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In the Footsteps of Harlequin and Pulcinella: Cultural Mobility and Localness of Theatre

In the Footsteps of Harlequin and Pulcinella: Cultural Mobility and Localness of Theatre

Burzyński, Jan
Burzyński, Jan
Kocur, Miroslaw

Hardcover

Series: Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance, Book 24

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ISBN10: 3631822251
ISBN13: 9783631822258
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Jul 28 2020
Pages: 394
Weight: 1.74
Height: 1.19 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

The author takes readers on a journey in the footsteps of Harlequin and Pulcinella, two well-known commedia dell'arte masks, to show the historically fluctuating way in which they participated in building Italianness in the eyes of foreign theatre audiences (the history of the Harlequin mask in France, Italy and Poland in the XVII and XVIII century) and local ones (the history of the Pulcinella mask, or the Italian dialect theatre of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which historians, at a certain point, erased from the process of the creation and construction of the Italian national community). Using modern performance studies methodologies, this book effectively cuts the distance between past and present theatre practices, opening new prospects for an active and clearly situated epistemology for theatre studies, cultural studies, media studies, and performance studies.

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