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.
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