TY  - BOOK
AU  - Andrews,Richard Professor of Italian
TI  - Scripts and scenarios: the performance of comedy in Renaissance Italy 
SN  - 9780521353571
U1  - 852.05230903 23
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Cambridge [England]
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Italian drama -- To 1700 -- History and criticism
KW  - Italian drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism
KW  - Theater -- Italy -- History -- 16th century
KW  - Renaissance -- Italy
KW  - History
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Italian drama
KW  - Italian drama (Comedy)
N2  - 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. These scripted comedies, first written and performed for private audiences, ranged in tone from sober moralism to scurrilous farce, and influenced European dramatists from Shakespeare to Molière and Lope de Vega. This book gives an account of how the new dramatic experiment was born and grew, moving from closed courtly audiences to a wider public. It examines the performing values of these scripts rather than their literary qualities, in order to demonstrate their links with improvised commedia dell'arte, and thus explores a crucial phase in the development of European theater. It will be of interest to scholars and students in both theater history and Italian studies
ER  -