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This book theorizes the baroque as neither a time period nor an artistic style but as a collection of bodily practices developed from clashes between governmental discipline and artistic excess, moving between the dramaturgy of Jesuit spiritual exercises, the political theatre-making of Angelo Beolco (aka Ruzzante), and the civic governance of the Venetian Republic at a time of great tumult. The manuscript assembles plays seldom read or viewed by English-speaking audiences, archival materials from three Venetian archives, and several secondary sources on baroque, Renaissance, and early modern epistemology in order to forward and argument for understanding the baroque as a gathering of social practices. Such a rethinking of the baroque aims to complement the already lively studies of neo-baroque aesthetics and ethics emerging in contemporary scholarship on (for example) Latin American political art.
List of contents
Introduction.- Part I. Baroque Pastoral.- Chapter 1. Garden Thinking and Baroque Pastoral.- Chapter 2. Pastoral Askew and Aslant.- Chapter 3. Jesuit Pastoral Theatre.- Part II. Discipline and Excess.- Chapter 4. Ruzzante Takes Place.- Chapter 5. The Enscenement of Self and the Jesuit 'Teatro del Mondo'.- Chapter 6. Baroque Diarchic Self.- Bibliography.- Index.
About the author
Will Daddario is Co-Editor with Karoline Gritzner of
Adorno and Performance (2014) and with Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca of
Manifesto Now! Instructions for Performance, Philosophy, Politics (2013). He is the Chair of the Performance and Philosophy Working Group within Performance Studies international and a founding member of the international network Performance Philosophy.
Summary
This book theorizes the baroque as neither a time period nor an artistic style but as a collection of bodily practices developed from clashes between governmental discipline and artistic excess, moving between the dramaturgy of Jesuit spiritual exercises, the political theatre-making of Angelo Beolco (aka Ruzzante), and the civic governance of the Venetian Republic at a time of great tumult. The manuscript assembles plays seldom read or viewed by English-speaking audiences, archival materials from three Venetian archives, and several secondary sources on baroque, Renaissance, and early modern epistemology in order to forward and argument for understanding the baroque as a gathering of social practices. Such a rethinking of the baroque aims to complement the already lively studies of neo-baroque aesthetics and ethics emerging in contemporary scholarship on (for example) Latin American political art.
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“Baroque, Venice, Theatre, Philosophy is a clearly written, closely argued, and carefully drawn study of the Italian baroque in historical (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries), architectural, and metaphorical space and time.” (Spencer Golub,Theatre Journal, Vol. 71 (4), December, 2019)
“A worthy addition to the Jesuit theater bookshelf.” (Kevin J. Wetmore, Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 5, 2018)
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"Baroque, Venice, Theatre, Philosophy is a clearly written, closely argued, and carefully drawn study of the Italian baroque in historical (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries), architectural, and metaphorical space and time." (Spencer Golub,Theatre Journal, Vol. 71 (4), December, 2019)
"A worthy addition to the Jesuit theater bookshelf." (Kevin J. Wetmore, Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 5, 2018)
