Commedia dell'arte reading list

Andrews, Richard, Scripts and Scenarios: The Performance of Comedy in Renaissance Italy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993

Cairns, Christopher, ed ., The Commedia Dell'Arte from the Renaissance to Dario Fo, Lampeter,  Edward Mellen Press,1989

Duchartre, Pierre Louis, The Italian Comedy, Dover Publications, 1966

Grantham, Barry, Playing Commedia: A Training Guide to Commedia Techniques, London, Nick Hern, 2000

Green, Martin, and John Swan, The Triumph of Pierrot: The Commedia dell'arte and the Modern Imagination, revised edn., Pennsylvania,  Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993

Henke, Robert, Performance and Literature in the Commedia dell’arte, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Richards, Kenneth, and Laura Richards, The Commedia dell'arte: A Documentary History, Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1990)

Rudlin, John, Commedia dell'Arte: An Actor's Handbook, London: Routledge, 1994

Rudlin, John, Commedia dell’Arte: A Handbook for Troupes, London, Routledge, 2001

Thacker, Jonathan, Role-play and the World as Stage in the Commedia, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2002

Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950

From 19 May 2012 the V&A celebrates the opening of the newly renovated Fashion Galleries with an exhibition of beautiful ballgowns, red carpet evening dresses and catwalk showstoppers.

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Green Tortoishell Reading Glasses (1.5)

Green Tortoishell Reading Glasses (1.5)

This range of quirky, fun reading glasses are designed for wearers who demand distinctive, high quality glasses.

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Event - Subsidy, Patronage & Sponsorship : Theatre and Performance Culture in Uncertain Times

Thu 19 July 2012–Sat 21 July 2012

CONFERENCE: The V&A and the University of Reading are organising an international conference related to the major AHRC project, ‘Giving Voice to the Nation': the Arts Council of Great Britain and the development of theatre and Performance in Britain 1945-1995.

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