What is Commedia dell’Arte Today? A Review Essay

Drábek, Pavel

Abstract

This essay reviews seven recent volumes on the commedia dell'arte: Christopher B. Balme, Piermario Vescovo, and Daniele Vianello's edited volume Commedia dell’Arte in Context (2018); Judith Chaffee and Oliver Crick's edited The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell’Arte (2014); Erith Jaffe-Berg's Commedia dell’ Arte and the Mediterranean: Charting Journeys and Mapping ‘Others’ (2016); Andrea Fabiano's La Comédie-Italienne de Paris et Carlo Goldoni: De la commedia dell’arte à l’opéra-comique, une dramaturgie de l'hybridation au XVIIIe siècle (2018); Emily Wilbourne's Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia dell’Arte (2016); Natalie Crohn Schmitt's Befriending the Commedia dell’arte of Flaminio Scala: The Comic Scenarios (2014); and Markus Kupferblum's Die geburt der neugier aus dem geist der revolution. Die commedia dell’arte als politisches volkstheater (2013).

Citation

Drábek, P. (2019). What is Commedia dell’Arte Today? A Review Essay. Early theatre, 22(2), 199-216. https://doi.org/10.12745/et.22.2.4128

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Nov 6, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Dec 28, 2019
• Publication Date: Dec 28, 2019
• Deposit Date: Feb 13, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: May 28, 2020
• Journal: Early Theatre
• Print ISSN: 1206-9078
• Publisher: Early Theatre
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 199-216
• Series ISSN: 2293-7609
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.12745/et.22.2.4128
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/3394135
• Publisher URL: https://earlytheatre.org/earlytheatre/article/view/4128