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Commedia dell'Arte Reading List.

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Commedia dell'Arte Training (5 items)

Playing commedia: a training guide to commedia techniques - Grantham, Barry, 2000
Book | Core (Must Read)

Commedia plays: scenarios, scripts, lazzi : eight original plays based on the different
periods and styles of the Commedia dell'Arte for performance, workshop and training -
Grantham, Barry, 2006
Book

Commedia dell'arte: an actor's handbook - Rudlin, John, 1994

Book | Suggested for student purchase

Commedia dell'arte: a handbook for troupes - Rudlin, John, Crick, Olly, 2001
Book | Core (Must Read)

The comic mask in the commedia dell'arte: actor training, improvisation, and the poetics
of survival - Fava, Antonio, c2007
Book

Commedia dell'Arte History and Tradition (7 items)

The Commedia dell'arte from the Renaissance to Dario Fo - Cairns, Christopher, Society for
Italian Studies, date of publication not identified
Book

The Commedia dell'arte - Oreglia, Giacomo, 1968

Book

A servant of many masters: the life and times of Carlo Goldoni - Holme, Timothy, 1976
Book

The world of Harlequin: a critical study of the commedia dell'arte - Nicoll, Allardyce, 1963
Book

The science of buffoonery: theory and history of the commedia dell'arte - Pietropaolo,
Domenico, 1989
Book

The commedia dell'arte: a documentary history - Richards, Kenneth, Richards, Laura, 1990
Book

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Studies in the Commedia dell'Arte - George, David J., Gossip, Christopher J., 1993
Book

Commedia Plays, Scenarios and Lazzi (4 items)

A servant to two masters - Goldoni, Carlo, Hall, Lee, Royal Shakespeare Company, Young
Vic Theatre Company, 1999
Book

Lazzi: the comic routines of the Commedia dell' arte - Gordon, M., 1983
Book

The three cuckolds - Katz, Leon, 1986

Book

Son of Arlecchino: a commedia dell'arte farce in two acts - Katz, Leon, 1986
Book

Commedia dell'Arte Images (2 items)

The art of commedia: a study in the Commedia dell'arte 1560-1620 with special reference
to the visual records - Katritzky, M. A., 2006
Book

The Italian comedy: the improvisation, scenarios, lives, attributes, portraits, and masks of
the illustrious characters of the commedia dell'arte - Duchartre, Pierre Louis, Weaver,
Randolph T., [c1966]
Book

A Servant to Two Masters - Giorgio Strelher (video) (1 items)

Arlecchino servitore di due padroni - Goldoni, Carlo, Strehler, Giorgio, 2002
Audio-visual document

Commedia Mask Making Video (1 items)

Masks of the Commedia dell'Arte - Fava, Antonio, Rudlin, John, 1993
Audio-visual document

Texts on clowns and clowning (2 items)

The Victorian clown - Bratton, J. S., Featherstone, Ann, 2006
Book

The art of clowning - Simon, Eli, 2009

Book

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Books on recent physical comedy (3 items)

Look for connections between these recent comedies and the commedia tradition.

The Goodies rule OK - Ross, Robert, 2006

Book

From fringe to flying circus: celebrating a unique generation of comedy, 1960-1980 -

Wilmut, R., 1980
Book

Didn't you kill my mother-in-law?: the story of alternative comedy in Britain from the
Comedy Store to Saturday Live - Wilmut, Roger, Rosengard, Peter, 1989
Book

Recent physical comedy on DVD and VHS (6 items)

While there were no video cameras or recording devices in the 16th Century, some
television comedy relies heavily on commedia form and tradition.

Fawlty Towers - Cleese, John, Booth, Connie, Davies, John Howard, Argent, Douglas, Spiers,
Bob, 1998
Audio-visual document

The Goodies: at last a second helping - 1970-1977

Audio-visual document

Saturday live: the best of series one - Jackson, Paul, Posner, Geoff, 1986
Audio-visual document

Blackadder goes forth - Boden, Richard, British Broadcasting Corporation, 1998

Audio-visual document

Young ones: complete series one and two - Elton, Ben, Mayall, Rik, Mayer, Lisa, Jackson,
Paul, Posner, Geoff, British Broadcasting Corporation, 1982-1984
Audio-visual document

Blackadder Remastered - The Ultimate Edition - dir: Mandie Fletcher, 1982

Audio-visual document

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