La teoria della recitazione: Dall'antichità al Settecento

by Claudio Vicentini

From the introduction to the english version: "Tracing the history of acting theory from antiquity to the eighteenth century, then, means performing the trajectory leading to our contemporary perception of theatre performance. But more than this, it means recognizing a singular adventure for Western civilization as it attempted to come to grips with an intellectually elusive phenomenon, to decode it with the help of conceptual apparatus calibrated on the traits of other activities similar but not identical to acting, and ultimately to recode it within a concept – embodying and representing a character – which was destined to become hard-wired not simply into all considerations of the art of the actor, but the infinite behavioral modes of acting in human relations, on the social stage."

365 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2012