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The Italian Renaissance produced a new type of stage comedy, experimental and even revolutionary in its time, by copying and updating the dramatic formats of Plautus and Terence from ancient Rome. These scripted comedies, first written and performed for private audiences, ranged in tone from sober moralism to scurrilous farce, and influenced European dramatists from Shakespeare to Molière and Lope de Vega. This book gives an account of how the new dramatic experiment was born and grew, moving from closed courtly audiences to a wider public. It examines the performing values of these scripts rather than their literary qualities, in order to demonstrate their links with improvised commedia dell'arte, and thus explores a crucial phase in the development of European theatre. It will be of interest to scholars and students in both theatre history and Italian studies.

Italian literature --- Drama --- anno 1500-1599 --- Italian drama (Comedy) --- -Italian drama --- -Theater --- -Renaissance --- Renaissance --- Revival of letters --- Civilization --- History, Modern --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Modern --- Humanism --- Middle Ages --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- History and criticism --- History --- -History --- Italian drama --- Theater --- History and criticism. --- -History and criticism --- -Italian drama (Comedy) --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Commedia erudita

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Prosodic analysis (Linguistics) --- Polyrhythm. --- Language and languages --- Rhythm. --- Cross-rhythm --- Musical meter and rhythm --- Multidimensional phonology --- Polysystemic phonology --- Prosodic phonology --- Speaking styles --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistics --- Phonetics --- Rhythm --- Phonology

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Bible --- Jewish religion --- Archeology --- Jerusalem

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A Theory of Contemporary Rhetoric describes, explains, and argues the overarching theory of contemporary rhetoric. This current view of rhetoric brings together themes in the communication arts, including political literary criticism; bi- and multi-lingualism; multimodality; framing as an artistic and sociological device for composition and interpretation; literacy in the digital age; and the division between fiction and 'non-fiction' in language/literature studies. Chapters explore the implications of rhetoric for particular aspects of the field. Discussions throughout the book pr

Rhetoric. --- Language and languages --- Style.