The Routledge companion to Commedia dell'Arte / edited by Judith Chaffee and Olly Crick.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.Description: xxiii, 516 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmISBN:- 9780415745062 (hardback : alk. paper)
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PART I:The defining features:Actors,Scenarios,troupes,stock characters,masks,langauge and lazzi PART II:Historical context:What we know from Whom,about what,and why it matters PART III:Alive and well and living in... PART IV:Commedia dell'Arte bibliography
From Commedia dell{u2019}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{u2019}Arte Read more...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-501) and index.
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