The Artificial Body in Fashion and Art : Marionettes, Models and Mannequins. by Geczy, Adam

Table of Contents: “…Cover page; Halftitle page; Praise page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 CLOTHES OF CARNIVAL: PERSONAL PUPPETEERING AND ROLE PLAY; Precursors: Atellan farce; Pulchinello and Punch; Commedia clowns and the mind-body problem; Representations of the commedia dell'arte in art; 2 A SOUL IN CONTROL: THE ART OF THE AUTOMATON; Early automata; Pygmalion and Pygmalionism; Vaucanson; The art of automata; The chess-playing Turk; The end of a fantasy, the beginning of a contrivance.…”
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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. …”

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. …”

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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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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Set the stage! : teaching Italian through theater / edited by Nicoletta Marini-Maio and Colleen Ryan-Scheutz.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Nicoletta Marini-Maio and Colleen Ryan-Scheutz -- Prologue: Theater performance with American students / Dacia Maraini -- Authors, texts, and innovative movements: an overview of the Italian theatrical canon / Pietro Frassica -- Acting Italian: from the piazza to the stage / William Van Watson -- The theatrical workshop in the Italian curriculum / Salvatore Bancheri -- Creative connections: the theater practicum and the integration of language and literature study / Francesca Savoia -- Theater texts and techniques in the high school classroom / Laura Colangelo and Colleen Ryan-Scheutz -- Epic theater, comic mode: understanding Italian society through the works of Dario Fo and Franca Rame / Walter Valeri -- Commedia dell'Arte's techniques: theater research and Italian language interplay / Gian Giacomo Colli -- Opera as theme, opera as theater: a content-based approach to the teaching of Italian language and culture / Daniela Noé-Le Sassier and Frances Boyd -- Full-scale play production: filling the "empty space" between language and literature with Fo and Pirandello / Nicoletta Martini-Maio -- Community, culture, and body language: staging the female voice in the Italian drama workshop / Antonella Del Fattore-Olson -- Proficiency and performance: assessing learner progress in the Italian theater workshop / Colleen Ryan-Scheutz -- Afterward: an interview with Dario Fo and Franca Rame. …”
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Actors on acting ; the theories, techniques, and practices of the great actors of all times as told in their own words / Edited with introductions & biographical notes by Toby Cole and Helen Krich Chinoy. by Cole, Toby, 1916-

Table of Contents: “…., 15th century -- Italy. The Commedia Dell' Arte ; Leone Di Somi ; Pietro Maria Cecchini ; Nicolo Barbieri ; Andrea Perrucci ; Evaristo Gherardi ; Luigi Riccoboni -- Spain. …”

Toneelbespiegelingen : inleidingen op drama's uit het wereldrepertoire. by Erenstein, R. L.

Table of Contents: “…Opkomst en ondergang van deCommedia dell'Arte; 5. A Midsummer Night's Dream door dePaardenkathedraal; 6. …”
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Learning like a girl : educating our daughters in schools of their own / Diana Meehan. by Meehan, Diana M., 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Note from a Dad; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE; 1 The Girl Pause; 2 The Odyssey; 3 In Their Footsteps; 4 Bad Fairy at the Christening; 5 Headstrong Puppets; 6 At the Board Meeting; 7 Shortbread Cookies; 8 The Wholeness of It; 9 Elite and Connected; 10 Bump, Set, Spike; 11 One Star, Two Heads; PART TWO; 12 Slings and Arrows; 13 Into the Breach; 14 This Shining Adventure; 15 Nefarious Activities; 16 Comedy Saves; 17 The Moon in a Silver Bag; 18 The Abyss; 19 To Seek My Fortune; 20 Signs of the Times; 21 Science, Math, and Joy; 22 Where the Boys Are; Afterword.…”
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Androcles and the lion / adapted by Aurand Harris. by Harris, Aurand

Shakespeare and his contemporaries in performance / edited by Edward J. Esche.

Table of Contents: “…The Italian job: the poetics of graced performance in the Commedia dell'arte and in Jonson's Humour plays / Rocco Coronato ; 12. …”

The History of Theater / Classroom Video (Firm).

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The encyclopedia of world folk dance / Mary Ellen Snodgrass. by Snodgrass, Mary Ellen

Table of Contents: “…Acrobatic Dance -- Allemande -- Andrean Dance -- Animal Dancesss -- Arab Dance -- Art, Folk Dance in -- Attire -- Balkan Dance -- Bamboula -- Barn Dance -- Belly Dance -- Body Art -- Bolero -- Branle -- Cachucha -- Cajun Dance -- Cakewalk -- Calenda -- Carmagnole -- Ceilidh -- Censorship -- Chain Dance -- Circle Dance -- Clogging -- Comic Dance -- Coming of Age -- Commedia Dell'Arte -- Community Dance -- Concheros Dance -- Contradance -- Corroboree -- Cotillion -- Cotton-Eye Joe -- Creole Dance -- Czardas -- Dance Drama -- Diaspora -- Disguise -- Dragon Dance -- Drumming -- Eskimo Dance House -- Exorcism -- Fado -- Fancy Dance -- Fan Dance -- Fandango -- Farandole -- Film, Folk Dance in -- Finales -- Flamenco -- Flowers -- Furlana -- Galliard -- Galop -- Gavotte -- Gendered Dance -- Ghost Dance -- Ghurei Dance -- Greek Dance -- Halling -- Handkerchief Dance -- Harvest Dance -- Headdress -- Healing Dance -- Highland Fling -- Holiday Dance -- Hoop Dance -- Hopak -- Hora -- Hornpipe -- Huayno -- Hula -- Hunting Dance -- Indonesian Dance -- Jarabe Tapatio -- Jewelry -- Jewish Dance -- Jig -- Joropo -- Jota -- Juba -- Juvenile Dancers -- Kathak -- Kurdish Dance -- Labyrinthine Dance -- Lamentation Dance -- Landler -- Line Dance -- Lion Dance -- Literature, Folk Dance in -- Malay Dance -- Manipuri Dance -- Martial Dance -- Masked Dance -- Matachines -- Mating Dance -- Mayim Mayim -- Maypole Dance -- Mazurka -- Merengue -- Mime -- Morris Dance -- Music, Folk Dance -- North African Dance -- Nudity -- Nuptial Dance -- Oberek -- Odori -- Parasol Dance -- Partnering -- Pasodoble -- Pavane -- Persian Dance -- Pipe Dance -- Planting Dance -- Polka -- Polonaise -- Polska -- Polynesian Dance -- Processionals -- Propitiation -- Pyrrhic Dance -- Quadrille -- Reel -- Rigaudon -- Roma Dance -- Roman Dance -- Sacrificial Dance -- Saltarello -- Sarabande -- Scalp Dance -- Scarf Dance -- Schottische -- Schuhplattler -- Scripture, Folk Dance in -- Shaker Dance -- Shamanic Dance -- Shawl Dance -- Siberian Dance -- Square Dance -- Step Dance -- Stomp Dance -- Story Dance -- Sub-Saharan Dance -- Sufi Dance -- Sun Dance -- Sword Dance -- Tango -- Tanko Bushi -- Tarantella -- Technique -- Terminology -- Thai Dance -- Tinikling -- Tirabol -- Totemic Dance -- Totentanz -- Varsouvienne -- Veiled Dance -- Volta -- Walpurgis Dance -- Waltz -- Warrior Dance -- Wiccan Dance -- Worship Dance -- Zapateado -- Zydeco.…”
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The encyclopedia of world folk dance / Mary Ellen Snodgrass. by Snodgrass, Mary Ellen

Table of Contents: “…Acrobatic Dance -- Allemande -- Andrean Dance -- Animal Dancesss -- Arab Dance -- Art, Folk Dance in -- Attire -- Balkan Dance -- Bamboula -- Barn Dance -- Belly Dance -- Body Art -- Bolero -- Branle -- Cachucha -- Cajun Dance -- Cakewalk -- Calenda -- Carmagnole -- Ceilidh -- Censorship -- Chain Dance -- Circle Dance -- Clogging -- Comic Dance -- Coming of Age -- Commedia Dell'Arte -- Community Dance -- Concheros Dance -- Contradance -- Corroboree -- Cotillion -- Cotton-Eye Joe -- Creole Dance -- Czardas -- Dance Drama -- Diaspora -- Disguise -- Dragon Dance -- Drumming -- Eskimo Dance House -- Exorcism -- Fado -- Fancy Dance -- Fan Dance -- Fandango -- Farandole -- Film, Folk Dance in -- Finales -- Flamenco -- Flowers -- Furlana -- Galliard -- Galop -- Gavotte -- Gendered Dance -- Ghost Dance -- Ghurei Dance -- Greek Dance -- Halling -- Handkerchief Dance -- Harvest Dance -- Headdress -- Healing Dance -- Highland Fling -- Holiday Dance -- Hoop Dance -- Hopak -- Hora -- Hornpipe -- Huayno -- Hula -- Hunting Dance -- Indonesian Dance -- Jarabe Tapatio -- Jewelry -- Jewish Dance -- Jig -- Joropo -- Jota -- Juba -- Juvenile Dancers -- Kathak -- Kurdish Dance -- Labyrinthine Dance -- Lamentation Dance -- Landler -- Line Dance -- Lion Dance -- Literature, Folk Dance in -- Malay Dance -- Manipuri Dance -- Martial Dance -- Masked Dance -- Matachines -- Mating Dance -- Mayim Mayim -- Maypole Dance -- Mazurka -- Merengue -- Mime -- Morris Dance -- Music, Folk Dance -- North African Dance -- Nudity -- Nuptial Dance -- Oberek -- Odori -- Parasol Dance -- Partnering -- Pasodoble -- Pavane -- Persian Dance -- Pipe Dance -- Planting Dance -- Polka -- Polonaise -- Polska -- Polynesian Dance -- Processionals -- Propitiation -- Pyrrhic Dance -- Quadrille -- Reel -- Rigaudon -- Roma Dance -- Roman Dance -- Sacrificial Dance -- Saltarello -- Sarabande -- Scalp Dance -- Scarf Dance -- Schottische -- Schuhplattler -- Scripture, Folk Dance in -- Shaker Dance -- Shamanic Dance -- Shawl Dance -- Siberian Dance -- Square Dance -- Step Dance -- Stomp Dance -- Story Dance -- Sub-Saharan Dance -- Sufi Dance -- Sun Dance -- Sword Dance -- Tango -- Tanko Bushi -- Tarantella -- Technique -- Terminology -- Thai Dance -- Tinikling -- Tirabol -- Totemic Dance -- Totentanz -- Varsouvienne -- Veiled Dance -- Volta -- Walpurgis Dance -- Waltz -- Warrior Dance -- Wiccan Dance -- Worship Dance -- Zapateado -- Zydeco.…”
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Movement for actors / edited by Nicole Potter.

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Theatre history explained / Neil Fraser. by Fraser, Neil, 1958-

The Cambridge introduction to theatre directing / Christopher Innes, Maria Shevtsova. by Innes, Christopher, 1941-, Shevtsova, Maria

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 3 Directors of theatricalityVsevolod Meyerhold: commedia dell'arte to biomechanics; Theatricality, stylization and the grotesque; The director as engineer: constructivism and biomechanics; Aleksandr Tairov: aestheticized theatricalization; Yevgeny Vakhtangov: 'festivity' and spectacle; Revisiting Meyerhold: Valery Fokin; The politics of theatricality: Ariane Mnouchkine; 'Masters'; Theatricality, metaphor and the 'East'; Directing in a collectivity of equals; Frank Castorf and Thomas Ostermeier: theatricality and violence; Eastern European directors: theatricality as resistance…”
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Staging the Ottoman Turk : British drama, 1656-1792 / Esin Akalin. by Akalin, Esin

Table of Contents: “…New Beginnings -- 4.2. Commedia dell'Arte Scenarios (1611); 4.3. Le bourgeois gentilhomme (1670); 4.4. …”
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Nuevos itinerarios e investigaciones en la literatura y cultura italiana / Daniele Cerrato (edición e introducción).

Table of Contents: “…ESTUDIOS LITERARIOS -- LA TRANSMISIÓN DEL TOPOS DE LA FORTUNA A TRAVÉS DE DANTE -- UNO SCRITTO MISOGINO INEDITO DI FINE CINQUECENTO: "LA VERA NARRATIONE DELLE OPERATIONI DELLE DONNE" -- MARGARITA CANTELMO EN LAS OBRAS DE GIAN GIORGIO TRISSINO Y MARIO EQUICOLA -- UNA VENEZIA ROMENA: LA COSTRUZIONE DI UN PAESAGGIO LETTERARIO DA PIETRO BURATTI A VASILE ALECSANDRI -- LA COMMEDIA DELL' ARTE: TEATRO MIGRANTE, ESPECTÁCULO E INTERCULTURALIDAD EN EUROPA Y ESPAÑA -- GIULIO CESARE CROCE Y LA COMPAÑÍA TEATRAL AMBULANTE DE PIETRO SICILIAN -- EROS Y THANATOS EN LA NARRATIVA DE ERCOLE PATTI -- UNGARETTI CRITICO E MEDIATORE E IL CONCETTO DI CANONE LETTERARIO -- IL CANONE FEMMINILE: LA RICEZIONE ANTOLOGICA DELLE OPERE DI ELSA MORANTE NEGLI ULTIMI DECENNI; ANALISI E SPUNTI DI CONFRONTO -- ALERAMO E CAMPANA. …”
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Le médecin volant / Molière. by Molière, 1622-1673

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