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Commedia
"Commedia" is a poetry manuscript focused on etymology and cosmogony viewed through stock characters from traditional Commedia dell'arte improvisational theater. The text focuses on the characters ability to dream a new world into reality, pulling from the traditions of several ancient creation …
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Commedia
Commedia is a novel set in 410 AD during the collapse of the Roman Empire. The island of Britain has recently freed itself from Roman rule, and a small group of comedy actors find themselves caught up in a cultural struggle between the old Roman aristocracy and the new British nouveau riche. On a …
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L'Ottimo Commento alla Commedia". "Paradiso".
Edizione critica dell'Ottimo Commento al Paradiso dantesco.
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Il Pazzia D'innamorati: A Commedia Dell'arte
… develop, script, direct and produce my own commedia dell'arte. This proposal stems from my desire to explore improvisational comedy theoretically and practically. The genre of commedia dell'arte is not only timeless, but continues to further our ability to create characters and scenario for …
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First-Person Participation in Dante's 'Commedia'
… participation in relation to Dante’s 'Commedia', a narrative poem I propose to function as an exceptionally participatory text. That Dante’s poem invites active engagement on the part of its readers is widely accepted in scholarship. My objective is to extend this debate by identifying …
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Moliere And Commedia Dell'arte:past, Present, And Future
… of Scapin will serve as a resource in both commedia dell'arte's ability to resonate with a modern audience as well as an analysis of the actor's process in fusing elements of commedia dell'arte and contemporary acting techniques. This document will include a thorough description of the …
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Dante's Manhoods: Authorial Masculinities before the Commedia
This study examines the ways that Dante uses concepts of the masculine in his early work to offer an analysis of the masculine ideals which lie at the basis of Dante's construction of himself as an author in the lyric poems and in his discussions of Latin and Italian. I describe ideals and …
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City on the Hill - Palazzo della Commedia
This thesis is an exploration of three architectural types: regia, tholus, and theatrum which put together in the form of a building would demonstrate the nature of architecture. My quest traces these types in time and geography and combines them in a play that takes place in the form of a building …
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Commedia: Rhetoric And Technology In The Media Commons
<p>This dissertation analyzes the organization of individuals through online social media applications and other community-building websites, such as Facebook, Wikipedia, Google Maps, and online classrooms, using the Aristotelian rhetorical concept of the commonplaces as well as political, …
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Arlecchino's Journey: Crossing Boundaries Through La Commedia Dell'arte
<p><em>La commedia dell'arte</em> is a recognized, vibrant theatrical form that emerged in Italy during the Renaissance. However, while great attention has been given to the particulars of the genre (performance techniques, important troupes, leading players), there lacks a study behind the …
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The Elizabethan Drama and The 'Commedia Dell' Arte'
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Dante Praedicator: Sermons and Preaching Culture in the Commedia
… to an Understudied Rhetorical Mode in the Commedia," elaborates on the argument that Dante the poet oftentimes acts as a preacher, and shows how this claim opens up new lines of inquiry into the poet's textuality. The first part of this chapter shows how the Commedia's early reception …
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Le 'Chiose Cagliaritane' alla 'Commedia': edizione critica e commento
… edition of the Chiose Cagliaritane on the Commedia, a set of anonymous vernacular glosses on Dante’s poem, transmitted exclusively by manuscript 76 of the University Library of Cagliari, produced toward the end of the 14th century by an author from eastern Tuscany. In addition to preparing …
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Dante, Augustine, and the Body of Christ in the Commedia
… I investigate the figure of Christ in Dante’s Commedia as the redemption of human relation, realized in and as the mystical body of Christ. If, as is claimed in the Paradiso, what it means to inhabit beatitude is so fully to practice justice and mercy as to be able to speak I and we …
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True flesh: pilgrimage, measure, and perfecting the human in Dante’s 'Commedia'
Critics of Dante’s Commedia have frequently maintained that the 14th-century poem depicts a “pilgrimage” in the sense of a journey to God, undertaken both in imitation of the actual practice of pilgrimage to holy sites such as Jerusalem and Santiago de Compostela, as well as of the Biblical Exodus, …
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Dante’s Hapax Legomena in the Commedia: A Study of Poetic Singularity
… only once in a given text or corpus, in Dante’s *Commedia*. Hapax in Dante’s work have previously been interpreted mostly in terms of the poet’s contribution to the Italian language. Hapax are defined in these works as words whose only occurrence in fourteenth century Italian literature is in the …
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Poetical vocabulary in Dante's Commedia: imitation, emulation, superseding and redemption of the classics
… references to classical literature in the Commedia, which suggest a profound knowledge of the auctores despite the little evidence for Dante’s actual education. Previous studies have focused on the modality and quality of classical reception in Dante as the work of a man living in a world …
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Rhythmical Figures in Dante’s Commedia: A Study of Memory and Composition after Gianfranco Contini
… of the compositional processes of Dante’s Commedia. It shows how the repetition of similar items, or ‘figures’, relates to orality both in a transmissional, or textual-critical sense, as well as in a compositional, or oral-formulaic, sense. Recollected language in the poem is discovered to …
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Dante's Ministry of Felicity: The Interplay of Beatitude, Metaphysics, and Intercessory Prayer in the Theological Imagination of the 'Commedia'
… about beatitude, metaphysics, and prayer in the 'Commedia'. These conversations reflect theological interest in beatitude and causality, prayer and divine and human interaction, and the eschatological dimension of prayer. By asking this question at the heart of these conversations and interests, …
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A journey back home through a mask for the 21st century : the legacy of Commedia dell'Arte in postdramatic theatre with particular focus on the centrality of the actor in devised performance : a practice-as-research PhD based on three years of research, culminating in this thesis, an ensemble devised performance A Floating Caravan Under the Moon (2015/16) and a solo piece Home/Finding Home (2017/18)
… interpretation and practical explorations of Commedia dell’Arte’s legacy and continuing relevance to contemporary performance. An original contribution to contemporary studies on the Commedia dell’Arte, this research highlights the striking similarities between Commedia’s core principles and …
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