120 Pages
by
Routledge
120 Pages
by
Routledge
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Focusing on Commedia Dell'Arte, this work provides a historical and critical commentary of the Commedia. It highlights common factors between this genre and that of the Japanese Noh theatre. The author proposes six similarities: characters familiar to their audience and masked, minimal properties and scenery with the focus on the actor, the "families" of performers, a sharp mind as well as an... Read more
Introduction; Ancient Greece to Molière; Stock Characters; The Scenarios; Improvisation; Please Be Gentle: An introduction; Please Be Gentle Appendix: Making a leather mask
Biography
David Griffiths
