Routledge Companion to Commedia dell’Arte

Title: Routledge Companion to Commedia dell'Arte
Author: Chaffee, Judith (Boston University)
Price: $58.99

From Commedia dellArte came archetypal characters that are still with us today, such as Harlequin and Pantalone, and the rediscovered craft of writing comic dramas and masked theatre. From it came the forces that helped create and influence Opera, Ballet, Pantomime, Shakespeare, Moliere, Lopes de Vega, Goldoni, Meyerhold, and even the glove puppet, Mr Punch.

The Routledge Companion to Commedia dellArte is a wide-ranging volume written by over 50 experts that traces the history, characteristics, and development of this fascinating yet elusive theatre form. In synthesising the elements of Commedia, this book introduces the history of the Sartori mask studio; presents a comparison between Gozzi and Goldonis complicated and adversarial approaches to theatre; invites discussions on Commedias relevance to Shakespeare, and illuminates re-interpretations of Commedia in modern times.

The authors are drawn from actors, mask-makers, pedagogues, directors, trainers, and academics, all of whom add unique insights into this fundamental pillar of western theatre. Notable contributions include:
* Donato Sartori on the twentieth century Sartori mask
* Rob Henke on the Form and Freedom in Commedia Improvisation
* Anna Cottis on Carlo Boso
* Didi Hopkins on One Man, Two Guvnors
* Kenneth Richards on acting companies
* Antonio Fava on Commedia dellArte
* Joan Schirle on Carlo Mazzone-Clementi and women in Commedia
* M. A. Katritzky on Commedia Iconography.


CONTENTS
Dedication
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Foreward
Introduction

PART I: The Defining Features
1. The Pre-eminence of the Actor in Renaissance Context: Subverting the Social Order - Scott McGehee (US, IT)

The Scenarios
2. Form and Freedom: Between Scenario and Stage - Robert Henke (US)
3. Parallel Processing: Two Playwrights, Scala and Shakespeare - Tim Fitzpatrick (AUS)

The Troupes
4. The Commedia dellarte Acting Companies - Kenneth Richards (US)

The Stock Characters
5. You Must have Heard of Harlequin - Michele Bottini (IT)
6. Pantalone and The Doctor: The Old Men of Commedia - Peter Jordan (HK)
7. The Young Lovers - Richard Stockton Rand (US)
8. Interpreting the Capitanos Multiple Mask-Shapes - Mace Perlman (US)
9. Le Servette in Commedia dellArte - Julie Goell (US)
10. Carnival, Comedy and the Commedia: A Case Study of the Mask of Scaramouche - Stephen J.Knapper UK)
11. Official Recognition of Pulcinella - Antonio Fava (IT)
12. The Many Faces of Brighella: The Knave We Love to Hate - Artemis Preeshi (US)

The Masks
13. A Mask-makers Journey - Stefano Perocco di Meduna (IT)
14. Mask Performance for a Contemporary Commedia dellArte - Carlos Garcia Estvez (ES)
15. New Roles for The Mask in Twentieth Century Theatre - Donato Sartori (IT)

Language
16. Grommelot - John Rudlin (UK/FR)

Lazzi
17. Lazzi Mel Gordon (US)
18. Principles of Comedy for Commedia dellArte - Brian Foley (US)
19. Slapstick and Comic Violence in Commedia dellArte - Louise Peacock (UK)

PART 2: Historical Contexts: What we Know from Whom, About What, and Why it Matters
20. Aristocratic Archaeology: Greco-Roman Roots - Paul Monaghan (CA)
21. The Rise of Commedia dellArte in Italy: a Historical Perspective - Kate Meehan (US)
22. The Coming Together - Olly Crick (UK)
23. The Great Ruzante. - Linda J. Carroll (US)
24. Staging and Staging Practices in Early Commedia dellArte - Franklin Hildy and Matthew Wilson (US)
25. Commedia dellArte and the Spanish Golden Age Theatre - Nancy DAntuono (US)
26. Celestial Sirens of the Commedia dellArte Stage - Anne MacNeil (US)
27. Incidental music in Commedia dellArte Performances - Thomas Heck (US)
28. Meetings on Naxos: Opera and Commedia dellArte - Roger Savage (UK)
29. Classical Ballet and Commedia dellArte: Influences. - Barry Grantham (UK)
30. Images of the Commedia dellArte - M .A.Katritzky (UK)
31. The Old Mans Spectacles: Shakespeare and Commedia - Andy Grewar (SA)
32. Shakespeares Clown/Zanni Connection: Hybridizing Commedias Zanni - Sara Romersberger (US)
33. Writing for the Elite: Moliere, Marivaux, and Beaumarchais - Elizabeth Goldsmith (US)
34. Goldoni and Gozzi: Reformers with Separate Agendas - Michael Griffin (CA)
35. Commedia dellArte as Grotesque Dance - Domenico Pietropaolo (CA)
36. The Myth of Pierrot - Mark Evans (UK)
37. Speechless Spectacles: Commedia Pantomime in France England, and the Americas during the 18th & 19th Centuries - Matthew Wilson (US)
38. From Meyerhold to Eisenstein: Commedia dellArte in Russia - J. Douglas Clayton (CA)
39. Georgia Strehlers Arte: A Commedia Master Directs Shakespeare - Mace Perlman (US)
40. Giovanni Poli: The Missing Link - Guilia Filacanapa (IT/FR)
41. Arlecchino Appleseeed: Or How Carlo Mazzone-Clementi Brought Commedia to the New World - Joan Schirle (US)

PART 3: Alive and Well and Living In..
42. Despite Everything, Commedia dellArte is Alive in Italy. Long Live Commedia! - Fabio Mangolini (IT)
43. Dario Fo and the Commedia DellArte - Antonio Scuderi (US)
44. Carlo Boso: Fear and Laughter in Popular Theatre - Anna Cottis (UK/FR)
45. Antonio Fava - John Rudlin (UK)
46. Happy Bedfellows: Commedia dellArte, Politics, and the San Francisco Mime Troupe - Claudia Orenstein (US)
47. Commedia in Gloucestershire: Rural Contexts - Olly Crick (UK)
48. I Sebastiani : Commedia Geeks - Judith Chaffee (US)
49. Women on Stage and in the Wings - Joan Schirle (US)
50. Commedia Counterparts: Middle Eastern and Asian Connections - Kathy Foley (US)
51. Commedia for Contempoary Theatre Makers - Davis Robinson (US)
52. Roots and Routes: One Man, Two Guvnors - Didi Hopkins (UK)
53. Commedia in a New World Context: The Comedy and Poetry of Survival - Katrien van Beurden (NL)

PART 4: Commedia dellArte Bibliography
54. Commedia dellArte Essential Bibliography

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication date: 06/02/2017
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781138224995
Publishing status: AU In Distributor In BN