Music and Women of the Commedia dell'Arte in the Late-Sixteenth Century

Special import

Estimated despatch time 2 - 4 weeks

Preface
1. Prologue
2. Turn About is Fair Play
3. Behold, Now there are Amazons of Learning
4. The Politics of Description
5. Epilogue
Library Sigla
Chronology
Transcriptions
Bibliography
Index

About
Reviews
Explore

About

Music and the Commedia dell'Arte narrates the story of the most famous commedia dell'arte troupe of the late Renaissance, focusing in particular on the representation of women on stage and on the role of music-making in their craft. In its thorough integration of the fields of music history, theatre history, performance studies, women's studies and Classics, this is the first comprehensive analysis of the leading actresses of the Compagnia dei Gelosi and their contributions to the Renaissance stage. Including an extensive survey of documents concerning comedians, their patrons, colleagues and audiences, Music and the Commedia dell'Arte provides a rich context for the study of musical-theatrical performance before the advent of opera and re-defines our perceptions of women, music and theatre in the Renaissance.

Reviews

Early Music Review

Much of this is in evidence in Anne MacNeil's intriguing study of the Commedia dell'arte, a book that makes an important contribution to our understanding of musical theatre, gender and genre at the northern Italian courts just before and during opera's gestational period

Book

Contents

Download queue