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The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy examines the mechanisms involved in forging a successful joint theatre career, with a focus on the artistic path of two professional performers: Giovan Battista Andreini (1576-1654) and Virginia Ramponi (1583-ca.1631). It links their self-fashioning and marketing strategies to the context of post-Tridentine Italy but outlines the couple paradigm beyond that historical context.
List of contents
Note to the Reader
Introduction
Chapter One — Negotium Diaboli, Negotium Dei
Chapter Two — The Theatre Couple
Chapter Three — Giovan Battista Andreini: Texts and Targets (1604)
Chapter Four — Virginia Ramponi: Mimesis and Myth (1604)
Chapter Five — Virginia Ramponi: Letters and Leadership (1605-1631)
Chapter Six — Giovan Battista Andreini: Portraying the Performer (1605-1631)
Epilogue
Chronology
Notes
Bibliography
About the author
Serena Laiena is an Assistant Professor in Italian and Ad Astra Fellow at University College Dublin. She has published articles and essays on commedia dell'arte and early modern actresses. Her research interests include early modern Italian literature and culture, the social history of theatre in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, women's agency in early modern Europe, and the social function of theatre today.
