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Performing Commedia dell'Arte, 1570-1630

By: Natalie Crohn Schmitt

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Performing Commedia dell'Arte, 1570-1630

By: Natalie Crohn Schmitt

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. This book is winner of Ennio Flaiano Award in Italianistica, 2020. 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.

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Actors and Onlookers

Theater and Twentieth-century Scientific Views of Nature

By: Natalie Crohn Schmitt

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Theater and Twentieth-century Scientific Views of Nature

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Looks at the scientific basis for theories of drama, and explains how Cage's ideas have affected modern theater.

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Northwestern University Press

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Theater and Twentieth-century Scientific Views of Nature

By: Natalie Crohn Schmitt

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Theater and Twentieth-century Scientific Views of Nature

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Looks at the scientific basis for theories of drama, and explains how Cage's ideas have affected modern theater.

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Befriending the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala

The Comic Scenarios

By: Natalie Crohn Schmitt

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Befriending the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala

The Comic Scenarios

By: Natalie Crohn Schmitt

The most important theatrical movement in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe, the commedia dell’arte has inspired playwrights, artists, and musicians including Molière, Dario Fo, Picasso, and Stravinsky. Because of its stock characters, improvised dialogue, and extravagant theatricalism, the commedia dell’arte is often assumed to be a superficial comic style. With Befriending the Commedia dell’Arte of Flaminio Scala, Natalie Crohn Schmitt demolishes that assumption. By reconstructing the commedia dell’arte scenarios published by troupe manager Flaminio Scala (1547–1624), Schmitt demonstrates that in its Golden Age the commedia dell’arte relied as much on craftsmanship as on improvisation and that Scala’s scenarios are a treasure trove of social commentary on early modern daily life in Italy. In the book, Schmitt makes use of her intensive research into the social and cultural history of sixteenth-century Italy and the aesthetic principles of the period. She combines this research with her insights drawn from studying with contemporary commedia dell’arte performers and from directing a production of one of Scala’s scenarios. The result is a new perspective on the commedia dell’arte that illuminates the style’s full richness.

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University of Toronto Press

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144261918X

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Befriending the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala

The Comic Scenarios

By: Natalie Crohn Schmitt

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Performing Commedia dell'Arte, 1570-1630

Performing Commedia dell'Arte, 1570-1630

Actors and Onlookers

Actors and Onlookers

Actors and Onlookers

Actors and Onlookers

Befriending the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala

Befriending the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala

Befriending the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala

Befriending the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala

Performing Commedia dell'Arte, 1570-1630

Performing Commedia dell'Arte, 1570-1630

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