Befriending the Commedia Dell'arte of Flaminio Scala by Natalie Crohn Schmitt

This collection offers scholars, performers, and students a wealth of original performance texts that bring to life one of the most foundational performance genres in world theatre. These supplementary materials not only create a comprehensive picture of each script’s performance methods but also offer a blueprint for readers looking to perform the scenarios as part of their own study or professional practice. Each script is accompanied by an editorial commentary that sets out its historical context and the backstory of its composition and dramaturgical strategies, as well as scene summaries and character and properties lists. Pulcinella in Love (Pulcinella innamorato)Ĭommedia dell’Arte Scenarios g athers together a collection of scenarios from some of the most important commedia dell’arte manuscripts, many of which have never been published in English before. The Honest Courtesan (La cortigiana onesta)–Comedyħ Gibaldone Manuscripts XI.AA.40 and 41. The Thunderstruck Atheist (L’ateista fulminato)Ħ Anonymous Manuscript Correr. Manuscript 4186 (Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense) The Two Look-Alikes by Plautus (Li duo simili di Plauto)–ComedyĪ Comedy Within a Comedy (La commedia in commedia)–Comedyĥ Ciro Monarca, Dell’opere regie. Zanni Puts on Airs (Le grandezze di Zanni)–Tragicomedy Manuscripts 12 (Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense) The Enchanted Fount (Il fonte incantato)–PastoralĤ Basilio Locatelli, Della scena de Soggetti comici et tragici di B. The Nobility of Bertolino (La nobiltà di Bertolino)–Tragicomedy Codices 651 and 652, manuscripts 45.G5 and 45.G6 (Rome, Biblioteca dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana)Įlisa Alii Bassà (Elisa Alii Bassà)–Turkish opera The Madness of Isabella (La pazzia d’Isabella)–comedyģ Raccolta di scenari più scelti d’histrioni divisi in due volumi. The Jealous Old Man (Il Vecchio Geloso)–comedy The Three Cuckolds (I tre becchi)–canovaccioĢ Flaminio Scala, Il teatro delle favole rappresentative (Venice, 1611) Opera reale (Corsiniana collection)ġ Abagaro Frescobaldi, Codex II-1586 (Madrid, Real Biblioteca)

Opera eroica rappresentativa (Locatelli collection)

Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando furioso and the commedia dell’arte The stock characters of the commedia dell’arte Introduction: the dramaturgy of the commedia dell’arte Part I An introduction to commedia dell’arte

Befriending the Commedia Dell'arte of Flaminio Scala by Natalie Crohn Schmitt