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Product Description: This two-volume set (of "The English and Italian Theatre" and "Design, Image and Acting") includes many of the papers given at a conference held at the Globe Theatre in August 1997. The essays examine a range of themes related to Renaissance dramatic production, including costume and stage design, the representation of theatrical figures in texts and illustrations, as well as on the stage; what dramatic texts may reveal about their staging, and comparisons and contrasts between English and continental traditions...read more

Product Description: This volume along with a previous one (on "The English and Italian Theatre") include many of the papers given at a conference held at the Globe Theatre in August 1997. The essays examine a range of themes related to Renaissance dramatic production, including costume and stage design, the representation of theatrical figures in texts and illustrations, as well as on the stage; what dramatic texts may reveal about their staging, and comparisons and contrasts between English and continental traditions...read more

Product Description: This volume and a second (on "Design, Image and Acting") include many of the papers given at a conference held at the Globe Theatre in August 1997. The essays examine a range of themes related to Renaissance dramatic production, including costume and stage design, the representation of theatrical figures in texts and illustrations, as well as on the stage; what dramatic texts may reveal about their staging, and comparisons and contrasts between English and continental traditions...read more

Product Description: This volume offers translated texts of three classics of Italian Renaissance comedy, with introductions and bibliographies for each: Ariosto's seminal second play, "The Supposes"; Machiavelli's "Mandrake"; and the composition of the Sienese Intronati, "The Deceived"...read more

Product Description: Papers collected in this volume were given at the Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, in March, 1993, at a conference organized to coincide with the English premiere of the first English language staging of Pietro Aretino's "Talanta". Grants had been obtained to construct the Roman perspective set as described by Aretino in 1542...read more

Product Description: This volume presents English translations of three Italian Renaissance comedies not readily available to the English-speaking reader and director: Ariosto's "Lena"; Ruzante's "Posh Talk"; and Aretino's "Talanta". Of contrasting styles, they share some characteristics, which mirror the advance of all Italian literature from humanism to the Counter-Reformation, from Bembo to Sperone Speroni and from rudimentary or symbolic staging to a comparatively sophisticated realism in the treatment of stage space...read more

Product Description: This volume collects the 1988 papers of The Society for Italian Studies, comprising Volume Six in the series "The Italian Origins of European Theatre".

Product Description: The first modern study of the great reforming Bishop of Brescia (1513-1579). It contains besides a complete biography, important chapters i.a. about the Council of Trent in which Bollani participated, and the application of the Tridentine Decrees in Brescia...read more