Author : Eric Bentley
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Page : pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
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Category : English drama
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The Classic Theatre
Author : Classic Theatre ...
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Page : pages
File Size : 15,40 MB
Release : 1958
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The Classic Theatre
Author : Eric Bentley
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 25,5 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780385093859
"The classical view, said Gilbert Murray, is "the view of a man whose training and tastes lead him to regard literature as one, and the great Greek and Roman writers as central forces in it." Now, though justice may have been done to Greek and Roman drama itself, many of us have only the haziest notion how the tradition continued. In performance it is possible that there was an unbroken tradition from ancient days to the commedia dell'arte in the sixteenth century. The commedia in turn laid the basis for modern comedy. Yet the dramas enacted by the Italian comedians remain unknown because they survived only in unreadable scenarios. For the present volume Leon Katz has made a conjectural reconstruction of the complete dialogue of one such scenario. While the players maintained the classical tradition before a popular audience, the writers revived Roman comedy for a courtly audience. Machiavelli's Mandrake is the crowning achievement of the revival. There was no Chinese wall between the popular and courtly traditions. Such a writer as Beolco belongs to both, and later the mingling of elements will be a matter of controversy. The greatest of the feuds was between Goldoni and Gozzi in the eighteenth century. The paradox is that, in retrospect, Gozzi, who championed the commedia, seems the more "literary" and "academic," while Goldoni, the supposed reformer, if not abolisher, of the commedia, can plausibly be presented by modern scholars as its restorer... The question: What is Theatre? arises at this point, and the best purpose this collection can serve is to make the reader ask such elemental questions. As in the engravings of Callot, we find in these texts the essence of dramatic art." --
The Classic Theatre: Six Italian plays
Author : Eric Bentley
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Page : pages
File Size : 41,75 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Drama
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The classic theatre. Vol. 1: Six Italian plays
Author : Eric Bentley
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Page : pages
File Size : 23,13 MB
Release : 1958
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The Classic Theatre - Volume I - Six Italian Plays
Author : Eric Bentley
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Page : pages
File Size : 24,88 MB
Release : 1958
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Six Easy Italian Plays
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Page : 256 pages
File Size : 31,71 MB
Release : 1930
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Six Easy Italian Plays
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,89 MB
Release : 1930
Category : Italian farces
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Six Characters in Search of an Author
Author : Luigi Pirandello
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Page : 110 pages
File Size : 21,79 MB
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9782382745540
Masterpieces of the Modern Italian Theatre
Author : Robert Willoughby Corrigan
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Page : 368 pages
File Size : 19,6 MB
Release : 1967
Category : English drama
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