LEADER 05242oam 2200625I 450 001 9910787927603321 005 20170821205407.0 010 $a1-317-61336-8 010 $a1-138-22499-5 010 $a1-315-75084-8 010 $a1-317-61337-6 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315750842 035 $a(CKB)2670000000577481 035 $a(EBL)1864820 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001368728 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12610181 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001368728 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11463403 035 $a(PQKB)10623486 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1864820 035 $a(OCoLC)896794804 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000577481 100 $a20180706d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe Routledge companion to Commedia dell'Arte /$fedited by Judith Chaffee and Olly Crick 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon ;$aNew York, N.Y. :$cRoutledge,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (541 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-74506-3 311 $a1-322-32784-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Notes on contributors; Introduction; PART I The defining features: Actors, scenarios, troupes, stock characters, masks, language and lazzi; Actors; 1 The pre-eminence of the actor in renaissance context: Subverting the social order; Scenarios; 2 Form and Freedom: Between scenario and stage; 3 Parallel Processing: Two playwrights: Scala and Shakespeare; Troupes; 4 The Commedia dell'Arte acting companies; Stock characters; 5 You must have heard of Harlequin... 327 $a6 Pantalone and il Dottore: The old men of Commedia7 The Young Lovers; 8 Reading and interpreting the Capitano's multiple mask-shapes; 9 Le Servette in Commedia dell'Arte; 10 Carnival, comedy and the Commedia: A case study of the mask of Scaramouche; 11 Official recognition of Pulcinella: The one who saved the Commedia from extinction by securing its continuity to the present day; 12 The many faces of Brighella: The knave we love to hate; Masks; 13 A mask maker's journey; 14 Mask performance for a contemporary Commedia dell'Arte; 15 New roles for the mask in twentieth century theatre 327 $aLanguage16 Grommelot; Lazzi; 17 Lazzi; 18 Principles of comedy for Commedia dell'Arte; 19 Slapstick and comic violence in Commedia dell'Arte; PART II Historical context: What we know from whom, about what, and why it matters; 20 Aristocratic archeology: Greco-Roman roots; 21 The rise of Commedia dell'Arte in Italy: A historical perspective; 22 The Great Ruzante; 23 The coming together; 24 Staging and staging practices in early Commedia dell'Arte; 25 Commedia dell'Arte and the Spanish Golden Age Theatre; 26 Celestial sirens of the Commedia dell'Arte Stage 327 $a27 Incidental music in Commedia dell'Arte performances28 Meetings on Naxos: Opera and Commedia dell'Arte; 29 Classical Ballet and Commedia dell'Arte: Influences; 30 Images of the Commedia dell'Arte; 31 The old man's spectacles: Commedia and Shakespeare; 32 Shakespeare's clown connection: Hybridizing Commedia's Zanni; 33. Writing for the Elite: Molie?re, Marivaux, and Beaumarchais; 34 Goldoni and Gozzi: Reformers with separate agendas; 35 Commedia dell'Arte as grotesque dance: Decline or evolution?; 36 The myth of Pierrot 327 $a37 Speechless spectacles: Commedia pantomime in France, England, and the Americas during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries38 From Meyerhold to Eisenstein: Commedia dell'Arte in Russia; 39 Giorgio Strehler's Arte: A Commedia master directs Shakespeare; 40 Giovanni Poli: The missing link; 41 Arlecchino Appleseed: Or how Carlo Mazzone-Clementi brought Commedia to the New World; PART III Alive and well and living in...; 42 Despite everything, Commedia dell'Arte is alive in Italy. Long live Commedia!; 43 Dario Fo and the Commedia Dell'Arte; 44 Carlo Boso: Fear and laughter in popular theatre 327 $a45 Antonio Fava 330 $aFrom Commedia dell'Arte came archetypal characters that are still with us today, such as Harlequin and Pantalone, and the rediscovered craft of writing comic dramas and masked theatre. From it came the forces that helped create and influence Opera, Ballet, Pantomime, Shakespeare, Moliere, Lopes de Vega, Goldoni, Meyerhold, and even the glove puppet, Mr Punch.The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell'Arte is a wide-ranging volume written by over 50 experts, that traces the history, characteristics, and development of this fascinating yet elusive theatre form. In synthesizing the elements of Comm 517 3 $aCompanion to Commedia dell'Arte 606 $aCommedia dell'arte$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aCommedia dell'arte$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a852/.052309 701 $aChaffee$b Judith$01537408 701 $aCrick$b Olly$f1960-$01537409 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787927603321 996 $aThe Routledge companion to Commedia dell'Arte$93786701 997 $aUNINA