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The Italian Renaissance produced a new type of stage comedy, experimental and even revolutionary in its time, by copying and updating the dramatic formats of Plautus and Terence from ancient Rome. The influence of these innovations on European drama - Shakespeare, Jonson, Moliere, Lope de Vega - is a familiar fact in outline, but the Italian plays themselves are unfamiliar to English-speaking readers and audiences. They were written and performed for private audiences, and show a surprising variety of tone, from sober moralism to scurrilous farce. Authors range from the well-known and respectable Ariosto and Machiavelli through the anarchic Aretino to the barely accessible genius of Ruzante - and some plays, not the least successful, had collective authorship. This book gives an account of how the new dramatic experiment was born anew, moving from closed courtly audiences to a wider public. By concentrating on the order in which things happened, it underlines the novelty of almost everything that was produced. By highlighting performing qualities, rather than literary ones, it is able to show how improvised commedia dell'arte depended to a surprising degree on these relatively resp
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- Author
- Andrews, Richard, Richard Andrews
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521353571
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Romance, History