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Performance and Literature in the Commedia Dell'Arte

Performance and Literature in the Commedia Dell'Arte PDF Author: Robert Henke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521643245
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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This book explores the commedia dell'arte: the Italian professional theatre in Shakespeare's time. The actors of this theatre usually did not perform from scripted drama but instead improvised their performances from a shared plot and thorough knowledge of individual character roles. Robert Henke closely analyzes hitherto unexamined commedia dell'arte texts in order to demonstrate how the spoken word and written literature were fruitfully combined in performance. Henke examines a number of primary sources including performance accounts, actors' contracts, and letters, among other documents.