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. …”

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. …”

Pierrot : a Critical History of a Mask. by Storey, Robert F., 1945-

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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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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 taming of the shrew / produced by Ken Campbell ; directed by William Ball and Kirk Browning.

Pulcinella / choreography, Richard Alston ; produced and directed by Bob Lockyer ; BBC.

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Pablo Picasso at Pompeii.

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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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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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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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Style for actors : a handbook for moving beyond realism / Robert Barton. by Barton, Robert, 1945-

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The Body in the Mirror : Shapes of History in Italian Cinema. by Dalle Vacche, Angela

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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. …”

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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Don Pasquale : opera buffa in three acts / by Gaetano Donizetti ; libretto by Giovanni Ruffini and Gaetano Donizetti. by Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848

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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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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. …”

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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Movement for actors / edited by Nicole Potter.

Table of Contents: “…Discovering ensemble and impulse through improvisation / Paul Urcioli -- Bringing the past into the present : period dance on the stage and in the curriculum / Nira Pullin -- Shakespeare honors the three centers of the body / Susan Dibble -- Some rehearsal notes for Moliáere and Restoration comedy style / Rod McLucas -- The Williamson physical technique : the physical process of acting / Lloyd Williamson -- An introduction to Margolis method[trademark sign] : a dynamic physical approach to actor training / Kari Margolis.…”