Comedy and the Public Sphere : the Rebirth of Theatre as Comedy and the Genealogy of the Modern Public Arena. by Szakolczai, Arpad

Table of Contents: “…Transmitting, receiving and nurturing the Byzantine spirit -- The rise of theatre in Venice -- The effect mechanism of Commedia dell'Arte: visions and realities of commedification -- Commedia dell'Arte: schismogenic sub-plots and irresistible stock-types -- Shakespeare: the tragedy of world history being a comedy -- Representing representation: visionary images of Commedia dell'Arte -- The rebirth of Commedia dell'Arte as the Avant-garde. …”
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Giorgio Strehler Directs Carlo Goldoni / Scott Malia. by Malia, Scott, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Strehler and Goldoni in context -- (Re)discovering commedia dell'arte -- A Brechtian arlecchino -- Refractive theatricality -- Copeau, inversion and integration.…”
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Popular theatre : a sourcebook / edited by Joel Schechter.

Table of Contents: “…Puppets from Bread and Puppet Theatre to Bunraku and Broadway -- part III. Masks : commedia dell'arte and topeng -- part Ivolume Circus, clowns and jesters -- part volume Cabaret, vaudeville and the Fun Palace -- part VI. …”
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The theatres of Molière / Gerry McCarthy. by McCarthy, Gerry

Table of Contents: “…Street and stage -- Education : Jean-Baptiste Poquelin at the Collège de Clermont -- Farceurs : Old French farce and commedia dell'arte -- Country manners -- L'Ècole des femmes and the form of comedy -- The court dramatist -- Stages -- Scenes and costumes -- Acting -- The town playhouse at the Palais-Royal -- The polite audience -- Behaviour reviewed : Le Misanthrope at the Palais-Royal.…”

The theatres of Molière / Gerry McCarthy. by McCarthy, Gerry

Table of Contents: “…Street and stage -- Education : Jean-Baptiste Poquelin at the Collège de Clermont -- Farceurs : Old French farce and commedia dell'arte -- Country manners -- L'Ècole des femmes and the form of comedy -- The court dramatist -- Stages -- Scenes and costumes -- Acting -- The town playhouse at the Palais-Royal -- The polite audience -- Behaviour reviewed : Le Misanthrope at the Palais-Royal.…”
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Les Fourberies de Scapin de Molière (Analyse de l'oeuvre): Comprendre la littérature avec lePetitLittéraire.fr. by Ruch, Ophélie

Table of Contents: “…Molière; Les Fourberies de Scapin; Résumé; Acte I; Acte II; Acte III; Étude des personnages; Scapin; Argante et Géronte; Léandre et Octave; Hyacinte et Zerbinette; Clés de lecture; Contexte historique; Schéma actanciel; Schéma narratif; Genre de l'œuvre; Un valet rusé; Genèse et réception de l'œuvre; L'influence de la commedia dell'arte; Pistes de réflexion; Pour aller plus loin…”
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L'Avare de Molière (Analyse de l'oeuvre) : Comprendre la littérature avec lePetitLittéraire.fr. by Meurée, Florence

Table of Contents: “…Molière; L'Avare; Résumé; Les espoirs de mariage; Rivalité entre le père et le fils; La révélation finale; Étude des personnages; Harpagon; Cléante; Mariane; Valère; Élise; Anselme; Clés de lecture; La commedia dell'arte et les lazzis; L'amour et l'argent, moteurs de l'action; Une comédie sur fond de drame; L'Avare, un bon exemple d'intertextualité; Pistes de réflexion; Pour aller plus loin.…”
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Menander to Marivaux : the History of a Comic Structure. by Greene, E. J. H.

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Preface; Chapter I: The Formula: Structure and Statistics; Chapter II: Sources and Channels; Chapter III: Towards F in France, 1630-1659; Chapter IV: Molière and his Contemporaries; Chapter V: The Conscious Exploitation of F; Chapter VI: Marivaux and his Contemporaries 1715-1760; Chapter VII: The Dissolution of F; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; List of Comedies Considered, 1660-1759; Index; Menander and Greek New Comedy; Plautus; Terence; Commedia umanistica; Commedia erudita; Commedia dell 'arte; French Renaissance Comedy; Trends and Statistics; Corneille.…”
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Audition speeches for women / edited by Jean Marlow.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; More about auditioning; The drama school audition; Principal of the Academy Drama School; Senior Voice Tutor, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art; Working today in professional theatre; The Peter Hall Company; Developing extra skills; Agent and Personal Manager; Opera and Recital Singer -- coaching actors for musicals; Specialising in Commedia dell''Arte and physical theatre; Dialect Coach; Advice from the actors; Samantha Power; Matt Plant; Auditioning for films and television; Casting Director; Auditioning for voiceovers and radio drama.…”
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The Legacy of Benedetto Croce : Contemporary Critical Views. by Trafton, Dain

Table of Contents: “…Croce, philosopher of Naples / Massimo Verdicchio -- Croce and the Commedia dell'arte of Naples / Jack D'Amico -- È stata opera di critica onesta, liberale, italiana : Croce and Napoli nobilissima (1892-1906) / Thomas Willette -- Croce's theory of historical judgment / Renata Viti Cavaliere -- Political doctrine in Croce's History of the kingdom of Naples / Dain A. …”
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Clowns, fools and picaros : popular forms in theatre, fiction and film / edited by David Robb.

Table of Contents: “….; The Cinema of Masks: Commedia dell'Arte and Jean Renoir's The Golden Coach…”
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The puppetry yearbook.

Table of Contents: “…Volume One: Introduction / James Fisher -- The voice of the people / George Speaight -- Puppets and the Commedia dell'Arte in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries / Ryan Howard -- Chapbooks and English puppet plays / John Phillips -- Bunraku : the traditional puppet theater of Japan / Kinko Ito -- The development and characterization : puppet figures of Kasperltheater / Martha Freehan -- The Argentine creole puppet theatre (el teatro criollo argentino de títeres) : an exploratory essay / Donald S. …”

Theatre Symposium, V18 : the Prop's The Thing: Stage Properties Reconsidered. by Symposium, Theatre

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; Through the Eyes of the Property Director; "Summon up the Blood": The Stylized (or Sticky) Stuff of Violence in Three Plays by Sarah Kane; Helen's Theatrical Mêchanê: Props and Costumes in Euripides' Helen; A Cannonade of Weapons: Signs of Transgression in the Early Commedia dell'arte; Adding Some "PEP" ("Proto-Expressionistic Props") to the Swedish Stage: Strindberg's Property Usage and His Intima Teater; Rattle Away at Your Bin: Women, Community, and Bin Lids in Northern Irish Drama; Bearing Witness: The Noose as an Iconic Prop in African American Theatre.…”
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Comedy Tonight! V 16 : Comedy Tonight!. by Malarcher, Jay

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; The Commedia dell'arte as the Quintessence of Comedy -- Stanley Vincent Longman; Creating New Comic Stereotypes on the Croatian Postwar/ Transition Stage -- Boris Senker; A Method to the Madness: Laughter Research, Comedy Training, and Improv -- Patrick Bynane; Comedy Tonight ... and Tomorrow: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Laughter through the Ages -- Diana Calderazzo; Performing Molière's Comedies: Challenges and Approaches -- Biliana Stoytcheva-Horissian; The Laugh Factory? …”
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The director-actor relationship : essays & articles / by John D. Mitchell ; cover art and inside drawings by Matthew James Name. by Mitchell, John D. (John Dietrich), 1917-2005

Table of Contents: “…The theatre of India and Southeast Asia -- Theatre of Western Europe -- The theatre in Russia -- The Moscow Art Theatre in rehearsal -- The theatre of Western Europe: some highlights -- Brecht's theatre, the Berliner Ensemble -- In search of Commedia Dell'Arte -- Andre Gide, rebel and conformist -- The challenge of directing a neo-classical verse tragedy -- Theatre in Mexico moves ahead -- Riches from abroad -- IASTA, an American innovation in workshop production -- The International Amateur Theatre Association -- Is the play the thing?…”

Theatrical spaces and dramatic places : the reemergence of the theatre building in the Renaissance.

Table of Contents: “…Hildy -- Mannerist space in early Commedia dell'Arte iconography / Paul C. Castagno -- Spanish buen retiro theatre, 1638-circa 1812 / John Dowling -- Gothic and post-Gothic theatre: cities, paradise, corrales, globes, and olimpico / August W. …”

Theater appreciation / author: Elizabeth Drake-Boyt. by Drake-Boyt, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…-- Definition -- Not for Entertainment Alone -- Both Craft &amp -- Art -- Attributes of Theater -- Theatrical Spaces -- Basic Theater Types -- Historical Background -- Origins of Prehistory -- Earliest Civilizations -- Festival Theater -- Greek Tragedies &amp -- Comedies -- Medieval Festival Theater -- Liturgical Dramas -- Non-Liturgical Plays -- Cycle, Passion, &amp -- Miracle Plays (Pageant Plays) -- Late Medieval &amp -- Early Renaissance: Northern Europe -- Earliest Professional Dramatists: For Gain &amp -- Profit -- Hellenistic Greek &amp -- Roman Empire -- Renaissance Theater -- Opera -- Court Masques -- Commedia dell'arte (Comedy of Professional Actors) -- Elizabethan Dramatists Pre-Shakespeare -- Shakespeare's Theater -- Restoration Dramas -- Romanticism -- Early American Theaters -- American Pioneer Theater -- Melodramas -- Vaudeville -- Minstrel Shows -- Modern Opera -- Operettas -- Modern Theater -- Global Diversity -- Basic Parts of a Modern Theater Building -- Putting on a Play: A Creative Collaboration -- Backstage Superstitions -- Types of Modern Theatrical Companies -- Fully Professional -- Regional &amp -- Repertory -- Community or Civic -- Educational -- Other -- Popular Plays.…”
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Shakespeare in succession : translation and time / edited by Michael Saenger and Sergio Costola.

Table of Contents: “…6 Entangled and Embodied Knowledge(s) in the "many strange dishes" of Much Ado about Nothing in Performance -- 7 Lyric Reflection: Translating the Script of a kunqu Romeo and Juliet into English -- Part 2: Theorizing translation -- 8 Celebrating Life: Translation as an Act of Survival -- 9 Shakespeare's Fathers and the Undead Renaissance -- 10 Commedia dell'Arte Translations: Three Pantalones in The Merchant of Venice -- 11 A Mirror up to Hamlet: Translations of Shakespeare in Japan -- 12 Shu Lin and the Earliest Image of Shakespeare in China -- Translingual Shakespeare: An Afterword…”
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Telling stories : a grand unifying theory of acting techniques / Mark Rafael. by Rafael, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Alexander -- Antonin Artaud -- Augusto Boal -- Anne Bogart -- Peter Brook -- Robert Brustein -- Jacques Copeau -- Richard Foreman -- Jerzy Grotowski -- Uta Hagen -- Rudolf Laban -- Vsevolod Meyerhold -- Viola Spolin -- Tadashi Suzuki -- Yevgeny Vakhtangov -- Commedia dell'arte -- The living theatre -- Telling classical stories. …”

Modernism in European Drama : Essays from Modern Drama. by Innes, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- CONTENTS -- DATES OF ORIGINAL PUBLICATION -- INTRODUCTION -- The Dangerous Seductions of the Past: Ibsen's Counter-Discourse to Modernity -- Patterns of Structure and Character in Ibsen's Rosmersholm -- Marriage, Metaphysics and The Lady from the Sea Problem -- The Unspoken Text in Hedda Gabler -- Ibsen's Endgame: A Reconsideration of When We Dead Awaken -- Strindberg and Ibsen: Toward a Cubism of Time in Drama -- Strindberg's Miss Julie and the Legend of Salomé -- Strindberg's To Damascus: Archetypal Autobiography -- Pirandello's Mirror -- Pirandellian Theatre Games: Spectator as Victim -- An Author in Search of Characters: Pirandello and Commedia dell'arte -- Sicilian Themes and the Restructured Stage: The Dialectic of Fiction and Drama in the Work of Luigi Pirandello -- Six Characters: Pirandello's Last Tape -- Godotology: There's Lots of Time in Godot -- Action and Play in Beckett's Theater -- Acting for Beckett -- Beckett as Director: The Manuscript Production Notebooks and Critical Interpretation -- Being and Non-Being: Samuel Beckett's Not I -- Samuel Beckett's Media Plays -- Reading as Theatre: Understanding Defamiliarization in Beckett's Art -- Roundelay -- SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.…”
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