• publisher: The Columbia university press
  • creator: Winifred Smith
  • contributor: University of Michigan
  • mediatype: texts
  • years: 1912
  • pages: 329
  • language: English
  • lccn: 12023493
  • notes: Definition of the commedia dell'arte. -- Origin of the commedia dell'arte: I. The mountebanks. -- Origin of the commedia dell'arte, continued: II. The academies. -- Some typical scenarios. -- The commedia dell'arte in foreign countries, 16th and 17th centuries: France, Germany and Austria, Spain. -- The commedia dell'arte in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. -- The transformation of the commedia dell'arte. -- Conclusion: The commedia dell'arte as a kind of farce ; Its material and point of view ; Its contributions to dramatic technic. -- Appendix A: Scenarios. -- Appendix B: Relations between English and Italian drama in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
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