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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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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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The Art of Commedia: A Study in the 'Commedia dell'arte', 1560-1620, with Special Reference to the Visual Records. By M. A. KATRITZKY. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 2006. 625 pp., incl. 340 plates. 180 [euro]. ISBN 978-90-420-1798-6.
Commedia dell'arte studies, in the past three decades, have been moving in Revisionist directions. In particular, Italian theatre historians have mounted a sustained campaign to divorce perceptions of the genre from images formed by nineteenth-century French scholars, starting with Maurice Sand: too many of these relied uncritically on inaccurate legends which the acting profession had created for itself by the eighteenth century. ...