Scripts and Scenarios: The Performance of Comedy in Renaissance Italy
by Richard Andrews
2021-01-07 14:21:44
Scripts and Scenarios: The Performance of Comedy in Renaissance Italy
by Richard Andrews
2021-01-07 14:21:44
This book examines the scripted stage comedies of the Italian Renaissance, tracing their transition from closed courtly audiences to a wider public. It concentrates on the performing values of their scripts rather than their literary qualities, in or...
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This book examines the scripted stage comedies of the Italian Renaissance, tracing their transition from closed courtly audiences to a wider public. It concentrates on the performing values of their scripts rather than their literary qualities, in order to demonstrate their links with improvised commedia dell''arte, and thus explores in a new way a crucial phase in the development of European theater. It will be of interest to scholars and students in both theater history and Italian studies.
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