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The Metamorphoses of Commedia dell’Arte  traces the steps by which Commedia has been transformed by cultural contact outside Italy into popular forms which bear little resemblance to the original. The book follows the Masks of Arlecchino, Pedrolino and Pulcinella as they gradually migrate and mutate into Harlequin, Mr. Punch and seaside Pierrot troupes. What happened to Pantalone, Scaramouche, Colombina and the male Lover is also investigated, though they had no final forms of their own.  This study constitutes a history of what happened, notably in France and Great Britain, to a supremely popular theatrical genre as a result of changing fashions in entertainment brought on by societal developments, civil and industrial revolution and dynastic change.  It investigates how the genre was exploited by management, and even its own stars, lost its vitality and gradually ended up in ‘sunken’ forms.
Autor: Rudlin, John
ISBN: 9783031105135
Sprache: Englisch
Seitenzahl: 249
Produktart: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Veröffentlicht: 25.10.2023
Untertitel: Whatever Happened to Harlequin?
Schlagworte: Commedia dell’Arte Harlequin Pantomime Pierrot Popular entertainment Punch and Judy

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