Scripts and Scenarios - The Performance of Comedy in Renaissance Italy

Klappentext Examines in a different light the innovative and influential scripted comedies of the Italian Renaissance. Zusammenfassung This book examines the scripted stage comedies of the Italian Renaissance! highlighting their relatively unexplored links with improvised commedia dell'arte and thus exploring in a new way a crucial phase in the development of European theatre. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction: Italy in the sixteenth century; 1. Precedents; 2. The first 'regular' comedies; 3. The second quarter-century, outside Venice; 4. The second quarter-century, Venice and Padua; 5. Improvised comedy; 6. Obstacles to comedy; 7. Scripts and scenarios; Notes; Chronological bibliography of comedies, 1500-1560; General biblography.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Richard Andrews, Richard (University of Leeds) Andrews
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 22.04.1993
• EAN: 9780521353571
• ISBN: 978-0-521-35357-1
• Seiten: 316
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Theater, Ballett