The Comic Mask in the Commedia Dell Arte: Actor Training, Improvisation, and the Poetics of Survival

The Comic Mask in the Commedia Dell Arte: Actor Training, Improvisation, and the Poetics of Survival Fava Antonio Wydawca: Northwestern University Press Data wydania: 2006 ISBN: 9780810123687 Liczba stron: 240 Format: 235 x 158 x 15 Rodzaj oprawy: Paperback / softback Opis produktu: Presents an aesthetic and methodological study of the traditional Italian theater form. This book describes what Commedia is, and what it should be. It offers philosophical and technical guidelines to performing the stock characters of Commedia , observing its structure, extracting its poetics, exploring its themes, and using the mask.