Results 11 to 20 of about 49,123 (212)
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2015 Commedia dell’Arte is the 16th century genre of theatre from Italy where characters such as Pantalone, Dottore, Il Capitano and Arlecchino reappear in performances showcasing human frailties in comic ways. The term Commedia was initially used to describe
Corinna Di Niro, Pablo Muslera
doaj +3 more sources
Levels of presence in the drama text: Between close and distant reading1
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 78, Issue 5, Page 401-420, October 2023., 2023 Abstract Digital studies of drama have tended to emphasise the written text and network analyses. As theatre scholars, we have approached the field from a different perspective by focusing on levels of presence. This includes the embodied presence of not only the speaking characters, but also the non‐speaking characters and the imagined characters ...
Ulla Kallenbach, Anna Lawaetz
wiley +1 more source
Issues in Review: New Developments in Commedia Research: The Commedia dell'Arte: New Perspectives and New Documents [PDF]
, 2008 Introduction to "Issues in Review: New developments in commedia research", 141-240, guest editor M A Katritzky. The first of six articles in this section, it introduces the five further articles, by Maria Ines Aliverti (158-180), Rosalind Kerr (181-197),
Katritzky, M. A.
core +1 more source
German Life and Letters, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 392-409, July 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This article will examine the representation of religion in Anna Seghers’ radio play Der Prozess der Jeanne d'Arc zu Rouen 1431 (1937) and Bertolt Brecht's subsequent adaptation of this text for the stage (1952). While religiosity is central to the identity of the medieval heroine, Seghers chooses to communicate this feature to modern ...
Cordula Böcking
wiley +1 more source
Dannata ricchezza e beata povertà: La spiritualità francescana in Dante
Ocula, 2022 A vertical reading of Cantos xi of the Comedy reveals a thick network of interconnections between the administration of money in Inferno, the punishment of the prideful through exempla of humility in Purgatorio xi, and the representation of Francis's ...
Alessandro Vettori
doaj +1 more source
History and Theory, Volume 62, Issue 2, Page 251-271, June 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This article argues that, in the fourteenth century, there was a wave of nostalgia that was provoked by extreme structural change: this was a moment of demographic catastrophe (with famine and plague), endemic warfare, economic fluctuation, intensified urbanization, and intellectual and spiritual novelties.
Hannah Skoda
wiley +1 more source
Ocula, 2022 The study of Dante from a semiotic perspective has led to the double result of acquiring new perspectives on Dante's work and promoting international dialogue in the semiotic community, thus creating a fertile ground for experimentation, comparison and ...
Jenny Ponzo
doaj +1 more source
The Heythrop Journal, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 75-86, January 2023., 2023 Abstract In this essay, I interrogate the nature and grounds of Milbank's understanding of taste as it applies to differing mythic sensibilities, arguing that it is insufficiently responsive to the priority of God's action and so inadequate to a Christian theological account of the interplay of mythoi.
Andrew T. Shamel
wiley +1 more source
Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia de Cultura, 2017 Lo scopo dell’articolo è quello di presentare le traduzioni polacche di tre lazzi goldoniani presenti nella commedia Il servitore di due padroni. Si tratta di una delle pièces più significative e note del drammaturgo veneziano e ciò giustifica il fatto ...
Paulina Kwaśniewska-Urban
doaj +1 more source
Acromegaly, Mr Punch and caricature. [PDF]
, 1996 The origin of Mr Punch from the Italian Pulcinella of the Commedia dell'arte is well known but his feature, large hooked nose, protruding chin, kyphosis and sternal protrusion all in an exaggerated form also suggest the caricature of an acromegalic. This
Armstrong R +20 more
core +2 more sources