Pierrot in Petrograd: Commedia Dell'arte/ Balagan in Twentieth-Century Russian Theatre and Drama

by Douglas Clayton

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 metatheatre). He also analyses crucial texts by Gozzi, Lothar, Benavente, and Schnitzler that came to play a central role...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773511369
• ISBN13: 9780773511361
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"