Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Table of Contents XIII
4. I. Definition of the Commedia dell’arte 1
5. II. Origin of the Commedia dell'arte: I. The Mountbanks 21
6. III. Origin of the Commedia dell'arte, Continued: II. The Academies 67
7. IV. Some Typical Scenarios 103
8. V. The Commedia dell’arte in Foreign Countries, 16th and 17th Centuries: France, Germany and Austria, Spain 141
9. VI. The Commedia dell’arte in Elizabethan and Jacobean England 170
10. VII. The Transformation of the Commedia dell’arte 200
11. Appendix A: Scenarios 240
12. Appendix B: Relations Between English and Italian Drama in the 16th, 17th and 18th 246
13. Bibliography 255
14. Index 280