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Book SynopsisThe Italian comedy "Commedia dell'arte", an improvised performance art that flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries, vanished leaving few traces. What remains are some manuscript collections of plot outlines, and this work offers bilingual access to the largest collection of scenarios.
Trade Review...the most exciting collection of commedia scenarios available in English (and, in the case of this edition, also in Italian)....a resource of surpassing quality....Scarecrow, is to be congratulated on their foresight in encouraging such an enormous and lavish project. The thoroughness of this one-of-a-kind project is breathtaking...an essential addition to any library.... * Journal Of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol. XVII, No. 1 (Fall 2002) *
...a publication of enormous significance....a wonderful resource that will enable much future scholarship and practice. * Theatre Survey, Vol. 45, No. 1 (May 2004) *
...this addition has no equal.... * Music & Letters, Vol. 85, No. 3 (2004) *
...groundbreaking...a key source text....this collection is of enormous value....offers a rich new field of investigation.... * Annali D'Italianistica, Vol. 21 (2003) *
Anne Goodrich Heck and Thomas Heck merit special praise for their impeccable translations, their attention to detail, and their respect for the integrity of the original texts. -- Costanza Gislon Dopfel * ECCB: The Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography *
