{"id":1505,"date":"2014-04-15T12:13:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T12:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecpr.org.uk\/?post_type=product&p=1505"},"modified":"2014-04-15T12:49:39","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T12:49:39","slug":"the-venetian-origins-of-the-commedia-dellarte","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/thecpr.org.uk\/product\/the-venetian-origins-of-the-commedia-dellarte\/","title":{"rendered":"The Venetian Origins of the Commedia Dell’Arte"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Venetian Origins of the Commedia dell’Arte is a striking new enquiry into the late-Renaissance stirrings of professional secular comedy in Venice, and their connection to the development of what came to be known as the Commedia dell’Arte. The book contends that through a symbiotic collaboration between patrician amateurs and plebeian professionals, innovative forms of comedy developed in the Venice region, fusing ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture in a provocative mix that had a truly mass appeal. Rich with anecdotes, diary entries and literary – often ribald – comic passages, Peter Jordan’s central argument has important implications for the study of Venetian art, popular theatre and European cultural history.<\/p>\n\n\n