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9780810841161

The Commedia dell'Arte in Naples A Bilingual Edition of the 176 Casamarciano Scenarios

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  • ISBN13:

    9780810841161

  • ISBN10:

    0810841169

  • Edition: Bilingual
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-11-08
  • Publisher: Scarecrow Press
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $226.00

Summary

The Italian comedy (Commedia dell'arte), an improvised performance art that flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries, vanished leaving very few traces. What remain, besides some intriguing descriptions, are about a dozen manuscript collections of plot outlines, or scenarios, often written in dialect, which the Italian professional actors must have used to guide them through each drama, from scene to scene and act to act. Only a few such collections have ever been published in Italian, far fewer still in English translation. The present volumes remedy this situation by providing bilingual access to the largest known collection of scenarios: the Casamarciano manuscripts of Naples.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments by the Editors xi
Foreword xiii
Nancy d'Antuono
Facsimiles
``Policinella pazzo per forza'' (i/91) xvi
``Sette infanti del Ara'' (ii/57) xxi
Introduction to the English Edition and Some Translation Points
1(4)
Thomas F. Heck
Table of Concordances
5(18)
Thomas F. Heck
English Summaries of the Introductory Chapters to the Italian Edition
Abstracts of Francesco Cotticelli's Preliminary Essays in Volume 2
12(1)
Anne Goodrich Heck
Capitolo Primo = Chapter One Suggestions for Reading and Interpreting the Casamarciano Scenarios (cf. Vol. 2, p. 3)
13(6)
Chapter Secondo = Chapter Two Annibale Sersale and the Theatrical climate in Naples of His Day (cf. Vol. 2, p. 14)
19(2)
Philological Description and Note Regarding the Text (cf. Vol. 2, p. 21 and 22)
21(1)
Bibliography (cf. Vol. 2, p. 37)
21(2)
The Scenarios of Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, ms. XI.AA.41 (Vol. i)
23(266)
The Scenarios of Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, ms. XI.AA.40 (Vol. ii)
289(274)
Indexes†
Index of English Titles
553(2)
Index of Characters
555(8)
About the Editors 563
Ringraziamenti xi
Premessa xiii
Nancy d'Antuono
Introduzione 1(2)
Proposte per una lettura e interpretazione degli scenari Casamarciano
Gli scenari nel sistema testuale della Commedia dell'Arte
3(3)
La raccolta Casamarciano tra forme del testo e idea dello spettacolo
6(3)
Il dramma delle parole: varianti e formularita nei canovacci
9(2)
La tentazione del testo. Un'ipotesi sulla raccolta
11(3)
Annibale Sersale e le scene del suo tempo a Napoli
14(24)
Nota al testo
Descrizione dei codici
22(1)
Nota al testo
23(15)
Note ai capitoli introduttivi
27(11)
Bibliografia 38(9)
Gli scenari del manoscritto Napoli, Biblioteca Nazionale, XI.AA.41 (vol.i) 47(252)
Note agli scenari del primo volume manoscritto
288(11)
Gli scenari del manoscritto Napoli, Biblioteca Nazionale, XI.AA.40 (vol.ii) 299(258)
Note agli scenari del secondo volume manoscritto
546(11)
Indice dei titoli 557(2)
Indice dei personaggi 559(7)
Indice dei nomi 566

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