Download or read book The Italian Theatre From Its Beginning to the Close of the Seventeenth Century written by Joseph Spencer Kennard and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From its beginning to the close of the seventeenth century written by Joseph Spencer Kennard and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Italian Theatre written by and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Italian Theatre From Its Beginning to the Close of the Seventeeth Century written by Joseph Spencer Kennard and published by READ BOOKS. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ITALIAN THEATRE- FROM ITS BEGINNING TO THE CLOSE OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY by JOSEPH SPENCER. Originally published in 1931. FOREWORD: A HISTORY of the Italian Theatre should mean more than a study of important Italian plays. It should reflect the successive phases of the Italian social conscience, and through the succeeding centuries of the national evolution, depict the changing life of the Italian people. Such a theatre presumes to photograph life, not omitting its crudities and cruelties. It will also interpret the national character, and portray the historical background. It is also the theatre of psychology, presenting the struggle between the flesh and the spirit, the losing and win ning of Mansoul. It is also the teatro di poesia, wherein reality is transformed by the poet into drama. More even than all this its stage is the world, since the church, the civilization, the liter ature of Western Europe, of which the theatre is a part, are all of Italian origin. To compass adequately, within a few hundred printed pages, a subject so vast, so varied, is impossible. For the privilege of saying a little, the author has been obliged to omit much, to com press more, and sometimes, perhaps, to appear dogmatic and superficial. To my wife, for her constant help and encouragement, to the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge for this distinguished example of the printer s art, and their unfailing courtesy and to those others who have been helpful, I am grateful. . s. K. Ne w Tork November, 1931. Contents include: CHAPTER I PAGE 3 THE ORIGIN OF THE ITALIAN THEATRE, CLASSICAL AND CHRISTIAN The pagan Roman theatre as one of the sources of the Italian theatre, a comparison of the Greek and Roman theatre with reference to the benefits and liabilities result ing from the imitation of Greek art Native Latin drama the satura, satire, and atellanai Latin poets important for their influence upon the Italian theatre Plautus, Terence, and Seneca Antagonism of the early Christian Church to the corrupt Augustan theatre Rise of pantomimic art, Chirosofi and Panfoni, cantico and fantoccio Satirization of the Church by the mimes Their persistence past the tenth century The writings of Hrosvita. The Christian Church as the second and more important source of the Italian theatre Elaboration of Church ritual Gradual dramatization of the Roman liturgy Evolution of the liturgical drama Consolidation of episodes, apocryphal insertions of characters and narratives Growing complexity of scenery with consequent shift from ecclesiastical locale Change to the vernacular Reasons for the Church s policy in enriching the ritual suggested Typical sacred drama. CHAPTER II PAGE 21 THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND THE MEDIAEVAL THEATRE The relation of the drama to contemporary Italian life Early history of the Roman Catholic Church Ascendancy of Church over State Conflict between Empire and Papacy Penance of Henry IV Distinction between the early Christian Church of the Apostles and Romanized Church The lattcr s influence upon all intellectual and artistic activities The Church s organization of the theatre. Additional sources of the Christian Drama the laud Cult of the disciplinati and Flagellants and their lauds Classification of the laud Its evolution into dramatic form the Devotioni-. Cyclical Drama Connection of the laud with religious text and liturgy Spread of the Dcvotioni. The Sacra Rappresentazione...
Download or read book The Italian Theatre written by Joseph S. Kennard and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Italian Theatre From the close of the seventeenth century written by Joseph Spencer Kennard and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Italian Theatre From its beginning to the close of the seventeenth century written by Joseph Spencer Kennard and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Legend of Dion written by Lionel Jehuda Sanders and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2008-03-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary study examines how the accounts of a historical figure, the so-called democrat and liberal Dion, have been distorted and reworked by ancient and modern writers alike.
Download or read book From the close of the seventeenth century written by Joseph Spencer Kennard and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Italian Theatre written by and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Italian Culture in the Drama of Shakespeare His Contemporaries written by Michele Marrapodi and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying recent developments in new historicism and cultural materialism-along with the new perspectives opened up by the current debate on intertextuality and the construction of the theatrical text-the essays collected here reconsider the pervasive infl
Download or read book Inventing the Opera House written by Eugene J. Johnson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the invention of the architecture of the modern opera house in Italy between the late fifteenth and late seventeenth centuries.
Download or read book A History of Italian Theatre written by Joseph Farrell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-16 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Italian theatre from its origins to the the time of this book's publication in 2006. The text discusses the impact of all the elements and figures integral to the collaborative process of theatre-making. The distinctive nature of Italian theatre is expressed in the individual chapters by highly regarded international scholars.
Download or read book Eleonora Duse written by Helen Sheehy and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new biography, the first in two decades, of the legendary actress who inspired Anton Chekhov, popularized Henrik Ibsen, and spurred Stanislavski to create a new theory of acting based on her art and to invoke her name at every rehearsal. Writers loved her and wrote plays for her. She be-friended Rainer Maria Rilke and inspired the young James Joyce, who kept a portrait of her on his desk. Her greatest love, the poet d’Annunzio, made her the heroine of his novel Il fuoco (The Flame). She radically changed the art of acting: in a duel between the past and the future, she vanquished her rival, Sarah Bernhardt. Chekhov said of her, “I’ve never seen anything like it. Looking at Duse, I realized why the Russian theatre is such a bore.” Charlie Chaplin called her “the finest thing I have seen on the stage.” Gloria Swanson and Lillian Gish watched her perform with adoring attention, John Barrymore with awe. Shaw said she “touches you straight on the very heart.” When asked about her acting, Duse responded that, quite simply, it came from life. Except for one short film, Duse’s art has been lost. Despite dozens of books about her, her story is muffled by legend and myth. The sentimental image that prevails is of a misty, tragic heroine victimized by men, by life; an artist of unearthly purity, without ambition. Now Helen Sheehy, author of the much admired biography of Eva Le Gallienne, gives us a different Duse—a woman of strength and resolve, a woman who knew pain but could also inflict it. “Life is hard,” she said, “one must wound or be wounded.” She wanted to reveal on the stage the truth about women’s lives and she wanted her art to endure. Drawing on newly discovered material, including Duse’s own memoir, and unpublished letters and notes, Sheehy brings us to an understanding of the great actress’s unique ways of working: Duse acting out of her sense of her character’s inner life, Duse anticipating the bold aspects of modernism and performing with a sexual freedom that shocked and thrilled audiences. She edited her characters’ lines to bare skeletons, asked for the simplest sets and costumes. Where other actresses used hysterics onstage, Duse used stillness. Sheehy writes about the Duse that the actress herself tried to hide—tracing her life from her childhood as a performing member of a family of actors touring their repertory of drama and commedia dell’arte through Italy. We follow her through her twenties and through the next four decades of commissioning and directing plays, running her own company, and illuminating a series of great roles that included Emile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin, Marguerite in Dumas’s La Dame aux camélias, Nora in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, and Hedda in his Hedda Gabler. When she thought her beauty was fading at fifty-one, she gave up the stage, only to return to the theatre in her early sixties; she traveled to America and enchanted audiences across the country. She died as she was born—on tour. Sheehy’s illuminating book brings us as close as we have ever been to the woman and the artist.
Download or read book The French Stage in the XVIIth Century written by Thomas Edward Lawrenson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1957 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Italian Theatre From the close of the seventeenth century written by Joseph Spencer Kennard and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Commedia dell Arte in Context written by Christopher B. Balme and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The commedia dell'arte, the improvised Italian theatre that dominated the European stage from 1550 to 1750, is arguably the most famous theatre tradition to emerge from Europe in the early modern period. Its celebrated masks have come to symbolize theatre itself and have become part of the European cultural imagination. Over the past twenty years a revolution in commedia dell'arte scholarship has taken place, generated mainly by a number of distinguished Italian scholars. Their work, in which they have radically separated out the myth from the history of the phenomenon remains, however, largely untranslated into English (or any other language). The present volume gathers together these Italian and English-speaking scholars to synthesize for the first time this research for both specialist and non-specialist readers. The book is structured around key topics that span both the early modern period and the twentieth-century reinvention of the commedia dell'arte.
