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Levels of presence in the drama text: Between close and distant reading1

open access: yesOrbis 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
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PRIVATE RELIGION AS RESISTANCE IN ANNA SEGHERS’ DER PROZESS DER JEANNE D'ARC ZU ROUEN 1431 (1937) AND BERTOLT BRECHT'S 1952 STAGE ADAPTATION

open access: yesGerman 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
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Female Representation and Violence in the Ceremonial Entries of the Italian Wars

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 36, Issue 5, Page 750-768, November 2022., 2022
Abstract This essay considers the gendered implications of female representation in the ceremonial entries of the Italian Wars (1494–1559) in light of the events' hyper‐masculine martial context. It takes a holistic approach, uncommon in entry scholarship, by considering the thematic intersections between entry decorations, participation, performance ...
Elizabeth Reid
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Early encounters

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, Volume 76, Issue 6, Page 278-289, December 2021., 2021
Abstract This essay discusses two early encounters of theater that took place in different parts of the world at approximately the same time: in the German‐speaking countries in Europe and on the islands of Japan in Asia during the second half of the sixteenth century and the first decades of the seventeenth century. In both cases a particular kind of “
Erika Fischer‐Lichte
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Acromegaly, Mr Punch and caricature. [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
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A parody of action: Politics and pantomime in Agamben's critique of Arendt

open access: yes, 2022
Constellations, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 404-416, December 2022.
Sergei Prozorov
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"In questo", il teatro gli scenari della commedia dell'arte "In this", the theater and the scenery of the commedia dell'arte

open access: yesTrans/Form/Ação, 2001
Il segreto della commedia dell'arte è stato nel paradosso di Maschera e Improvvisazione, Tipo Fisso e Testo Variabile, Conservazione e Innovazione. Per questo è stato nei secoli esaltata o denigrata: considerata reazionaria dalla Rivoluzione francese e ...
Roberto Cuppone
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‘The Spanish seignor’ or the transnational peregrinations of an anti‐Hispanic Dutch broadsheet

open access: yes, 2022
Renaissance Studies, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 46-64, February 2022.
Yolanda Rodríguez Pérez
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Komedia dell'arte: między lokalnością a globalnością

open access: yesAnnales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Historicolitteraria, 2017
Commedia dell’arte: between localism and globalism Abstract Subject to the present review is Lokalność i mobilność kulturowa teatru. Śladami Arlekinai Pulcinelli of Ewa Bal.
Aleksandra Koman
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Il ponte e lo specchio

open access: yesAntropologia e Teatro, 2021
Starting point of the article’s thesis is the author's personal experience of theatrical practice and contact with other theatrical cultures, especially in Asia and, even more, in Japan.
Fabio Mangolini
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