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Mapping Artistic Networks' provides a new critical overview of the circulation of the Italian theatre and opera across Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Performed as an extension of imperial celebrations, coronations, weddings, and masquerades, Italian theatre and opera provided scripts for the representation of political power and became an expressive metonym for the Bourbon monarchs, Austrian Habsburgs, Saxon electors in Poland, and Prussian rulers. They employed theatre as a political tool that magnified their victories and fashioned their courts as theatre and made theatre part of their courts. From Munich to Vienna, from Madrid to St Petersburg, from Dresden to Stockholm, there was seldon a court that did not employ Italian-born artists, musicians, singers, and theatre engineers. 0The volume furnishes valuable information and substantive new analysis on both Italian plays and operas performed throughout various European courts and the mobility of theatre professionals. The essays critically assess how the italianità, the notion we use in the sense of the image of otherness that Europeans wished to assimilate and musical style, were defined but also challenged through the productions of Italian theatre and opera abroad and their encounters with national traditions. The collection aims to contribute to a broader discussion of cultural transfer and transmission of artistic practices in music and theatre, and migrations of artists and texts across the continent, while also exploring for the first time the East and North of Europe.

Théâtres --- Music --- anno 1700-1799 --- Europe --- Théâtres --- Opera --- Theater --- Italian drama --- Opera companies --- Singers --- Actors --- Opéra --- Théâtre --- Théâtre italien --- Troupes d'opéra --- Chanteurs --- Acteurs --- History and criticism. --- History --- Histoire et critique. --- Histoire --- 1700-1799 --- Italy

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"The Dramaturgy of the Spectator: pioneers a shift in the way we think about theatre audience as both theoretical concept and historical phenomenon by examining the metomorphosis of spectators from an uncritical mass of early modern theatre-goers to an Enlightenment audience of experts and critics. This study argues for a gradual change in the self-conception of the spectatorship during the two"golden" centuries of Italian dramatic literature, outlining the dramatic strategies by which theatre called into being an adjusting audience capable of both aesthetics and political analysis. The author shows that, contrary to expectations, the public's progressive centrality to the theatre helped to create rather than hinder the playwrights's self-assertion and expression. At the same time, the discussion moves beyond spectatorship per se to consider a range of cultural assumptions and practices. These include the emergent public sphere, the power structures and social and cultural politics in Italy."--

Italian drama --- History and criticism. --- To 1799 --- Italy. --- art. --- audience. --- drama. --- dramaturgy. --- history of the theatre. --- italian history. --- italian literature. --- italian theatre. --- literature. --- performance studies. --- public sphere. --- spectators. --- theatre studies.

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In Dramatic Experience: The Poetics of Drama and the Early Modern Public Sphere(s) Katja Gvozdeva, Tatiana Korneeva, and Kirill Ospovat (editions.) focus on a fundamental question that transcends the disciplinary boundaries of theatre studies: how and to what extent did the convergence of dramatic theory, theatrical practice, and various modes of audience experience — among both theatregoers and readers of drama — contribute, during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, to the emergence of symbolic, social, and cultural space(s) we call ‘public sphere(s)’? Developing a post-Habermasian understanding of the public sphere, the articles in this collection demonstrate that related, if diverging, conceptions of the ‘public’ existed in a variety of forms, locations, and cultures across early modern Europe — and in Asia.

Theatrical science --- drama [literature] --- anno 1500-1799 --- Theater. --- Theater audiences. --- Audiences, Theater --- Theater --- Theatergoers --- Performing arts --- Theater attendance --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Acting --- Actors --- Audiences --- history --- drama --- Theater and society. --- History