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Honorable Mention, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies This book examines the theater of narration, an Italian performance genre and aesthetic that revisits historical events of national importance from local perspectives, drawing on the rich relationship between personal experiences and historical accounts. Incorporating original research from the private archives of leading narrators—artists who write and perform their work—Juliet Guzzetta argues that the practice teaches audiences how ordinary people aren’t simply witnesses to history but participants in its creation. The theater of narration emerged in Italy during the labor and student protests, domestic terrorism, and social progress of the 1970s. Developing Dario Fo and Franca Rame’s style of political theater, influenced by Jerzy Grotowski and Bertolt Brecht, and following in the freewheeling actor‑author traditions of the commedia dell’arte, narrators created a new form of popular theater that grew in prominence in the 1990s and continues to gain recognition. Guzzetta traces the history of the theater of narration, contextualizing its origins—both political and intellectual—and centers the contributions of Teatro Settimo, a performance group overlooked in previous studies. She also examines the genre’s experiments in television and media. The first full-length book in English on the subject, The Theater of Narration leverages close readings and a wealth of primary sources to examine the techniques used by narrators to remake history—a process that reveals the ways in which history itself is a theater of narration.

Italian drama --- History and criticism. --- Performing arts

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Authors, Italian --- Italian drama --- History and criticism. --- Manzoni, Alessandro,

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Comment l'Histoire s'écrit-elle derrière les rideaux de scène ? Quels processus créatifs les auteurs mettent-ils en œuvre pour lui donner voix et corps dans le présent singulier, réel et fictif à la fois, de la représentation théâtrale ? De tout temps, les « poètes » dramatiques ont cherché à problématiser l'histoire sur les scènes, mais rarement avec autant d'intensité qu'au XIXe siècle, alors que dans l'Europe entière se pose la question des nationalités. L'Italie en construction n'échappe pas à ce questionnement. Dès la fin du XVIIIe siècle, la scène théâtrale italienne devient le lieu privilégié où s'invente l'idée de la patrie unie, et où se fabrique une histoire du Risorgimento. S'y affirme d'abord la volonté de trouver dans les grands événements de l'histoire passée de la péninsule les fondements d'une idée commune de la « nation ». S'y construit également, au fil des luttes armées et des interventions politiques menant à l'unité, à travers l'émergence de formes spectaculaires non académiques et la mise en question des grands « mythes » risorgimentali, une historiographie particulière où se mêlent célébration, témoignage, mémoire et interprétation. La commémoration du bicentenaire de l'Unité en 2011 a été l'occasion de revenir sur ce pan méconnu de l'histoire du théâtre italien que certains appellent scena risorgimentale. À la lumière des débats historiographiques suscités par cette commémoration, les contributions réunies dans ce volume envisagent les diverses modalités d'écriture dramatique et scénique qui ont accompagné la formation de l'unité italienne tout au long des XIXe et XXe siècles, et celles qui, aujourd'hui encore, quand les identités nationales sont partout questionnées, continuent d'explorer la mémoire de l'un des moments les plus complexes de l'histoire de la péninsule.

Theater --- Italian drama --- History --- History and criticism --- Italy --- théâtre --- histoire et théâtre --- théâtre italien --- Risorgimento

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Italian cinemas after the war were filled by audiences who had come to watch domestically-produced films of passion and pathos. These highly emotional and consciously theatrical melodramas posed moral questions with stylish flair, redefining popular ways of feeling about romance, family, gender, class, Catholicism, Italy, and feeling itself. The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama argues for the centrality of melodrama to Italian culture. It uncovers a wealth of films rarely discussed before including family melodramas, the crime stories of neorealismo popolare and opera films, and provides interpretive frameworks that position them in wider debates on aesthetics and society. The book also considers the well-established topics of realism and arthouse auteurism, and re-thinks film history by investigating the presence of melodrama in neorealism and post-war modernism. It places film within its broader cultural context to trace the connections of canonical melodramatists like Visconti and Matarazzo to traditions of opera, the musical theatre of the sceneggiata, visual arts, and magazines. In so doing it seeks to capture the artistry and emotional experiences found within a truly popular form. Key Features * Connects less established areas of research such as popular neorealism to more well-known subjects such as domestic melodrama * Provides an analysis of cineopera or opera film * Helps to pioneer the area of popular Italian cinema * Contributes to both Italian Studies and Film Studies

Motion pictures --- Melodrama in motion pictures. --- Melodrama, Italian. --- Italian melodrama --- Italian drama --- History.

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The commedia dell'arte, the improvised Italian theatre that dominated the European stage from 1550 to 1750, is arguably the most famous theatre tradition to emerge from Europe in the early modern period. Its celebrated masks have come to symbolize theatre itself and have become part of the European cultural imagination. Over the past twenty years a revolution in commedia dell'arte scholarship has taken place, generated mainly by a number of distinguished Italian scholars. Their work, in which they have radically separated out the myth from the history of the phenomenon remains, however, largely untranslated into English (or any other language). The present volume gathers together these Italian and English-speaking scholars to synthesize for the first time this research for both specialist and non-specialist readers. The book is structured around key topics that span both the early modern period and the twentieth-century reinvention of the commedia dell'arte.

Commedia dell'arte --- Theater --- Comic literature --- Literature, Comic --- Acting --- Comedy --- Farce --- Italian drama (Comedy) --- Improvisation (Acting) --- History. --- History and criticism.