Elissa B. Weaver

Convent Theatre in Early Modern Italy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A pioneering study of all-female convent theatre in early modern Italy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 677g
• ISBN-13: 9780521550826
• ISBN-10: 0521550823
• Artikelnr.: 35453808

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Notes on texts and translations
Introduction
1. Renaissance culture in Italian convents, 1450-1650
2. The convent theatre tradition
3. Plays and playwrights: the earliest examples
4. Spiritual comedies in the convents
5. From manuscript to print, from the convent to the world
6. Beyond Tuscany
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.