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Convent Theatre in Early Modern Italy - Spiritual Fun and Learning for Women (Paperback)
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Convent Theatre in Early Modern Italy - Spiritual Fun and Learning for Women (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
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This book is a study of convent theatre in Italy, an all-female
tradition. Widespread in the early modern period, but virtually
forgotten today, this activity produced a number of talented
dramatists and works worthy of remembrance. Convent authors,
actresses and audiences, especially in Tuscan houses, the plays
written and produced, and what these reveal about the lives of
convent women, are the focus of this book. Beginning with the
earliest known performances of miracle and mystery plays (sacre
rappresentazioni) in the late fifteenth century, the book follows
the development in the convents at the turn of the sixteenth
century of spiritual comedy and of a variety of dramatic forms in
the seventeenth century. Convent theatre both reflected the high
level of literacy among convent women and contributed to it, and it
attested to the continuing close contact between the secular world
and the convents - even in the Post Tridentine period.
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