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Scripts and Scenarios: The Performance of Comedy in Renaissance Italy
Scripts and Scenarios The Performance of Comedy in Renaissance Italy Author:Richard Andrews This book examines the scripted stage comedies of the Italian Renaissance, tracing their transition from closed courtly audiences to a wider public. It concentrates on the performing values of their scripts rather than their literary qualities, in order to demonstrate their links with improvised commedia dell'arte, and thus explores in a new way... more » a crucial phase in the development of European theater. It will be of interest to scholars and students in both theater history and Italian studies.« less