Suitable for both scholars and performers, Performing Commedia dell'Arte, 1570-1630 bears on essential questions about the techniques of performance and their utility for this important theatrical form.Author(s): Natalie Crohn Schmitt (see profile) Date: 2015 Group(s): CLCS European Regions, CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern, GS Drama and Performance Subject(s): Drama, Italian literature Item Type: Article Tag(s): literary history, commedia dell'arte, Early modern studies Permanent URL: Abstract: Commedia dell’Arte was the most influential and widespread theatre movement in sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Europe. Together they offer readers a look at both past and present iterations of these performances. These chapters on historical performance are followed by a coda on commedia dell'arte today. Chapters include one on why, what, and how actors improvised, one on acting styles, including dialects, voice and gesture and one on masks and their uses and importance. This book is winner of Ennio Flaiano Award in Italianistica, 2020. Performing Commedia dell'Arte, 1570-1630 explores the performance techniques employed in commedia dell'arte and the ways in which they served to rapidly spread the ideas that were to form the basis of modern theatre throughout Europe.
These chapters on historical performance are followed by.
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