UID:
almahu_9949385312302882
Format:
1 online resource (200 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781003102373
,
1003102379
,
9781000533248
,
1000533247
,
9781000533293
,
1000533298
Content:
This book examines Commedia dell'Arte as a performative genre, and one that should be analysed through the framework of dramaturgy and dramaturgical practice. This volume examines the way Commedia has been explored in the C20th and C21st centuries, and details its reinventors⁰́₉ dramaturgic approaches, both focusing in on specific examples such as Jacques Lecoq, Dario Fo and Antonio Fava, and also suggesting how modern discoveries may aid the study of historical performance practice. It also discusses how audiences read and receive masks; the relationship between the different masked and unmasked roles; the range of performance activities that come under the umbrella term ⁰́₈improvisation⁰́₉; the performative construction of a role performed ⁰́₈live⁰́₉ from a scenario; the role of language and embodied locality in performance; the performative relationship between performative commedia and literary tragicomedy. Its focus is dramaturgy, and so may be read both as a text describing various theatrical practices from 1946 onwards, but also as way of creating one⁰́₉s own contemporary Commedia Practice. It is an important read for any student or scholar of Commedia dell'Arte and theatre historians grappling with the status of this unique and influential performance form.
Note:
Chapter 1: The Founders of Neo-Commedia; Chapter 2: The Second and Third Generations of Reinventors; Chapter 3: Commedia Archetypes; Chapter 4: Fixed Types and Stock Roles; Chapter 5: Actors, Parts and Roles, by Sergio Costola; Chapter 6: Improvisation and Commedia; Chapter 7: Grammelot and the Performance of Language; Chapter 8: Neo-Commedia and The Ensemble; Chapter 9: Masks in Neo-Commedia; Chapter 10: The Epilogue
Additional Edition:
Ebook version : ISBN 9781000533293
Additional Edition:
Print version: Crick, Olly, 1960- Dramaturgy of commedia dell'arte. [Place of publication not identified] : Routledge, 2021 ISBN 0367608855
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367608859
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003102373
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003102373
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