Editions Rodopi BV is pleased to announce the following new publications
in Comparative Literature:
* The Art of Commedia. A Study in the Commedia dell’Arte 1560-1620 with
Special Reference to the Visual Records.
M.A. Katritzky
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2006. 625 pp, incl. 340 ill.
(Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden
Literaturwissenschaft 100)
ISBN: 90-420-1798-8 Bound Euro 180,-/ US$ 244.-
Online Info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=IFAVL+100
More Info:
Italian comedians attracted audiences to performances at every level, from
the magnificent Italian, German and French court festival appearances of
Orlando di Lasso or Isabella Andreini, to the humble street trestle lazzi
of anonymous quacks. The characters they inspired continue to exercise a
profound cultural influence, and an understanding of the commedia
dell’arte and its visual record is fundamental for scholars of post-1550
European drama, literature, art and music. The 340 plates presented here
are considered in the light of the rise and spread of commedia stock
types, and especially Harlequin, Zanni and the actresses. Intensively
researched in public and private collections in Oxford, Munich, Florence,
Venice, Paris and elsewhere, they complement the familiar images of
Jacques Callot and the Stockholm Recueil Fossard within a framework of
hundreds of significant pictures still virtually unknown in this context.
These range from anonymous popular prints to pictures by artists such as
Ambrogio Brambilla, Sebastian Vrancx, Jan Bruegel, Louis de Caulery,
Marten de Vos, and members of the Valckenborch and Francken clans. This
volume, essential for commedia dell’arte specialists, represents an
invaluable reference resource for scholars, students, theatre
practitioners and artists
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