• Let’s Play Melodrama 

      McNeeley, Gale (2022)
      Melodrama is a show of emotions. It is a question of heart, in a mixture of feelings for the audience. In my 40 years of work as an actor, I am fascinated by this form of art: it is a sort of game between performers ...
    • Strategie del patetico e interludi circensi in Hide and Seek di Wilkie Collins 

      De Giovanni, Flora (Roma : Carocci, 2013)
      Starting from Victor Turner’s definitions of cultural performance and liminoid phenomena, the essay aims to analyse Wilkie Collins’s third novel, Hide and Seek (1854), which seems to be a sort of survey of the pastimes ...
    • Il teatro come spettacolo e lo spettacolo teatrale in Alberto Arbasino 

      D’Antuono, Nicola (Avellino : Associazione culturale Internazionale Sinestesie, 2019)
      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 ...