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A treatise on acting, from memory and by improvisation (1699) = Dell'arte rappresentativa, premeditata ed all'improviso / by Andrea Perrucci ; translated and edited by Francesco Cotticelli, Anne Goodrich Heck, Thomas F. Heck.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perrucci, Andrea, 1651-1704.
- Standardized Title:
- Dell'arte rappresentativa, premeditata ed all'improviso. English & Italian
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Acting--Early works to 1800.
- Acting.
- Improvisation (Acting)--Early works to 1800.
- Improvisation (Acting).
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- Bilingual edition in English and Italian.
- Other Title:
- Dell'arte rappresentativa, premeditata ed all'improviso
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- Parallel text in English and Italian.
- Summary:
- This 1699 Italian acting treatise includes chapters on all kinds of staged productions, scripted or improvised, sacred or secular, tragic or comic. It also addresses enunciation, diction, memorization, gestures, and stage comportment, and describes the details important to a successful commedia dell'arte performance.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-209) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780810860339
- 0810860333
- OCLC:
- 162126852
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