Performance and Literature in the Commedia dell'Arte

Informationen zum Autor Robert Henke is an Associate Professor of Drama and Comparative Literature at Washington University! St Louis. The recipient of fellowships from Fulbright and Villa I Tatti! he has published articles on Shakespeare and Italian Renaissance drama in Comparative Drama! Genre! and Theatre Survey! among other journals. He is also the author of the book Pastoral Transformations: Italian Tragicomedy and Shakespeare's Late Plays. Klappentext This book explores the commedia dell'arte: the Italian professional theatre in Shakespeare's time. Zusammenfassung This 2002 book explores the commedia dell'arte: the Italian professional theatre in Shakespeare's time. Henke closely analyzes commedia dell'arte texts in order to demonstrate how the spoken word and written literature were fruitfully combined in performance. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Improvisation and characters; 3. Residual orality in early modern Italy and the commedia dell'arte; 4. Venetian buffoni; 5. Early male actors; 6. Early actresses; 7. Zanni texts, 1576-88; 8. Conclusions and caprices: early texts of the Dottore and Pantalone; 9. Tristano Martinelli: a company buffone; 10. Theatrical and literary 'composition' in Francesco Andreini and Flaminio Scala; 11. The generation of Cecchini: technical, moral and dramaturgical publications; Notes; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Henke, Henke Robert
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.12.2002
• EAN: 9780521643245
• ISBN: 978-0-521-64324-5
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Theatre in Europe: A Documenta
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning, Italy, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Acting techniques, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: plays and playwrights