Slapstick and comic performance : comedy and pain / Louise Peacock. by Peacock, Louise

Rococo. Channel Four (Great Britain).

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The Tempest : a critical reader / edited by Alden T. Vaughan and Virginia Mason Vaughan.

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Our dramatic heritage / edited by Philip G. Hill.

Stages of evil : occultism in Western theater and drama / Robert Lima. by Lima, Robert

Table of Contents: “…The masks of Harlequin : daemonic antecedents of the Commedia Dell'Arte character --…”

Buchkultur und Wissensvermittlung in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit / herausgegeben von Andreas Gardt, Mireille Schnyder und Jürgen Wolf ; unter Mitarbeit von Susanne Schul.

Table of Contents: “…Eine neue Quelle zum europäischen Kulturtransfer in der Hofgesellschaft und zur Rezeption der Commedia dell'arte in Deutschland /…”
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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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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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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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Androcles and the lion / adapted by Aurand Harris. by Harris, Aurand

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

The History of Theater / Classroom Video (Firm).

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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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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?…”

Le médecin volant / Molière. by Molière, 1622-1673

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