Robert Henke

Performance and Literature in the Commedia Dell'arte

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the commedia dell'arte: the Italian professional theatre in Shakespeare's time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780521643245
• ISBN-10: 0521643244
• Artikelnr.: 22738721

Autorenporträt

Robert Henke is an Associate Professor of Drama and Comparative Literature at Washington University, St Louis. The recipient of fellowships from Fulbright and Villa I Tatti, he has published articles on Shakespeare and Italian Renaissance drama in Comparative Drama, Genre, and Theatre Survey, among other journals. He is also the author of the book Pastoral Transformations: Italian Tragicomedy and Shakespeare''s Late Plays.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Improvisation and characters
3. Residual orality in early modern Italy and the commedia dell'arte
4. Venetian buffoni
5. Early male actors
6. Early actresses
7. Zanni texts, 1576-88
8. Conclusions and caprices: early texts of the Dottore and Pantalone
9. Tristano Martinelli: a company buffone
10. Theatrical and literary 'composition' in Francesco Andreini and Flaminio Scala
11. The generation of Cecchini: technical, moral and dramaturgical publications
Notes
Bibliography.