy. It offers a synthesis of several major themes of Shakespearean comedy--identity, change, desire, marriage, and comic form--under the master trope of transformation. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Corinna Di Niro,Olly Crick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,8 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.