The Italian Theatre - From Its Beginning To The Close Of The Seventeeth Century
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THE ITALIAN THEATRE- FROM ITS BEGINNING TO THE CLOSE OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY by JOSEPH SPENCER. Originally published in 1931. FOREWORD: A HISTORY of the Italian Theatre should mean more than a study of important Italian plays. It should reflect the successive phases of the Italian social conscience, and through the succeeding centuries of the national evolution, depict the changing life of the Italian people. Such a theatre presumes to photograph life, not omitting its crudities and cruelties. It will also interpret the national character, and portray the historical background. It is also the theatre of psychology, presenting the struggle between the flesh and the spirit, the losing and win ning of Mansoul. It is also the teatro di poesia, wherein reality is transformed by the poet into drama. More even than all this its stage is the world, since the church, the civilization, the liter ature of Western Europe, of which the theatre is a part, are all of Italian origin. To compass adequately, within a few hundred printed pages, a subject so vast, so varied, is impossible. For the privilege of saying a little, the author has been obliged to omit much, to com press more, and sometimes, perhaps, to appear dogmatic and superficial. To my wife, for her constant help and encouragement, to the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge for this distinguished example of the printer s art, and their unfailing courtesy and to those others who have been helpful, I am grateful. . s. K. Ne w Tork November, 1931. Contents include: CHAPTER I PAGE 3 THE ORIGIN OF THE ITALIAN THEATRE, CLASSICAL AND CHRISTIAN The pagan Roman theatre as one of the sources of the Italian theatre, a comparison of the Greek and Roman theatre with reference to the benefits and liabilities result ing from the imitation of Greek art Native Latin drama the satura, satire, and atellanai Latin poets important for their influence upon the Italian theatre Plautus, Terence, and Seneca Antagonism of the early Christ
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