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A Bibliography on theater. This bibliography covers specifically Commedia dell'arte (Renaissance Italian popular theatre)

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Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
From: csjlm at news.cts.eiu.edu (Jeri Matteson-Hughes)
Subject: Re: Medieval theatre sources
Summary: commedia dell'arte
Organization: Eastern Illinois University
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 14:19:04 GMT

The Commedia dell'arte (Renaissance+ Italian popular theatre) is a
specialty of mine.  I've been performing/studying this technique for
some 21 years and lecturing on it in the SCA for over 12. 

Here is a _select_ bibliography handout that I use with my lectures.  It's
a perennial work-in-progress; I'm always adding to it, although this copy
hasn't been added to since last June.  

The Dover text that Tangwystl refers to is by P. L. Ducharte.  I _highly_
recommend the K. and L. Richards text - a monumental work of recent
research in the genre.

Myrra  

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A Select Bibliography on the _Commedia dell'arte_. 
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Ambrose, G. B.  "Real acting,"  _The Mask_.  9 (1923) 12-14.
Beumont, Cyril W.  _The History of Harlequin_.  New York :
      Benjamin Blom, 1967.
Bently, Eric, ed.  _The Classic Theater: Six Italian Plays_. 
      (v.1)  New York : Doubleday and Co., 1958.
"The Betrayed: A Scenario..." (n. trans.)  _The Mask.  7 (July
      1911) : 53-57.
Boughner, Daniel C.  _The Braggart in Renaissance Comedy_. 
      Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1954.
Broadbent, R. J.  _A History of Pantomime_.  New York : Benjamin
      Blom, 1964.
Brubaker, David.  _Court and Commedia: The Italian Renaissance
      Stage_.  New York : Richards Rosen Press, 1975.
Bruford, Rose.  _Teaching Mime_.  London : Methuen & Co. Ltd.,
      1958.
Cole, David.  "The Visual Script : Theory and Techniques."  _The
      Drama Review_ (T72).  20 (December 1976) : 27-50.
Cole, Toby and Chinoy, Helen Krich.  _Actors on Acting: The
      theories, technique, and practices of the Great Actors of
      All Time as told in their own words_.  New York : Crown
      Publishers, 1970.
Craige, Gorden.  "The Characters of the _Commedia dell'arte_." 
      _The Mask_.  4 (January 1912) : 199-202.
______________.  "The _Commedia dell'arte_ ascending."  _The
      Mask_.  5 (October 1912) : 104-108.
Croce, Bennedetto.  "_Commedia dell'arte_."  _Theatre Arts_, 17
      (December 1933) : 929-939.
DaLuiso, Florence S., ed.  "_La Commedia dell'arte_ : An
      Exhibition."  Exhibition catalog of four essays and
      bibliography with preface by J. Daniel Vann, III - November
      9-30, 1980, Lockwood Memorial Library.  Buffalo : State
      University of New York, 1980.
Davis, Jessica Milner.  _Farce: The Critical Idiom_, v. 39, John
      D. Jump, ed.  London : Methuen & Co., 1978.
Ducharte, Pierre Louis.  _The Italian Comedy: The Improvisations,
      Scenarios, lives, Attributes, Portraits and Masks of the
      Illustrious Characters of the Commedia dell'arte_.  New York
      : Dover Publications, 1966.
Faherty, Teresa J.  "Othello dell'Arte : The Presence of
      _Commedia_ in Shakespeare's Tragedy."  _Theatre Journal_. 
      43 (May 1991) : 179-194.
"The Four Lunatics: A Scenario..."  trans. by D. Nevile Lees. 
      _The Mask_.  4 (October 1911) : 116-121.
Garfein, Herschel ad Gordon, Mel.  "The Adriani _Lazzi_ of the
      _Commedia dell'Arte_."  _The Drama Review_ (T77).  22 (March
      1978) : 3-12.
Gherardi, Evaristo.  "The introduction to La Theatre Italian." 
      trans. by D. Nevile Lees.  _The Mask_.  3 (April 1911) :
      164-171.
Gordon, Mel.  _Lazzi: The Comic Routines of the Commedia
      dell'Arte_.  New York : Performing Arts Journal
      Publications, 1983.
Green, Martin and Swan, John.  _The Triumph of Perriot: The
      Commedia dell'Arte and the Modern Imagination_.  New York :
      Macmillan Publishing Co., 1986.
Herrick, Marvin T.  _Comic Theory in the Sixteenth Century:
      Illinois Studies in Language and Literature_, v. 34, no.
      1-2, H. F. Fletcher, H. E. Cunningham, H. Rehder, eds. 
      Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1950.
_________________.  _Italian Comedy in the Renaissance_.
      Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1960.
Hodgson, John and Richards, Ernst.  _Improvisation_.  London :
      Eyre Methuen Ltd., 1974.
Johnstone, Keith.  _Impro: Improvisation for the Theatre_.  New
      York : Theatre Arts Books, 1979.
Katritzky, M. A.  "How did the _Commedia dell'arte_ cross the
      Alps to Bavaria?"  _Theatre Research International_.  16
      (Autumn 1991) : 201-215.
Kennard, Joseph Spenser.  _The Italian Theatre_.  New York :
      Benjamin Blom, 1964.
Knott, Jan.  "The Return of Harlequin."  _Theatre Notebook_.  New
      York : Doubleday & Co., 1968.
Lea, K. M.  _Italian Popular Comedy: A study in the Commedia
      dell'arte, 1560-1620, with special reference to the English
      stage_.  New York : Russell and Russell, 1962.
Levi, Cesare.  "How Doctors were satirized in the Ancient
      Theatre."  _The Mask_.  11 (April 1925) : 71-19.
____________.  "Signor Brighelle."  _The Mask_.  5 (July 1912) :
      20-27. 
McGill, Kathleen.  "Improvisatory Competence and the Cueing of
      Performance : The Case of the _Commedia dell'Arte_."  _Text
      and Performance Quarterly_. 10 (April 1990) : 111-122.
________________.  "Women and Performance : The Development of
      Improvisation by the Sixteenth-Century _Commedia
      dell'Arte_."  _Theatre Journal_.  43 (March 1991) : 59-69.
Madden, David.  _Harlequin's Stick, Charlie's Cane_.  Bowling
      Green : Bowling Green Popular Press, 1975.
Mantzuis, Karl.  _A History of Theatrical Art: The Middle Ages
      and the Renaissance (v.2)_.  Gloucester, Mass. : Peter
      Smith, 1970.
Mazzone-Clementi. Carlo.  "Commedia and the Actor." _The Drama 
      Review_ (T61). 18 (March 1974) : 59-64.
McDowell, John H.  "Some Pictorial Aspects of Early _Commedia
      dell'arte Acting_."  _Studies in Philology_. 39 (January
      1942) : 47-64.
Meyerhold, Vsevolod.  "The Fairground Booth."  _Meyerhold on
      Theatre_.  New York : Hill and Wang, 1969.  Edward Braun,
      ed.  Also published as "Farce" in Robert Corrigan, ed. 
      _Theatre in the Twentieth Century_.  New York : Grove Press,
      1963. 
Nicoll, Alardyce.  _Masks, Mimes and Miracles_.  New York :
      Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1931.
________________.  _The World of Harlequin_.  Cambridge :
      Cambridge University Press, 1963.
Niklaus, Thelma.  _Harlequin, or the Rise and Fall of a Bergamask
      Rogue_.  New York : George Braziller, 1956.
Oreglia, Giacomo.  _The Commedia dell'arte_, trans. by Lovett F.
      Edwards.  New York : Hill and Wang, 1968.
Peabody, Ruth E.  _Commedia Works_.  Washington, D.C. : Library
      of Congress, 1984.
Perrucci, Andrea.  "Directions as to the preparation of a
      performance from a scenario, from _Arte Rappresentativa ed
      al`Improviso'_, 1699."  _The Mask.  4 (October 1911) :
      113-115.
Pietropaolo, Domenico, ed.  _The Science of Buffoonery : Theory
      and History of the Commedia dell'Arte_.  University of
      Toronto Italian Studies, v. 3.  Ottawa : Dovehouse Editions,
      1989.
Richards, Kenneth and Richards, Laura.  _The Commedia dell'Arte:
      A Documentary History_.  Cambridge : Basil Blackwell Inc.,
      1990.
"The Roguish Tricks of Coviello: A Scenario..." trans. by Cesare
      Levi.  _The Mask_.  6 (April 1911) : 353-356.
Rolfe, Bari.  _Commedia dell`arte: A Scene Study Book_.  Oakland,
      Calif. : Personabooks, 1977.
__________.  _Farces, Italian Style_.  Oakland, Calif. :
      Personabooks, 1978.
Royce, Anya Peterson.  "Who was Argentina?  Player and role in
      seventeenth-century _commedia dell'arte_."  _Theatre
      Survey_.  30 (May-November 1989) : 45-57.
Sand, Maurice.  _The History of the Harlequinade_.  2v. 1915
      reprint.  New York : Benjamin Blom, 1968.
Scala, Flaminio.  _Scenarios of the Commedia dell'arte: Flaminio
      Scala's Il Teatro delle favole rappresentative_, trans. by
      Henry F. Salerno.  New York : New York University Press,
      1967.
Scherillo, Michele.  "Capitan Fracassa." _The Mask_.  3 (April
      1911) : 149-160.
_________________.  "The _Commedia dell'arte_."  _The Mask_.  3
      (April 1911) : 108-126.
_________________.  "The Genealogy of Pulcinella."  _The Mask_. 
      3 (July 1910) : 22-29.
_________________.  "The Scenarios of Della Porta."  _The Mask_. 
      6 (July 1913) : 33-48.
Scott, Virginia.  _The Commedia dell'Arte in Paris, 1644-1697_. 
      Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1990.
Schricky, W.  "_Commedia dell'arte_ players in Antwerp in 1576:
      Drusiano and Tristano Martinelli."  _Theatre Research
      International_.  1 (Fall 1976) : 79-86.
Smith, Winifred.  _The Commedia dell'arte_.  New York : Benjamin
      Blom, 1964.
______________.  "A Comic Version of Romeo and Juliette." 
      _Modern Philology_.  7 (October 1909) : 217-220.
______________.  "Italian and Elizabethan Comedy."  _Modern
      Philology_.  5 (April 1909) : 555-567.
______________.  _Italian Actors of the Renaissance_.  New York :
      Benjamin Blom, 1968.
Spolin, Viola.  _Improvisation for the Theatre: A Handbook of
      Teaching and Directing Techniques_  Evanston : Northwestern
      University Press, 1963.
Steele, Eugene.  "Shakespeare, Goldoni, and the Clown." 
      _Comparative Drama_.  11 (Fall 1977) : 209-226.
"The Three Princes of Salerno: A Scenario..."  trans. by D.
      Nevile Lees.  _The Mask_.  4 (April 1912) : 335-339.
Tonelli, Franco.  "Moliere's _Don Juan_ and the Space of the
     _Commedia dell'Arte_."  _Theatre Journal_.  37 (December
     1985) : 440-464.
     Greenwood Press, 1984.
Quinn, Michael L.  "The Comedy of Reference : The Semiotics of
      "Commedia Figures in Eighteenth-Century Venice."  _Theatre
      Journal_.  43 (March 1991) : 70-92.
Vince, Ronald W.  _Renaissance Theatre_.  Westport, Conn. :
      Greenwood Press, 1984.
-- 
Mistress Myrra de Blackwood
Jeri Matteson-Hughes: Eastern IL U: Charleston, IL: csjlm at ux1.cts.eiu.edu

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