The Routledge companion to Commedia dell'Arte / edited by Judith Chaffee and Olly Crick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chaffee, Judith.

Crick, Olly, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commedia dell'arte--History and criticism.

Commedia dell'arte.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (541 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Companion to Commedia dell'Arte

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From Commedia dell'Arte came archetypal characters that are still with us today, such as Harlequin and Pantalone, and the rediscovered craft of writing comic dramas and masked theatre. From it came the forces that helped create and influence Opera, Ballet, Pantomime, Shakespeare, Moliere, Lopes de Vega, Goldoni, Meyerhold, and even the glove puppet, Mr Punch.The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell'Arte is a wide-ranging volume written by over 50 experts, that traces the history, characteristics, and development of this fascinating yet elusive theatre form. In synthesizing the elements of Comm

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Notes on contributors; Introduction; PART I The defining features: Actors, scenarios, troupes, stock characters, masks, language and lazzi; Actors; 1 The pre-eminence of the actor in renaissance context: Subverting the social order; Scenarios; 2 Form and Freedom: Between scenario and stage; 3 Parallel Processing: Two playwrights: Scala and Shakespeare; Troupes; 4 The Commedia dell'Arte acting companies; Stock characters; 5 You must have heard of Harlequin...

6 Pantalone and il Dottore: The old men of Commedia7 The Young Lovers; 8 Reading and interpreting the Capitano's multiple mask-shapes; 9 Le Servette in Commedia dell'Arte; 10 Carnival, comedy and the Commedia: A case study of the mask of Scaramouche; 11 Official recognition of Pulcinella: The one who saved the Commedia from extinction by securing its continuity to the present day; 12 The many faces of Brighella: The knave we love to hate; Masks; 13 A mask maker's journey; 14 Mask performance for a contemporary Commedia dell'Arte; 15 New roles for the mask in twentieth century theatre

Language16 Grommelot; Lazzi; 17 Lazzi; 18 Principles of comedy for Commedia dell'Arte; 19 Slapstick and comic violence in Commedia dell'Arte; PART II Historical context: What we know from whom, about what, and why it matters; 20 Aristocratic archeology: Greco-Roman roots; 21 The rise of Commedia dell'Arte in Italy: A historical perspective; 22 The Great Ruzante; 23 The coming together; 24 Staging and staging practices in early Commedia dell'Arte; 25 Commedia dell'Arte and the Spanish Golden Age Theatre; 26 Celestial sirens of the Commedia dell'Arte Stage

27 Incidental music in Commedia dell'Arte performances28 Meetings on Naxos: Opera and Commedia dell'Arte; 29 Classical Ballet and Commedia dell'Arte: Influences; 30 Images of the Commedia dell'Arte; 31 The old man's spectacles: Commedia and Shakespeare; 32 Shakespeare's clown connection: Hybridizing Commedia's Zanni; 33. Writing for the Elite: Molière, Marivaux, and Beaumarchais; 34 Goldoni and Gozzi: Reformers with separate agendas; 35 Commedia dell'Arte as grotesque dance: Decline or evolution?; 36 The myth of Pierrot

37 Speechless spectacles: Commedia pantomime in France, England, and the Americas during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries38 From Meyerhold to Eisenstein: Commedia dell'Arte in Russia; 39 Giorgio Strehler's Arte: A Commedia master directs Shakespeare; 40 Giovanni Poli: The missing link; 41 Arlecchino Appleseed: Or how Carlo Mazzone-Clementi brought Commedia to the New World; PART III Alive and well and living in...; 42 Despite everything, Commedia dell'Arte is alive in Italy. Long live Commedia!; 43 Dario Fo and the Commedia Dell'Arte; 44 Carlo Boso: Fear and laughter in popular theatre

45 Antonio Fava

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-61336-8

1-138-22499-5

1-315-75084-8

1-317-61337-6

9781315750842

OCLC:

896794804