Commedia dell' Arte and the Mediterranean: Charting Journeys and Mapping 'Others'

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Erith Jaffe-Berg

Commedia dell' Arte and the Mediterranean

Charting Journeys and Mapping 'Others'

Erith Jaffe-Berg

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Routledge
12 December 2019

The Arts: General & Reference; Theatre Studies

Series: Transculturalisms, 1400-1700

Drawing on published collections and also manuscripts from Mantuan archives, Commedia dell' arte and the Mediterranean locates commedia dell' arte as a performance form reflective of its cultural crucible in the Mediterranean. The study provides a broad perspective on commedia dell’ arte as an expression of the various cultural, gender and language communities in Italy during the early-modern period, and explores the ways in which the art form offers a platform for reflection on power and cultural exchange.

While highlighting the prevalence of Mediterranean crossings in the scenarios of commedia dell' arte, this book examines the way in which actors embodied characters from across the wider Mediterranean region. The presence of Mediterranean minority groups such as Arabs, Armenians, Jews and Turks within commedia dell' arte is marked on stage and 'backstage' where they were collaborators in the creative process. In addition, gendered performances by the first female actors participated in 'staging' the Mediterranean by using the female body as a canvas for cartographical imaginings.

By focusing attention on the various communities involved in the making of theatre, a central preoccupation of the book is to question the dynamics of 'exchange' as it materialized within a spectrum inclusive of both cultural collaboration but also of taxation and coercion.

By: Erith Jaffe-Berg
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367879969
ISBN 10: 0367879964
Series: Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 12 December 2019
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Erith Jaffe-Berg is Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of California-Riverside, USA.

Reviews for Commedia dell' Arte and the Mediterranean: Charting Journeys and Mapping 'Others'

Much has been written about commedia dell'arte travel, but not nearly enough has been said about the transnational and multicultural work of this theater. Professor Jaffe-Berg's important study reads the performance texts (most especially the scenarios) historically and culturally. To connect the many Greeks, Armenians and Jews mentioned in the commedia documents with the commercial and cultural mediatio ns performed by these groups in the Mediterranean is extremely exciting. - Robert Henke, Washington University, St. Louis, USA Erith Jaffe-Berg expertly uses this rich and complex art form to engage with questions about the nature of the Mediterranean generally and the Italian peninsula specifically, and with certain thematic questions. - Nicholas D. Brodie, Hobart, Tasmania in Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, volume 33.1 (2016).