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. …”

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

The History of Theater / Classroom Video (Firm).

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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. …”

Movement for actors / edited by Nicole Potter.

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

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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. …”

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

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

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

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Pablo Picasso at Pompeii.

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