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Acknowledgments | v | |
List of Abbreviations, Terminology & Usage | x | |
Introduction | xi | |
I | General Introductions to the CdA | |
Encyclopedias and reference works | 2 | |
Theater histories with significant coverage of the CdA | 4 | |
II | Sources: the Scenari of the CdA | |
Major collections of scenari: publications of and writings on them | 14 | |
Studies and analyses of scenari (thematic, repertorial, etc.) | 42 | |
III | Historical Studies of the Italian CdA | |
Collected source readings and documents (see above, specifically for scenario collections) | 46 | |
Important primary (16th- to 18th-c.) testimonies to the CdA | 50 | |
Early studies of the CdA (to 1930, in chronological order) | 53 | |
Recent studies of the CdA (1931 to present) | 64 | |
Dialectal studies of the Italian CdA | 94 | |
Ethnic studies, regional studies of the CdA | 98 | |
Goldoni, Gozzi, and the CdA | 104 | |
IV | The Diffusion of the CdA Outside Italy | |
FRANCE: the influence of the Italian CdA in France in general | 111 | |
FRANCE: the Ancien Theatre-Italien (to 1697) | 118 | |
FRANCE: Moliere and the CdA | 127 | |
FRANCE: The Nouveau Theatre-Italien and related studies (18th-c. theater in France vis-a-vis the CdA) | 130 | |
The CdA in AUSTRIA & GERMANY (incl. DENMARK) | 139 | |
The CdA in ENGLAND | 148 | |
The CdA in the NETHERLANDS | 159 | |
The CdA in SPAIN | 161 | |
The CdA in CZECHOSLOVAKIA | 166 | |
The CdA in POLAND | 166 | |
The CdA in RUSSIA | 169 | |
V | The Actors of the CdA and Their Legacy | |
Names: General or collective biographies of the actors | 172 | |
Letters of comici dell'arte | 175 | |
Persons: Individual actors--works by (texts & treatises) and works about | 177 | |
The troupes of the CdA | 197 | |
VI | The Masques (stock characters) of the CdA | |
General studies | 200 | |
Specific masques: | ||
Brighella | 209 | |
Capitano | 209 | |
Dottore | 211 | |
Fritellino (cf. Scapino) | 212 | |
Harlequin/Arlecchino | 213 | |
"Innamorati" (Lovers) | 224 | |
Magnifico | 225 | |
Pantalone | 225 | |
Pierrot | 228 | |
Pulcinella | 232 | |
Scapino (cf. Fritellino) | 238 | |
Scaramouche/Scaramuccia | 239 | |
Stenterello | 241 | |
Tabarin/Tabarrino | 242 | |
The "vecchi" (old men) | 242 | |
The "zanni" (servants) | 243 | |
VII | Improvising and the Mask | |
Improvisation; improvisatory aspects of the CdA | 246 | |
Masks: general writings on their theatrical history and use | 249 | |
VIII | Dance, Music, and the CdA | |
Dance, acrobatics and mime | 255 | |
Music and the CdA | 258 | |
IX | The Revival of the CdA in the 19th & 20th Centuries | |
Improvisatory theater rediscovered; CdA influences in general | 268 | |
Lazzi then and now | 272 | |
CdA influences & revivals since 1800--surveys, methods, actor training, CdA-style comedies (in country "x") | 274 | |
X | The Iconography of the CdA | |
Bibliographies of pictorial sources; catalogs of collections | 293 | |
Exhibition catalogs | 294 | |
Iconographic studies | 300 | |
Collected illustrations of CdA masques, etc. | 318 | |
XI | Literature and the CdA | |
Fiction, poetry and the CdA | 327 | |
Appendix | Scenari of the CdA: a Title Index | 332 |
Bibliography in Alphabetical Order, referenced to classified entries | 357 | |
General Index | 419 |
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