[PDF] Plays Of The Italian Theatre eBook

Author : Isaac Goldberg
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 14,12 MB
Release : 2015-07-06
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ISBN : 9781330788004

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Excerpt from Plays of the Italian Theatre He was born in Catania, and began his career as a writer of conventional novels redolent of the French feuilletons. Yet in a deeper sense the work of Verga is a psychological unity, and close study of the early books shows the young Verga to be father to the older. The novel that caps his creations, I Malavoglia, was intended to be the first of a trilogy devoted to a study of what he named the vanquished (i cintz') but after the second of the series, Don mastro-gesualdo, he appears to have given up the project, unless, as a French critic has suggested, we are to take his novel Dal Tuo al Mio (later made by him into a play) as the closing volume. There seems, in Verga's work, to be a certain parallel to the labors of that Thomas Hardy whose life, too, runs parallel to the great Italian's. In both the same underlying pessimism, in both the same softening pity. An Italian critic, Carlo Linati, has also suggested Verga's affinity to Synge, for his deep insight into the lives of the humble fishermen. By these tokens we are in the presence of an enduring figure whose influence among the more serious of the newer novelists is strong and salutary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Joseph Farrell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 36,73 MB
Release : 2006-11-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521802652

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A history of Italian theatre from its origins to the the time of this book's publication in 2006. The text discusses the impact of all the elements and figures integral to the collaborative process of theatre-making. The distinctive nature of Italian theatre is expressed in the individual chapters by highly regarded international scholars.

Author : Luigi Pirandello
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 35,18 MB
Release : 2016-05-20
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ISBN : 9781357757540

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Isaac Goldberg
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,60 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
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ISBN : 9781018993140

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Lawrence Estavan
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 43,53 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0893704644

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A history of the Italian-American operatic, dramatic, and comedic productions presented in the San Francisco Bay area through the Depression Era, with reminiscences of the leading players and impresarios of the time, reworked and re-edited by Mary A. Burgess from the Federal Writers Project production of 1939.

Author : Isaac Goldberg, Ed. PhD
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 25,69 MB
Release : 2016-05-02
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ISBN : 9781355145486

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Daniela Cavallaro
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,89 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Feminist drama
ISBN : 9781841505558

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"Between 1930 and 1960, popular female dramatists Paola Riccora, Anna Bonacci, Clotilde Masci and Gici Ganzini Granata set the stage for a new generation of Italian women playwrights and the development of feminist theatre. Now largely forgotten, the lives and works of these dramatists are reintroduced into the scholarly conversation in Italian women's theatre, 1930-1960. Following a general introduction, the book presents a selection of dramatic works, rounded out by commentary, performance histories, critical analyses, and biographical information."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Giavanni Verga
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,56 MB
Release : 2014-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781494949457

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From The Bookseller and Stationer, Volume 56: FIVE Italian plays, showing the work of dramatists who wrote between the years 1860 and 1900. Each play is adapted for production in the small theatre, each is typically Italian, and each is a beautifully balanced unit. There is a tragedy of love, a comedy of childhood embedded in yet another and greater tragedy, while in each play we get a sense of dramatic power that gives to each distinction. * * * * An excerpt from the Introduction: AMONG the features that make the study of Italian drama so interesting are the diversity of the types, the numerous differences that divide the critics and the more or less diffuse state in which the institution still finds itself. We are prepared for the cry of decadence that has filled half of the nineteenth century and not a little of the twentieth; to be a dramatic critic is almost synonymous, in all tongues, with bewailing the low state into which the drama has fallen. In Italy the matter has gone much farther; there have not been lacking scholars who deny the existence of a genuinely national stage, and since Tullio Fornioni, in 1885, started the ball a-rolling it has been given powerful shoves by such writers as Mario Pilo, Salvatore Barzilai and V. Morello. Only this year Signor Guido Ruberti, in his closely packed two-volume book upon "Il Teatro Contemporaneo in Europa," renews the discussion and in his section upon the realistic Italian drama (1,211) declares bluntly, "The truth is that Italy has never had a truly national theatre." He goes on to state, in the ensuing commentary, that there is, in the very nature of the Italian people, a certain quality that is anti-dramatic in effect; the spiritual and material difficulties experienced by the nation while other countries were conquering a greater or less degree of liberty caused it to turn in upon itself, accustoming it perforce to a "singular mental habit of adaptation and conciliation; a remarkable equilibrium that succeeds in fusing within itself the most diverse tendencies, harmonizing them in a supreme ideal which is neither skepticism nor austere faith, neither absolute indifferentism nor unreflecting passion, yet feeds upon and communicates all these." The Italian conscience, moreover, unlike the Anglo-Saxon and the Slav, finds its great problems settled in advance by its creed, thus removing, or at least greatly modifying, one of the mainsprings of dramatic action. In the powerful scenes of passionate crime the critic sees but added proof of the primitiveness of his people; upon them, he tells us, the currents of modern thought make little impression. For much of the delay in the achieving of a national theatre the influence of France is blamed, the same France in whom Spanish-American critics fear a similar denationalizing influence and who, according to Brazilian writers, is Gallicizing the immense Portuguese-speaking republic to our south. Again, the presence of so many well defined regions, each with its own psychology, its own pride, its own determination to preserve its spiritual autonomy, acts as a hindrance to the formation of a distinctly recognizable national drama. The Italian dialect stage is an important institution; Rome, Sicily, Milan, Bologna, Venice, Naples — these are, from the dramatic standpoint, fairly nations within a nation, and even the better known Italian dramatists are proud to write for them. Of the writers represented in this collection, for example, Verga and Pirandello are intimately related to their native Sicily, as is Sabatino Lopez to his Tuscan birthplace.