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Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies

University of Connecticut

2023

Commedia dell’Arte

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Commedia Dell’Arte: The Mechanisms Of Othering, Olly Crick Jan 2023

Commedia Dell’Arte: The Mechanisms Of Othering, Olly Crick

Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects

This chapter proposes that the dramaturgic flexibility within historical Commedia dell’Arte was predicated on a performance methodology that demanded a changing pattern of othering, depending on the class, economic strength and region of their audiences.