Francesco Saverio Salfi was a playwright between the XVIIIth and the XIXth centuries. The differences with the curia of Cosenza led him to move to Naples in 1785. He became very active in promoting the interests of the ...

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 ...

This essay analyzes the role and the function of theatre and show in the different Alberto Arbasino’s works and poetic. It points out the paradigm from melodrama to cabaret, to musical, to magazine. Inside the courses and ...

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 ...

The essay constitutes a first approach to a research project. It focuses on a problem related to an analysis of Andrea Perrucci’s treatise Dell’arte rappresentativa premeditata, ed all’improvviso (1699). In this book ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Questa intervista all’artista Chiara Bersani nasce dall’urgenza di confronto tra le teorie e le ridefinizioni estetiche delle pratiche artistiche. Mentre infatti gli artisti sfidano le rappresentazioni e le concezioni di ...