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Performance and Literature in the Commedia Dell'arte

Performance and Literature in the Commedia Dell'arte

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521172381
ISBN13: 9780521172387
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Dec 16 2010
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The actors of the commedia dell'arte (the sixteenth-century Italian professional theater) usually did not perform from scripted drama. They improvised their performances from a shared plot and thorough knowledge of individual character roles. Robert Henke analyzes commedia dell'arte texts to demonstrate how the spoken word and written literature were combined in performance. Henke examines primary sources including performance accounts, actors' contracts, letters and other documents.

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