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Scripts & Scenarios: The Performance of Comedy in Renaissance Italy
This book examines the scripted stage comedies of the Italian Renaissance, tracing their transition from closed courtly audiences to a wider public. It concentrates on the performing values of their scripts rather than their literary qualities, in order to demonstrate their links with improvised commedia dell'arte, and thus explores in a new way a crucial phase in the development of European theater. It will be of interest to scholars and students in both theater history and Italian studies.
316 pages, Hardcover
First published April 22, 1993
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Richard Andrews
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Dr. Richard Andrews, Ph.D. (University of Hull, 1992) is Professor in Education at the University of East Anglia, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and elected fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Professor Andrews was part of the original team that researched and designed the first edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare in the 1990s, and remains co-series editor of the 3rd edition.
There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
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Dr. Richard Andrews, Ph.D. (University of Hull, 1992) is Professor in Education at the University of East Anglia, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and elected fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Professor Andrews was part of the original team that researched and designed the first edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare in the 1990s, and remains co-series editor of the 3rd edition.
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July 30, 2024
I skipped a lot of the back half of this because I'm really only interested in early Italian theatre: Ariosto, Ruzante, Aretino. But this was very useful, took a ton of notes. And makes a point of going beyond the literary examination of the surviving scripts to ask questions and propose scenarios for how these plays were staged. Commedia dell'arte sounds interesting but I caught myself skimming and realized it was time to move on.
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