Border-Crossing and Comedy at the Theatre Italien, 1716-1723 Hardback
by Matthew J. McMahan
Part of the Transnational Theatre Histories series
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How do nationalized stereotypes inform the reception and content of the migrant comedian’s work?
How do performers adapt? What gets lost (and found) in translation? Border-Crossing and Comedy at the Théâtre Italien, 1716-1723 explores these questions in an early modern context.
When a troupe of commedia dell’arte actors were invited by the French crown to establish a theatre in Paris, they found their transition was anything but easy.
They had to learn a new language and adjust to French expectations and demands.
This study presents their story as a dynamic model of coping with the challenges of migration, whereby the actors made their transnational identity a central focus of their comedy.
Relating their work to popular twenty-first century comedians, this book also discusses the tools and ideas that contextualize the border-crossing comedian’s work—including diplomacy, translation, improvisation, and parody—across time.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:264 pages, 2 Illustrations, color; 6 Illustrations, black and white; XV, 264 p. 8 illus., 2 illus. i
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:31/03/2021
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- ISBN:9783030700706
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:264 pages, 2 Illustrations, color; 6 Illustrations, black and white; XV, 264 p. 8 illus., 2 illus. i
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:31/03/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9783030700706
