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Useful resources for those practicing or being entertained by commedia dell'arte. |
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Below are a list of books relating to commedia with links to their entries in Case Western Reserve University's Kelvin Smith Library (KSL), and the OHIOLink Catalog for you to request and borrow. Most of these books are also available in the CLEVNET Library Consortium of northern Ohio but do not have persistent links. |
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Duchartre, Pierre Louis. Italian Comedy, the: the improvisation, scenarios, lives, attributes, portraits and masks of the illustrious characters of the commedia dell'arte. New York, NY. D'Arte et Inustrie (original), Dover Publications (trans.), 1955 (1966 trans.). |
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Eldredge, Sears A. Mask Improvisation for Actor Training and Performance: the compelling image. Evanston, IL. Northwestern University Press, 1996. |
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Fava, Antonio. Comic mask in the Commedia dell'Arte, the: actor training, improvisation, and the poetics of survival. Evanston, IL. Northwestern University Press, 2007. |
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Gordon, Mel. Lazzi: the comic routines of the commedia dell'arte.New York, NY. Performing Arts Journal Publications and Baltimore, MD. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983 |
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Grantham, Barry. Commedia Plays: scenarios, scripts, lazzi. London, UK. Nick Hern, 2006. |
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Grantham, Barry. Playing Commedia: a training guide to commedia techniques. Portsmouth, NH. Heinemann Drama, 2000. |
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Nicoll, Allardyce. Masks, Mimes and Miracles; studies in the popular theatre. New York, NY. Cooper Square Publishers, 1963. |
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Rolfe, Bari. Commedia dell'Arte: a scene study book. San Francisco, CA. Persona Products, 1977. |
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Rudlin, John. Commedia dell'Arte: an actor's handbook. London & New York . Routledge, 1994. |
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Rudlin, John and Olly Crick. Commedia dell'Arte: a handbook for troupes. London & New York. Routledge, 2001. |
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Sand, Maurice. History of the Harlequinade, two volumes. London, UK. M. Secker, 1915. |
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Scala, Flaminio (Henry F. Salerno, trans. & ed.). Scenarios of the Commedia dell'Arte: Flaminio Scala's Il teatro delle favole rappresentative. New York, NY. New York University Press & London, UK University of London Press Limited, 1992. |
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Thurston, James. Prop Builder's Mask-Making Handbook, the. Cincinnati, OH. Betterway Books, 1990. |
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| CLEVNET | CWRU KSL unavailable | OHIOLink |
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