List of Figures vi
Introduction: The Balli di Sfessania di Jacomo Callot 1
1 Jacques Callot’s Paper Theatre: Etching and Improvisation 65
2 The Capriccio, the Grotesque, and the Callotesque 83
3 Collecting Callot 98
4 The Romantic Resurrection of Callot and the Commedia dell’arte 114
5 Peering at the Prints: The Impassioned Gaze on Paper 131
6 Callot on Stage: From Grotesque to Hero 146
Conclusion: Roland Barthes Lived on Rue Callot: Theatre
and the Replicated Image 161
Bibliography 167
Acknowledgments 185
Index 186
Biography
Kyna Hamill is the Director of the College of Arts and Sciences Core Curriculum at Boston University. She specializes in Baroque theatricality, theatre and visual culture, and the commedia dell’arte tradition. She has published articles on props, print culture, telescopes, staged violence, and the monstrous in the 17th century. She edited They Fight: Classical to Contemporary Stage Fight Scenes, a collection of stage combat scenes, with special attention paid to diverse weaponry and scenes for women. Hamill’s research on the origins of the song “Jingle Bells” was covered in The Guardian in 2017.
