Scripts and Scenarios: The Performance of Comedy in Renaissance Italy - Brossura

Andrews, Richard

 
9780521034159: Scripts and Scenarios: The Performance of Comedy in Renaissance Italy
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ISBN 10: 0521034159 ISBN 13: 9780521034159
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2008

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Examines in a different light the innovative and influential scripted comedies of the Italian Renaissance.

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Recensione

"Simplicity and clarity are exactly the major merits of this excellent volume that should be welcomed especially on this side of the Atlantic for filling up a gap in the history and evaluation of the Italian theater of the sixteenth century....[An] excellent book." Robert C. Melzi, Sixteenth Century Journal

"The volume is...both an excellent introduction to sixteenth century Italian theater and an innovative approach to the development from amateur learned comedy to professional comic theater. The emphasis it places on the texts as works to be performed rather than as literature to be ananlyzed is a welcome change and a solid contribution to the histroy of Italian theater in the Renaissance. And it its synthetic, chronological approach it is so highly suitable for class adoptions that one hopes the publisher will soon offer it in a a paperback version." Konrad Eisenbichler, Wintev

"In his insightful and witty study, Richard Andrews remedies the disparity between scholars' recognition of Italian Renaissance playwrights' pioneering role in 'a modern European concept of theatre' and their inadequate familiarity with the actual texts, performances and audiences." Richard Andrews, Renaissance Quarterly

"...Lew Andrew's book makes important scholarly contributions to our understanding of the narrative tradition and its place in the art and culture of the Renaissance." Sara Nair James, Sixteenth Century Journal

Descrizione del libro

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.

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Editore
Cambridge University Press
Data di pubblicazione
2008
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0521034159
ISBN 13 
9780521034159
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
316
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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Hamburg
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Germania

Altre edizioni note dello stesso titolo

9780521353571: Scripts and Scenarios: The Performance of Comedy in Renaissance Italy

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0521353572 ISBN 13:  9780521353571
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1993
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