This essay critically examines the autobiography of Eduardo Scarpetta, problematizing the idea of the author’s memoir as an authentic confession. Analysing several declarations written by Scarpetta, the study shows how ...

The study examines an essay written by Otto Brahm and published in October 1909 in the «Berliner Tageblatt». A careful reading of the entire document entitled Freie Bühne, complete with the last three pages handwritten by ...

In 1933-34, the Bloomsbury Group painters Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell honored twelve actresses and dancers from XVIIto XXcentury in The Famous Women Dinner Service, the Wedgewood dinner set which was one of Bell and ...

One of the first voices of the twentieth century that invoked the essence of the theater as the man in action, in his entirety as body mind, is that of Antonin Artaud. His writings reflect his tormented existential and ...

Augustin works out, in his long production, a complex but unitary vision of creation; according to him, the history is the scene of the course of human actions (theatrum mundus) and God is at the same time creator and sole ...

Numerous ways of research follow, in an auton-omous manner, the evolution of Commedia dell'Arte in different context in which it takes place: from courtly patronage of northern Italy to the atypical ...

L’ingresso della drammaturgia di Pirandello nel circuito dei teatri di lingua tedesca è segnato dal debutto a Vienna, nell’aprile 1924, dei Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore (1921). Stimolato verosimilmente da quella prima ...

Il saggio ripercorre l’intenso e controverso rapporto intercorso fra Vittorio Gassman e la stampa teatrale, in particolare, negli anni che vanno dall’enorme successo di pubblico dell’Amleto (1952) al ciclo di spettacoli ...