Drawing on published collections and manuscripts from Mantuan archives, this study locates commedia dell' arte as a performance form reflective of its cultural crucible in the Mediterranean. It provides a broad perspective on commedia dell' arte as an expression of cultural, gender and language communities in Italy during the early-modern period, and explores the ways in which the art form reflected on power and cultural exchange.
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Imagining the Mediterranean in early-modern performance. Tracing the Mediterranean journeys of the Innamorato in Commedia dell' Arte. Mediterranean cartographies of women in Commedia dell' Arte. After the laughter dies down middle eastern 'foreigners' in the Commedia dell' Arte. Jewish performances and the Commedia dell' Arte in early-modern Mantua.
