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. Ed(S): Cotticelli, Francesco; Heck, Anne Goodrich; Heck, Thomas F. - The Commedia dell'Arte in Naples. A Bilingual Edition of the 176 Casamarciano Scenarios.  - 9780810841161 - V9780810841161
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The Commedia dell'Arte in Naples. A Bilingual Edition of the 176 Casamarciano Scenarios.

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Description for The Commedia dell'Arte in Naples. A Bilingual Edition of the 176 Casamarciano Scenarios. Hardback. The Italian comedy "Commedia dell'arte", an improvised performance art that flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries, vanished leaving few traces. What remains are some manuscript collections of plot outlines, and this work offers bilingual access to the largest collection of scenarios. Editor(s): Cotticelli, Francesco; Heck, Anne Goodrich; Heck, Thomas F. Translator(s): Cotticelli, Francesco; Heck, Anne Goodrich; Heck, Thomas F. Num Pages: 1168 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DST; AN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 222 x 73. Weight in Grams: 3153.
Commedia dell'arte, an improvised performance art that flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries, vanished leaving very few traces. What remain, besides some intriguing descriptions, are about a dozen manuscript collections of plot outlines, or scenarios, often written in dialect, which the Italian professional actors must have used to guide them through each drama, from scene to scene and act to act. Only a few such collections have ever been published in Italian, and far fewer in English translation. The present volume remedies this situation by providing bilingual access to the largest known collection of scenarios: the Casamarciano manuscripts of Naples. There are 176 decipherable scenarios in the source's two volumes. They record some important early examples of plays or operas that would later become famous, like the legend of the stone guest (cf. Molière's Don Juan ou, Le Festin de Pierre, or Mozart's Don Giovanni), preserved in this manuscript under the title "Comvitato de Pietra." They also give us a rare glimpse into living cultural traditions that were at the root of modern theater. Stock characters like clueless Pulcinella and cunning Coviello, jealous lovers and lecherous fathers, swaggering soldiers, mystified strangers, and clever chambermaids—all conspire to bring to life an art form too long hidden in indecipherable Italian manuscripts. This book received a 2001 Weiss/ Brown Publication Subvention Award from the Newberry Library. The award supports the publication of outstanding works of scholarship that cover European civilization before 1700 in the areas of music, theater, French or Italian literature, or cultural studies. It is made to commemorate the career of Howard Mayer Brown.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
1168
Condition
New
Number of Pages
1168
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810841161
SKU
V9780810841161
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About . Ed(S): Cotticelli, Francesco; Heck, Anne Goodrich; Heck, Thomas F.
Francesco Cotticelli is the professor of theatre studies at the University of Cagliari. Thomas F. Heck is emeritus professor of the Ohio State University Libraries and has published extensively on the performing arts. Anne Goodrich Heck is a professional translator.

Reviews for The Commedia dell'Arte in Naples. A Bilingual Edition of the 176 Casamarciano Scenarios.
...the most exciting collection of commedia scenarios available in English (and, in the case of this edition, also in Italian)....a resource of surpassing quality....Scarecrow, is to be congratulated on their foresight in encouraging such an enormous and lavish project. The thoroughness of this one-of-a-kind project is breathtaking...an essential addition to any library....
Journal Of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol. XVII, No. 1 (Fall 2002)
...a publication of enormous significance....a wonderful resource that will enable much future scholarship and practice.
Theatre Survey, Vol. 45, No. 1 (May 2004)
...this addition has no equal....
Music & Letters, Vol. 85, No. 3 (2004)
...groundbreaking...a key source text....this collection is of enormous value....offers a rich new field of investigation....
Annali D'Italianistica, Vol. 21 (2003)
Anne Goodrich Heck and Thomas Heck merit special praise for their impeccable translations, their attention to detail, and their respect for the integrity of the original texts.
Costanza Gislon Dopfel
ECCB: The Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography

Goodreads reviews for The Commedia dell'Arte in Naples. A Bilingual Edition of the 176 Casamarciano Scenarios.


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