Jo Ann Cavallo

The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo (1884-1947)

The Paladins of France in America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study reconstructs the history of the Manteo family marionette theater in New York City, provides translations of eight selected plays and 270 extant summaries, and offers comparative analyses uncovering how Agrippino Manteo's scripts creatively adapt Italian Renaissance chivalric poems and nineteenth-century prose compilations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9781839993947
• ISBN-10: 1839993944
• Artikelnr.: 71817908

Autorenporträt

Jo Ann Cavallo (Ph.D., Yale, 1987), Professor of Italian at Columbia University, has published widely on Italian chivalric epic, including The World beyond Europe in the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto and The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso: From Public Duty to Private Pleasure.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Alessandro Napoli
Preface
Introduction
Part One The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo and Family
Part Two Select Plays from the Paladins of France Cycle
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Marionettes owned by the Manteo family in the 1980s
Appendix 2: Manteo marionettes donated to the Italian American Museum in 2010
Appendix 3: Extant publications from the library of Agrippino Manteo
Appendix 4: Paladins of France scripts in the handwriting of Agrippino Manteo
Appendix 5: Agrippino Manteo's summaries of plays in the Paladins of France cycle
Appendix 6: Select Characters from the Paladins of France Cycle
Appendix 7: Manteo family genealogy
Works Cited
Index