Format:
1 Online-Ressource (208 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9781350144224
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1350144223
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9781350144200
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9781350144217
Series Statement:
Forms of drama
Content:
"What were the origins of commedia dell'arte and how did it evolve as a dramatic form over the next two centuries? How did its relationship to the ruling ideology of the day change during the Enlightenment? What is its legacy today? These are just some of the questions addressed in this authoritative overview of the dramatic, ideological and aesthetic form of commedia dell'arte. The book's three sections examine the changing role of performers and playwrights, improvisatory scenarios and scripted performance, and its function as a vehicle for social criticism, to offer readers a clear understanding of commedia dell'arte's evolution in Renaissance Italy. This study throws new light on the role of women performers; its changing ideological discourse, which included social reform and, later, conservatism and the alienation of ethnic minorities in complicity with its audience; and its later adaptation into hybrid forms including grotesque dance and the giullarata typified by the work of Dario Fo. In a commedia dell'arte play, the agents of the dramatic action are stock characters identified by costume, dialect, style of movement, dramatic function and social class, and they are, among other things, vehicles of the troupe's social criticism. A major product of the new entertainment industry of the Renaissance, commedia dell'arte rose quickly to a position of dominance in the European comic theatre. By the middle of the 18th century, it started to practice more genteel forms of humour and to mutate into other genres, such as the Harlequinade, grotesque dance and scripted comedy, becoming in the process an artistic accomplice of the counter-Enlightenment"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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List of Figures -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1: Form, Dramaturgy and Content of Early Commedia dell'Arte -- 1. The First Professionals -- 2. Elements of Form: Characters and Dramatic Actions -- 3. Elements of Form: The Scenario, Lazzi, Improvisation -- 4. Commedia dell'Arte and Ottonelli's Theology -- Part 2: Innovations in the 18th Century -- 5. From Scenario to Script: Riccoboni and Goldoni -- 6. Riccoboni's Commedia of Civic Responsibility -- 7. The Commedia dell'Arte in Goldoni's Reform -- 8. Gozzi's Fable Form: A New Horizon of Expectations -- Part 3: Adaptations and Revivals -- 9. Commedia dell'Arte and Grotesque Dance: Gregorio Lambranzi -- 10. Pulcinellate and Harlequinades -- 11. Commedia dell'Arte in the Opera Libretto -- 12. Continuity and Transformation in the 20th Century -- References -- Index
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Also published in print
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350144194
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350144187
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781350144194
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350144187
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350144224
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