| Contents |
Improvisation: why, what, how -- Acting style: dialects, gesture, voice, scenarios -- Masks: the uses of masks -- Coda: commedia dell'arte today. |
| Summary |
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. 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. These chapters on historical performance are followed by a coda on commedia dell'arte today. Together they offer readers a look at both past and present iterations of these performances. 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. |
| General note | "Routledge Focus"--Cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Schmitt, Natalie Crohn. Performing Commedia dell'Arte, 1570-1630. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020 9780429023040 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2019016504 |
| ISBN | 9780367085650 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | 0367085658 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |
| Standard identifier# |
40029519430 |
