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Article: The Art of Commedia: A Study in the Commedia dell'arte 1560-1620 with Special Reference to the Visual Records.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
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M. A. Katritzky. The Art of Commedia: A Study in the Commedia dell'arte 1560-1620 with Special Reference to the Visual Records.
Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. 626 pp. index. illus. bibl. $234. ISBN: 90-420-1798-8.
Using hundreds of visual images (many first identified by the author), new documentary sources, and an extensive and deftly-employed bibliography, M. A. Katritzky has written a history of the commedia dell'arte that demonstrates its reach to have been far broader than earlier believed and its dynamic to have been more creative and innovative. Most of the images cited ...