Amateurs meet professionals: theatrical activities in late sixteenth-century Italian Academies

This chapter explores the complex and still obscure relationship between Italian literary academies, which often engaged in amateur theatricals, and professional actors who formed part of the new theatrical companies (commedia dell’arte) which emerged on the theatrical scene at around the same time. By exploring particularly the cases of Adriano Valerini, Isabella Andreini and her son Giovan Battista Andreini, it is argued that some academies by the end of the sixteenth century showed greater openness to comici and particularly to female virtuose. This would lead at the start of the following century to changes in the relation between professionals and amateurs, especially where academies themselves became more hybrid.

Jane Montgomery Griffiths’ Theatrical Poetics

An interview with Jane Montgomery Griffiths regarding her theatrical adaptation of Dorothy Porter’s verse novel Wild Surmise (2002).

Clown, o avesso de si : uma análise do clownesco na pós-modernidade

A partir das novas configurações da sociedade contemporânea, esta dissertação tem como objetivo principal analisar como o clown (ou palhaço) habita a cultura pós-moderna, fazendo ver e reverberar o seu potencial de clínica e a inseparabilidade entre palco e vida. Tratamos o clown como caso-pensamento e como figura que foi apropriada pelo imaginário social, com uma história de transgressões, o que permite que se diga ser ele produtor dos "avessos" a partir da perspectiva do humorismo. Além disso, é considerado como um devir que se espalha no cotidiano da cidade. A sociedade pós-moderna (e a cultura) é percebida como dada pelas transformações do capitalismo mundial, onde há uma multiplicidade de escolhas e achatamento da experiência subjetiva. Baseados na experiência da pesquisadora, entrevistas com profissionais e análise de espetáculos clownescos, passamos a entender como pode estar atuando o clown hoje (que se faz na exposição dos ridículos de si mesmo) e sua importância clínica numa cultura onde o glamour de um espetáculo serve cada vez mais para vender sabonetes.

A Cia. La Mínima e a comicidade no espetáculo A Noite dos Palhaços Mudos

Pós-graduação em Artes - IA

National Values and Theatrical Values. The Battle of the Siege de Calais (1765)

This article underscores the complex relationship between national concerns and dramatic criticism by interrogating the role of theatre in the creation of a 'national culture' during the last few decades of the Ancien regime. The author focuses more specifically on the forms of patriotism proposed by Pierre-Laurent De Belloy, author of Le Siege de Calais, France's "first tragedy in which the nation is given the pleasure to take an interest in itself," as well as by his adversaries and his allies. The version of patriotism proffered by De Belloy - a 'fatherland' that he defines as both bourgeois and monarchical - renders problematic several aesthetic and political norms in place in 1765. The author thus responds modestly to one of the most essential questions posed by research on eighteenth-century political and cultural history: how did patriotism operate before the French Revolution?

Michael Altmann als Dr. Sinn, Szenenfoto, Brustbild, in: Schule mit Clown, Frankfurt a. M.: Schauspiel, 1977

Signatur des Originals: S 36/F08069

Costume du Clown Footis, Nouveau Cirque, 1890, Figurine

Signatur des Originals: S 36/G02648

The gentleman and lady's key to polite literature, or, A compendious dictionary of fabulous history : containing the characters, and principal actions, ascribed to the heathen gods, goddesses, heroes, &c. and the manner in which the ancients represented the deities & heroes ... : intended for the assistance of those who would understand mythology, poetry, painting, statuary and theatrical entertainments, and particularly adapted to the use of Latin and French schools.

Frontispiece signed "Le Pautre." Engraved title-page.