Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-501) and index.
Contents:
The many faces of Brighella: the knave we love to hate / Artemis Preeshl -- Form and freedom: between scenario and stage / Robert Henke -- Parallel processing: two playwrights: Scala and Shakespeare / Tim Fitzpatrick -- The Commedia dell'Arte acting companies / Kenneth Richards -- You must have heard of Harlequin ... / Michele Bottini -- Pantalone and il dottore: the old men of commedia / Peter Jordan -- The young lovers / Richard Stockton Rand -- Reading and interpreting the capitano's multiple mask-shapes / Mace Perlman -- Le Servette in Commedia dell'Arte / Julie Goell -- Carnival, comedy and the Commedia: a case study of the mask of Scaramouche / Stephen P.J. Knapper -- Official recognition of Pulcinella: the one who saved the Commedia from extinction by securing its continuity to the present day / Antonio Fava -- The many faces of Brighella: the knave we love to hate / Artemis Preeshl -- Incidental music in Commedia dell'arte performances / Thomas F. Heck -- Mask performance for a contemporary Commedia dell'Arte / Carlos García Estévez -- New roles for the mask in twentieth century theatre / Donato Sartori -- Grommelot / John Rudlin -- Lazzi / Mel Gordon -- Principles of comedy for Commedia dell'Arte / Brian Foley -- Slapstick and comic violence in Commedia dell'Arte / Louise Peacock -- Aristocratic archeology: Greco-Roman roots / Paul Monaghan -- The rise of Commedia dell'Arte in Italy: a historical perspective / Kate Meehan -- The great Ruzante / Linda L. Carroll -- The coming together / Olly Crick -- Staging and staging practices in early Commedia dell'Arte / Franklin J. Hildy and Matthew R. Wilson -- Commedia dell'Arte and the Spanish golden age theatre / Nancy L. D'Antuono -- Celestial sirens of the Commedia dell'Arte stage / Anne E. MacNeil -- Incidental music in Commedia dell'arte performances / Thomas F. Heck -- Giorgio Strehler's Arte: a commedia master directs Shakespeare / Mace Perlman -- Classical ballet and Commedia dell'Arte: Influences / Barry Grantham -- Images of the Commedia dell'Arte / M.A. Katritzky -- The old man's spectacles: commedia and Shakespeare / Andy Grewar -- Shakespeare's clown connection: hybridizing commedia's Zanni / Sara Romersberger -- Writing for the elite: Molière, Marivaux, and Beaumarchais / Elizabeth C. Goldsmith -- Goldoni and Gozzi: reformers with separate agendas / Michael Griffin -- Commedia dell'Arte as grotesque dance: decline or evolution? / Domenico Pietropaolo -- The myth of Pierrot / Mark Evans -- Speechless spectacles: Commedia pantomime in France, England, and the Americas during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Matthew R. Wilson -- From Meyerhold to Eisenstein: Commedia dell'Arte in Russia / J. Douglas Clayton -- Giorgio Strehler's Arte: a commedia master directs Shakespeare / Mace Perlman -- Roots and routes: One Man, Two Guvnors / Didi Hopkins -- Arlecchino Appleseed: or how Carlo Mazzone-Clementi brought commedia to the new world / Joan Schirle -- Despite everything, Commedia dell'Arte is alive in Italy. Long live commedia! / Fabio Mangolini -- Dario Fo and the Commedia dell'Arte / Antonio Scuderi -- Carlo Boso: fear and laughter in popular theatre / Anna Cottis -- Antonio Fava / John Rudlin -- Happy bedfellows: Commedia dell'Arte, politics, and the San Francisco Mime Troupe / Claudia Orenstein -- Commedia in Gloucestershire: rural contexts (2004 to 2010) / Olly Crick -- I Sebastiani: commedia geeks / Judith Chaffee -- Commedia women on stage -- and in the wings / Joan Schirle -- Commedia counterparts: Middle Eastern and Asian connections / Kathy Foley -- Commedia for contemporary theatre maker / Davis Robinson -- Roots and routes: One Man, Two Guvnors / Didi Hopkins -- Commedia in a new world context: the comedy and poetry of survival / Katrien van Beurden -- Bibliography of generally accepted Commedia dell'Arte literature.
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