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Pierrot in Petrograd: Commedia dell'Arte/ Balagan in Twentieth-Century Russian Theatre and Drama by Douglas Clayton (Hardcover, 1994)

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Commedia dell'arte was an essential ingredient of the revolution in Russian art in the early 20th century. During this period artists sought inspiration in surprising places - icon painting, primitive art, and (in the theatre) circus, music-hall, and commedia dell'arte . The devices and motifs of Italian improvisational theatre played a central role in overcoming theatrical realism and naturalism and formed a basis for a new and expressive theatricality. Douglas Clayton examines the tradition of commedia dell'arte as the Russian modernists inherited it, from its origins in Italian street theatre through its various transformations: in Italy (Gozzi and Goldini's plays); in France (the development of Pierrot and the restructuring of the plot); and in Germany (Tieck's and Hoffmann's meta-theatre). He also analyzes crucial texts by Gozzi, Lothar, Benavente and Schnitzler that came to play a central role in the Russian theatre. Tracing the history of commedia dell'arte on the Russian stage, he demonstrates that the introduction of the tradition was theory-driven and discusses several milestone productions in the pre- and post-revolutionary period. Clayton examines the impact of commedia dell'arte , Russified as the new theatrical genre of balagan, on both popular and lesser-known Russian playwrights, and, in conclusion, explores the significance of the commedia dell'arte as a theoretical underpinning for Sergei Eisenstein's theories of theatre and film. Pierrot in Petrograd , which includes translations of five short plays and commedia-style scenarios, should be of particular interest to students of Russian drama and theatre.

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McGill-Queen's University Press
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9780773511361
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Pierrot in Petrograd: Commedia Dell'arte/ Balagan in Twentieth-Century Russian Theatre and Drama
Author
Douglas Clayton
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Hardcover
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English
Topic
Literary Theory
Publication Year
1994
Number of Pages
400 Pages

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Canada

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