Scripts and Scenarios: The Performance of Comedy in Renaissance Italy

by Richard Andrews

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The Italian Renaissance produced a new type of stage comedy, experimental and even revolutionary in its time, by copying and updating the dramatic formats of Plautus and Terence from ancient Rome. These scripted comedies, first written and performed for private audiences, ranged in tone from sober moralism to scurrilous farce, and influenced European dramatists from Shakespeare to Moli?re and Lope de Vega. This book gives an account of how the new...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521034159

ISBN13:9780521034159

Release Date:March 2007

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:316 Pages

Weight:1.02 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Arts, Music & Photography Drama Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Performing Arts

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