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Article: Performance and Literature in the Commedia dell'Arte.(Book Review)
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- January 1, 2004
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Performance and Literature in the Commedia dell'Arte By Robert Henke Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002
Robert Henke's Performance and Literature in the Commedia dell'Arte recreates the activities of itinerant, professional Italian acting groups between 1545 and 1625. These companies plied their art in all available spaces, from piazzas and courts to theaters; they allowed women onstage for the first time, and developed highly successful types that were widely imitated for the next two hundred years.
The book is divided into eleven chapters: the first three introduce the topic and concentrate on how to capture the orality and improvisation that ...