The Commedia Dell'Arte : : A Study in Italian Popular Comedy / / Winifred Smith.

Brings together some of the widely scattered facts and theories about the improvised plays in popular Italian comedy.

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1912]
©1912
Year of Publication:1912
Language:English
Series:Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Table of Contents
  • I. Definition of the Commedia dell'arte
  • II. Origin of the Commedia dell'arte: I. The Mountbanks
  • III. Origin of the Commedia dell'arte, Continued: II. The Academies
  • IV. Some Typical Scenarios
  • V. The Commedia dell'arte in Foreign Countries, 16th and 17th Centuries: France, Germany and Austria, Spain
  • VI. The Commedia dell'arte in Elizabethan and Jacobean England
  • VII. The Transformation of the Commedia dell'arte
  • Appendix A: Scenarios
  • Appendix B: Relations Between English and Italian Drama in the 16th, 17th and 18th
  • Bibliography
  • Index