List of Figures
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: Form, Dramaturgy and Content of Early Commedia dell’Arte
1. The First Professionals
2. Elements of Form: Characters and Dramatic Actions
3. Elements of Form: The Scenario, Lazzi, Improvisation
4. Commedia dell'Arte and Ottonelli's Theology
Part 2: Innovations in the 18th Century
5. From Scenario to Script: Riccoboni and Goldoni
6. Riccoboni's Commedia of Civic Responsibility
7. The Commedia dell'Arte in Goldoni's Reform
8. Gozzi's Fable Form: A New Horizon of Expectations
Part 3: Adaptations and Revivals
9. Commedia dell'Arte and Grotesque Dance: Gregorio Lambranzi
10. Pulcinellate and Harlequinades
11. Commedia dell'Arte in the Opera Libretto
12. Continuity and Transformation in the 20th Century
References
Index