Research Guides: Theatre Appreciation (43-101): European

Commedia dell-Arte

A Cultural History of Theatre by Jack Watson
(4 hour loan):This is good for:
- Theater and society
- Chapter 5 Visual Spectacle in the Italian Renaissance
- Social Ideas/Art Ideas (Theater and Society)
- Connections: (Influence on modern or contemporary theater)
- Pageantry in community festivals – coronation, inaugurals, Olympic game pageantry, Bowl game parades
Western theatre: Revolution and revival by Patti P. Gillespie
(4 hour loan) This is good for:
- Acting, performance, Theater and society
- Representative plays
- Chapter 11 Italian Renaissance ca. 1350- ca. 1600
- The Nature of the Revolution/Humanism/Political and Economic Shifts/Triumph of the Vernacular/The Religious Reformation and Counter Reformation/Printing (Theater and Society)
- Audiences
- Costuming
- Secular Popular Drama (commedia dell’arte)/Figure 11.12 – Major Character Types of the Commedia dell’arte During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Representative plays and playwrights)
- Figure 11.14 – Notable Commedia Dell’Arte Troupes of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries/Figure 11.15/ Renaissance Performers (Acting)
Theatre: a history of the art by Jerry V. Pickering
(4 hour loan) This is good for:
- Acting, performance, stage design, theater design, and technical innovations
- Theater and society
- Representative plays and playwrights
- Chapter 2 The Italian Renaissance
- The Renaissance World (Theater and Society)
- Commedia Dell’Arte (Representative plays, Representative Characters, Acting)
- Gelosi organized by Francesco Andreini/Uniti/Confidenti/Desiosi/Fideli (Representative Acting Troupes)
- Costumes
- Acting.(Acting)
Theatre Past and Present: an introduction by Milly S. Barranger
(4 hour loan) This is good for:
- Acting, performance, costumes, stage design, theater design and technical innovations
- Representative play, acting company or troupe, characters, scenarios
- Chapter 6 Commedia Dell’Arte and Renaissance Italy
- Gelosi Company (Representative Theatre Troupe)
- Dramatic Conventions – Scenarios and Character Types
- The Three Cuckolds (Representative Play)
- Flaminio Scala (Representative Playwright)
- Conditions of Performance
- Management of the Commedia Companies (Directing and Producing Performances)
- Visual Elements/Music and Dance (Acting)
- Staging: Portable and Fixed (Stage Design and Scene Design)
- Masks, Costumes, and Properties
- Commedia in Modern Performance (Influence on modern or contemporary theater)
History of the Theatre by Oscar G. Brockett with Franklin J. Hildy
(4 hour loan) This is good for:
- Acting, performance, stage design
- Chapter 7 Italian Theatre to 1700
- Representative plays, playwrights, actors and acting troupes (or companies)
- Representative Plays –The Fairies or the Tales of Mother Goose
- Representative Theatre Companies – Zan Ganassa, Gelosi, Confidenti, Accesi, Fideli
- Representative Company Leaders or Directors – Alberto Naselli of Zan Ganassa, Francesco Andreini of Gelosi, Flaminio Scala of Confidenti & Gelosi, Pier Maria Cecchini of Accesi
- Representative Actors – Francesco Andreini & Isabella Andreini of Gelosi, Flaminio Scala of Confidenti, Pier Maria Cecchini of Accesi, Giambattista Andreini & Virginia Andreini of Fideli, Roman Context/Roman Festivals/Other Entertainments (Theater and Society).
- Commedia Dell”Arte
- Representative Character Types/Capitano, Pantalone, Dottore, Scapino, Harlequin, Pulcinello

The Commedia Dell'arte by Winifred Smith
Call Number: 792.2 S66c
Publication Date: 1964
The Italian Comedy: the improvisation, scenarios, lives, attributes, portraits, and masks of the illustrious characters of the commedia dell-arte by Pierre-Louis Duchartre
Call Number: 792.2 D82i 1966
Publication Date: 1966
Italian Comedy in the Renaissance by Marvin T. Herrick
Call Number: 852.09 H56i
Publication Date: 1960
Commedia dell-arte [English] by Giacomo Oreglia
Call Number: 792.2 O66c
Publication Date: 1968
The history of the harlequinade by Maurice Sand
Call Number: 792.2 S21h 1968
Publication Date: 1968
Playing Commedia: a training guide to commedia techniques by Barry Grantham
"The Renaissance Theater in Italy" in Arts and Humanities Through the Eras, volume 4

THE RENAISSANCE THEATER IN ITALY
ISBN: 9780787656959

Commedia dell-Arte: Subjects

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Links to the full text of Scripts for Commedia dell' Arte Plays
Reading list for theatre majors

The Commedia dell'Arte: a study in Italian popular comedy by Winifred Smith
Volume 3

Book in Owens Library with Commedia dell'Arte plays:

Scripts and Scenarios: the performance of comedy in Renaissance Italy by Richard Andrews

Representative Plays and Playwrights:

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance

Renaissance Italy (1450-1550)

A Cultural History of Theatre by Jack Watson
(4 hour loan) This is good for:
- Acting, performance, stage design, theater design, and technical innovations
- Theater and society
- Influence on modern or contemporary theater
- Representative plays and playwrights
- Chapter 5 Visual Spectacle in the Italian Renaissance
- Social Ideas/Art Ideas (Theater and Society)
- Italian Renaissance Theatre/A Trip to the Renaissance Theatre – Location, Performers, Audience, Standards of Judgement (Acting, performance, stage design, theater design and technical innovations)
- Dramatic Literature – Niccolo Machiavelli – La Mandragola, Bernardo da Bibbiena – La Calandria (Representative plays and playwrights)
- Connections: (Influence on modern or contemporary theater)
- Theatre architecture horseshoe-shaped auditorium, proscenium arch, stage machinery and special effects that create illusion, surprise scene changes
- Intermezzi of renaissance are elements prevalent in grand Opera
- Commedia
- Pageantry in community festivals – coronation, inaugurals, Olympic game pageantry, Bowl game parades
Western theatre: Revolution and revival by Patti P. Gillespie
(4 hour loan) This is good for:
- Acting, performance, stage design, theater design, and technical innovations
- Theater and society
- Representative plays and playwrights
- Chapter 11 Italian Renaissance ca. 1350- ca. 1600
- The Nature of the Revolution/Humanism/Political and Economic Shifts/Triumph of the Vernacular/The Religious Reformation and CounterReformation/Printing (Theater and Society)
- Renaissance Theatre (Acting, performance, stage design, theater design and technical innovations)
- Audiences
- Scenic Conventions (Stage Desgin)
- Machinery and Special Effects/Ligthing (Technical Innovations)
- Theatre Buildings (Theatre Architecture and Design)
- Costuming
- Renaissance Drama/Erudite Drama (Commedia Erudita) – Torquato Tasso Aminta, Giovan Battista Guarini The Faithful Shepard/Barnardo da Bibiena La Calandria/Niccolo Machiavelli Mandragola/Ludovico Ariosto
- La Cassaria/Figure 11.10 – Notable Italian Comedies of the Renaissance/Figure 11.11 – Notable Italian Tragedies and Pastorals of the Renaissance/ Secular Popular Drama (commedia dell’arte) (Representative plays and playwrights)
- Renaissance Performers (Acting)
Theatre: a history of the art by Jerry V. Pickering
(4 hour loan) This is good for:
- Acting, performance, stage design, theater design, and technical innovations
- Theater and society
- Representative plays and playwrights
- Chapter 2 The Italian Renaissance
- The Renaissance World (Theater and Society)
- The Rise of the Secular Theatre/Humanist Theatre/Lodovico Ariosto/Bernardo da Bibiena La Calandria/Niccolo Machiavelli La Mandragola/Torquato Tasso Aminta/Commedia Dell’Arte/Intermezzi/Opera (Representative plays and playwrights)
- Theatre Architecture (Theatre Design)
- Sebastiano Serlio/Niccola Sabbatini/Giacomo Torelli (Theatre Architects, Scene Designers, Scene Painters)
- Staging and Scenic Practice (Stage Design, Scene Design)
- Costumes
- Acting
Period Style for the Theatre by Douglas A. Russell
(2 hour loan) This is good for:
- Theater design, costumes, acting, society and culture, representative playwrights and plays
- Chapter 7 Early and High Renaissance Style
- Art and Culture/Life and Cultural Ideals (Culture and Society)
- Ornament, Interiors, Furniture/The Theatre (Stage Design and Theater Design)
- Costume and Accessories
- Manners and Movement/Acting the Plays
- The Theatre (Theater Design and Stage Design)
- The Plays (Representative plays and Playwrights)
History of the Theatre by Oscar G. Brockett and Franklin J. Hildy
This is good for:
- Acting, performance, stage design, theater design and technical innovations
- Theater and society
- Chapter 7 Italian Theatre to 1700
- Renaissance Drama (Culture and Society).
- Development of new scenic practices
- Development of theatre architecture
- Machinery and special effects

"The Renaissance Theater in Italy" in Arts and Humanities Through the Eras by Ed. Edward I. Bleiberg, james Allan Evans, Kristen Mossler Figg, Philip M. Soerfel, and John Block Friedman
"Theater and Stagecraft in Italy" in Arts and Humanities Through the Eras by Ed. Edward I. Bleiberg, James Allan Evans, Kristen Mossler Figg, Philip M. Soergel, and John Block Friedman
Italian Drama in Shakespeare's Time by Louise George Clubb
Call Number: 852.09 C64i
ISBN: 9780300037128
Publication Date: 1989
The Italian Theatre by Joseph Spencer Kennard
Call Number: 852.09 K34i v.1
Publication Date: 1964
The Italian Tragedy in the Renaissance: cultural realities and theatrical innovations by Salvatore Di Maria
Call Number: 852.09 D58i
ISBN: 9780838754900
Publication Date: 2002
Renaissance Comedy: the Italian masters by edited with introductions by Donald Beecher
Call Number: 852.08 R39r
ISBN: 9780802094841
Publication Date: 2008
Scripts and Scenarios: the performance of comedy in Renaissance Italy by Richard Andrews
Call Number: 852.09 A56s 2007
ISBN: 9780521034159
Publication Date: 2007

he Theatre of the Italian Renaissance
ISBN: 9780761860037
Renaissance Europe 1300-1600: Theater
ISBN: 9780787656959

Renaissance Italy 1450-1550: Subjects

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Italy civilization 1268-1559

Daily Life in Renaissance Italy by Elizabeth S. Cohen and Thomas V. Cohen
Call Number: 945.05 C678d
ISBN: 0313304262
Publication Date: 2001
Daily Life in Florence in the Time of the Medici by J. Lucas-Dubreton
Call Number: 914.551 L93d
Publication Date: 1961
A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance by edited by Guido Ruggiero
Call Number: 940.21 C737c
ISBN: 0631215247
Publication Date: 2002
The Renaissance by Paul Johnson
Call Number: 940.21 J68r
ISBN: 067964086X
Publication Date: 2000
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance by Paul F. Grendler, editor in chief
Call Number: 940.23 E56e 6 Vols.
ISBN: 0684805146
Publication Date: 1999

Link to the full text of Scripts for Renaissance English 1450-1550 Play Scripts

il Mandragola (The Mandrake ) By Niccolo Machiavelli

Books in Owens Library with Renaissance Italian play scripts:

Renaissance Comedy: the Italian masters by edited with introductions by Donald Beecher
Call Number: 852.08 R39r 2 Vols.
ISBN: 9780802094841
Publication Date: 2008
*Aminta: a pastoral play (English and Latin) by Torquato Tasso; edited and translated by Charles Jernigan and Irene Marchegiani Jones
Call Number: MOBIUS REQUEST
ISBN: 0934977658
Publication Date: 2000

Representative playwrights

Arts and Humanities Through the Eras (ebook)
ISBN: 9780787656959
Biography of Niccolo Machiavelli
Arts and Humanities Through the Eras (ebook)
ISBN: 9780787656959
Biography of Ludovico Ariosto
*International dictionary of theatre: Playwrights, volume 2
Call Number: 792.03 I611i v.2
ISBN: 1558620958
Publication Date: 1992
2. Playwrights
Ariosto, Ludovico, p. 33
Machiavelli, Niccolo, p. 615
Tasso, Torquato, p. 945

The Renaissance Stage

Italy (1550-1750)

Italy 1550-1750: Subjects

The Italian theatre by Kennard, Joseph Spencer
Call Number: 852.09 K34i v.2
Publication Date: 1964
v. 2. From the close of the seventeenth century
Goldoni and the Venice of his time by Kennard, Joseph Spencer
Call Number: 852 G62Yk 1967
Publication Date: 1967

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Early Modern Italy : A Social History (eBook)
Call Number: eBook
Early Modern Italy is a fascinating survey of society in Italy from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries - the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Covering the whole of the Peninsula from the Venetian Republic, to Florence, through to Naples it shows how the huge economic, cultural and social divides of the period still affect the stability of present day united Italy.This is an essential guide to one of the most vibrant yet tempestuous periods of Italian history.
The Italians: History, art, and the genius of a people by John Julius Norwich
Call Number: 945 I883i
Publication Date: 1983
Disaster and recovery, 1527-1750 / Eric Cochrane

Links to the full text of Plyas for Renaissance English 1450-1550 Plays
Reading list for theatre majors

Free internet full-text Renaissance Italian plays:

Drama for Students (eBook)
ISBN: 9780787681180
"Author Biography" of Carlo Goldoni
*International dictionary of theatre: Playwrights by Mark Hawkins-Dady
Call Number: 792.03 I611i
ISBN: 1558620958
Publication Date: 1992
volume 2, Playwrights

Alfieri, Vittorio, p.11
Goldoni, Carlo, p.393
Gozzi, Carlo, p.405

Spanish golden age (1580-1680)

A Cultural History of Theatre by Jack Watson
(4 hour loan) This is good for:
- Acting, performance, stage design, theater design, and technical innovations
- Theater and society
- Influence on modern or contemporary theater
- Representative plays and playwrights
- Chapter 6 The Golden Age of Renaissance Spain
- Social Ideas/Art Ideas/Chambers of Rhetoric (Theater and Society)
- Golden Age Spanish Theatre – Occasion, Location, Performers, Audience, Standards of Judgement (Acting, performance, stage design, theater design and technical innovations)
- Dramatic Literature –Auto Sacramental, Commedia, Lope de Vega, Tirso de Moline, Calderon de la Barca(Representative plays and playwrights)
- Connections: (Influence on modern or contemporary theater)
- Don Juan figure used in contemporary film and television
- Dramatic influence in Latin America - use of Autos and Commedia forms
Theatre: a history of the art by Jerry V. Pickering
(4 hour loan) This is good for:
- Acting, performance, stage design, theater design
- Theater and societyRepresentative plays and playwrights
- Chapter 6 The Spanish Renaissance
- Golden Age Lope de Rueda, Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Calderon de la Barca (Representative playwrights)
- Corrales - public theatres
- Theatre Management
- Costumes
- Acting
History of the Theatre by Oscar G. Brockett with Franklin J. Hildy
(4 hour loan) This is good for:
- Acting, performance, stage design, technical innovations
- Theater, Society, and Culture
- Representative plays of the time
- Chapter 6 Spanish Theatre to 1700
- Religious Drama/ Secular Drama (Representative plays and Playwrights)
- Lope de Vega, Calderon de la Barca(Representative Playwrights)
- (Performance and Audience)
- Production Arrangement/The Director (Directing)
- The Stages/Scenery/Special Effects and Machinery Theatre Architecture/Auditorium and Audience (Stage Design)
- Acting Companies, Actors and Acting
- Costumes
- Corrales - courtyard theatres (Theatre Design)
- Stage and Scenery (Stage Design)
- Court Entertainments

The Spanish stage in the time of Lope de Vega
A companion to golden age theatre
The emergence of the comedia nueva -- Lope de vaga -- Cervantes, Tirso de molina, and the first generation -- Calderon and the comedia's second generation -- Staging and performance -- Types of Comedia and other forms of theatre -- A brief history of reception
A history of Spanish Golden Age drama
A History of Theatre in Spain
ISBN: 9780521117692

Spanish Golden Age, 1580-1680: Subjects

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*Daily life in Spain in the golden age
Call Number: Request It from MOBIUS

Drama for Students (eBooks)
ISBN: 9780787681180
"PEDRO CALDERÓN DE LA BARCA" author biography
Arts and Humanities Through the Eras (eBook)
ISBN: 9780787656959
"Theater in Golden-Age Spain" with author biographies of "Lope de Vega" & "Pedro Calderon de la Barca"

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