Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo (1884-1947) - The Paladins of France in America

This study reconstructs the history of the Manteo family marionette theater in New York City, provides translations of eight selected plays and 270 extant summaries, and offers comparative analyses uncovering how Agrippino Manteo's scripts creatively adapt Italian Renaissance chivalric poems and nineteenth-century prose compilations.

List of contents

List of figures; Acknowledgments; Foreword by Alessandro Napoli; Preface; Introduction; Part One The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo and Family; Part Two Select Plays from the Paladins of France Cycle; Conclusion; Appendix 1: Marionettes owned by the Manteo family in the 1980s; Appendix 2: Manteo marionettes donated to the Italian American Museum in 2010; Appendix 3: Extant publications from the library of Agrippino Manteo; Appendix 4: Paladins of France scripts in the handwriting of Agrippino Manteo; Appendix 5: Agrippino Manteo's summaries of plays in the Paladins of France cycle; Appendix 6: Select Characters from the Paladins of France Cycle; Appendix 7: Manteo family genealogy; Works Cited; Index

About the author

Jo Ann Cavallo (Ph.D., Yale, 1987), Professor of Italian at Columbia University, has published widely on Italian chivalric epic, including The World beyond Europe in the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto and The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso: From Public Duty to Private Pleasure.

Product details

• Authors: Jo Ann Cavallo, Cavallo Jo Ann
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9781839987649
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-764-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Anthem World Epic and Romance
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting, Ancient Sagas and epics, Plays, Playscripts, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, PERFORMING ARTS / Puppets & Puppetry, Plays, playscripts, drama