Plays of the Italian Theatre
by Giavanni Verga, Ercole Luigi Morselli, and Sabatino Lopez
The Divine Comedy is an epic poem by Dante Alighieri, written between 1308 and 1321, and it's considered one of the greatest works of world literature. It contains the Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise: the three levels which Dante must undergo on his way to meet God. Purgatory is the second part, and it tells of Dante's climb up the Mount of Purgatory, again guided by the Virgil. The mountain is in the Southern Hemisphere, and it's divided into two: (Ante-Purgatory), which contains seven levels...
Ma non è una cosa seria (Il Teatro Di Pirandello, #16)
by Professor Luigi Pirandello
Saints` Lives and Bible Stories for the Stage – A Bilingual Edition (Other Voice - Toronto, #7)
by Antonia Pulci
This fresh translation of five plays securely authored by Antonia Pulci—one of the first published women writers in Renaissance Florence—reveals this gifted dramatist at her finest. Intended primarily for a convent audience, Pulci’s plays give us a fascinating glimpse into how theatrical expressions of female religiosity were animated by both exemplary female saints’ lives and contemporary debates over marriage and virginity. There is much to recommend in this new bilingual presentation. The tra...
Rocco and his Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli) (BFI Film Classics)
by Sam Rohdie
Sam Rohdie's insightful and compelling analysis of Luchino Visconti's 1960 epic of modern urban life provides reveals the film as one of the greatest masterpieces of Italian cinema. Rocco tells the story of a family of peasants uprooted from their village in southern Italy, and forced to battle for existence in the industrial metropolis of Milan.Though fascinated by the social reality of modern Italy, Visconti had by this time thrown off the influence of the neorealist movement. He had develop...
Mirtilla, A Pastoral – A Bilingual Edition (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, #531)
Isabella Andreini was the most famous actress of the Italian Renaissance, the darling of dukes and kings, as well as of less-moneyed theatergoers. As a founding member with her husband, Francesco, of the Compagnia dei Gelosi, she performed ceaselessly throughout Italy and France, and was prized for the new role she invented for women on stage, that of the ingénue with a comic bent. She was also a playwright; in fact, the first woman to publish a pastoral. This modern edition and translation subt...
Il giuoco delle parti (Il Teatro Di Pirandello, #15)
by Professor Luigi Pirandello
L'unica tragedia scritta da Torquato Tasso - Il Re Torrismondo - e stata tradotta una sola volta, nell'arco dell'enorme successo ottenuto dal Tasso in Europa, tra Cinque e Seicento: e una traduzione in francese, pubblicata a Parigi nel 1636, opera di Charles Vion d'Alibray, italianista illustre e teorico del teatro francese del tempo; una prefazione di notevole interesse, soprattutto all'interno del dibattito teatrale di quegli anni, precede la traduzione stessa. Ripresentare oggi Le Torrismon d...
The collection includes four theatrical works of acclaimed Italian author, Dacia Maraini, in a dual-language format (Italian/English). The works have been chosen around the themes of distress, exclusion, and various manifestations of tragedy with particular reference to women. The works were chosen within a modern and a historical reference in order to give breadth to the main themes. The individual works include: (a) Stravaganza/Extravagance. The unfolding drama alludes to the Legge Basaglia (t...
One, None and a Hundred Thousand (General Press)
by Luigi Pirandello
La Principessa Filosofa O Sia Il Controveleno / La Princesse Philosophe Ou Le Contrepoison (Bibliotheque Italienne, #40)
by Carlo Gozzi
Il berretto a sonagli (Il Teatro Di Pirandello, #14)
by Professor Luigi Pirandello
Entangled Performance Histories (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)
Entangled Performance Histories is the first book-length study that applies the concept of "entangled histories" as a new paradigm in the field of theater and performance historiography. "Entangled histories" denotes the interconnectedness of multiple histories that cannot be addressed within national frameworks. The concept refers to interconnected pasts, in which historical processes of contact and exchange between performance cultures affected all involved. Presenting case studies from acros...
