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Article: Pierrot in Petrograd: The Commedia dell'Arte/Balagan in Twentieth-Century Russian Theater and Drama.
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- December 1, 1995
- Author:
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This provocative book offers an original approach to Russian modernist theatre by examining its incorporation of the characters and performance style of the commedia dell'arte, the Italian mask theatre whose origins can be traced back to the sixteenth century. The clever title provides a good vantage point into the book. Pierrot refers to one of the best known figures of the commedia dell'arte, the tragic/comic character who first came to life as Pedrolino. That he came to Petrograd gives some sense of the temporal limits of this study. The author argues that Russians' fascination with the commedia dell'arte was a unique phenomenon of the late Imperial and early Soviet ...
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