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The Commedia dell'Arte in Naples. A Bilingual Edition of the 176 Casamarciano Scenarios.
. Ed(S): Cotticelli, Francesco; Heck, Anne Goodrich; Heck, Thomas F.
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Hardback. The Italian comedy "Commedia dell'arte", an improvised performance art that flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries, vanished leaving few traces. What remains are some manuscript collections of plot outlines, and this work offers bilingual access to the largest collection of scenarios. Editor(s): Cotticelli, Francesco; Heck, Anne Goodrich; Heck, Thomas F. Translator(s): Cotticelli, Francesco; Heck, Anne Goodrich; Heck, Thomas F. Num Pages: 1168 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DST; AN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 222 x 73. Weight in Grams: 3153.
Commedia dell'arte, an improvised performance art that flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries, vanished leaving very few traces. What remain, besides some intriguing descriptions, are about a dozen manuscript collections of plot outlines, or scenarios, often written in dialect, which the Italian professional actors must have used to guide them through each drama, from scene to scene and act to act. Only a few such collections have ever been published in Italian, and far fewer in English translation. The present volume remedies this situation by providing bilingual access to the largest known collection of scenarios: the Casamarciano manuscripts of ... Read more
Commedia dell'arte, an improvised performance art that flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries, vanished leaving very few traces. What remain, besides some intriguing descriptions, are about a dozen manuscript collections of plot outlines, or scenarios, often written in dialect, which the Italian professional actors must have used to guide them through each drama, from scene to scene and act to act. Only a few such collections have ever been published in Italian, and far fewer in English translation. The present volume remedies this situation by providing bilingual access to the largest known collection of scenarios: the Casamarciano manuscripts of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
1168
Condition
New
Number of Pages
1168
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810841161
SKU
V9780810841161
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About . Ed(S): Cotticelli, Francesco; Heck, Anne Goodrich; Heck, Thomas F.
Francesco Cotticelli is the professor of theatre studies at the University of Cagliari. Thomas F. Heck is emeritus professor of the Ohio State University Libraries and has published extensively on the performing arts. Anne Goodrich Heck is a professional translator.
Reviews for The Commedia dell'Arte in Naples. A Bilingual Edition of the 176 Casamarciano Scenarios.
...the most exciting collection of commedia scenarios available in English (and, in the case of this edition, also in Italian)....a resource of surpassing quality....Scarecrow, is to be congratulated on their foresight in encouraging such an enormous and lavish project. The thoroughness of this one-of-a-kind project is breathtaking...an essential addition to any library....
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