Archive, History, Quick-change, Plays, Book Reviews Cheryl Stapleton Archive, History, Quick-change, Plays, Book Reviews Cheryl Stapleton

Issue 11, Spring 2025

Contents:

  1. SIMON CALLOW on COMMEDIA – by Simon Callow

  2. Low, Vulgar and Naughty: Mark Ravenhill Does Commedia – by Cheryl Stapleton

  3. The Rise of Quick-Change: From Commedia to Record Breaking Transformation– by Cheryl Stapleton

  4. From the Archive:Album-Ricordo del Duttoùr Balanzòn– by Barry Grantham & Cheryl Stapleton

  5. Book Review: M. J. McMahan’s Border-Crossing and Comedy at the Théâtre Italian, 1716-1723 – by Olly Crick

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Masks, History, Articles, Book Reviews, Commedia, Research Cheryl Stapleton Masks, History, Articles, Book Reviews, Commedia, Research Cheryl Stapleton

Issue 10: Winter 2023/24

Contents:

  1. Introducing Issue 10 of Zannizine

  2. Commedia dell’Arte: One Name, Many Meanings (Antonio Fava)

  3. Keeping the Commedia Banner Flying (Barry Grantham)

  4. Commedia around the World: The Power of Commedia dell’Arte in Malta (Sir Narcy Calamatta)

  5. Madame Maintenon & The Commedia dell’Arte (Barry Grantham)

  6. Book Review - Antonio Fava’s The Comic Mask in the Commedia dell’Arte (Cheryl Stapleton)

  7. Stage Craft – Part III (Barry Grantham)

  8. From the Archive - John A. Cross’ ‘20 Commedia dell’Arte Scenarios from the 1570s‘ (Jay Cross)

  9. Commedia dell’Arte: un nome, più significati (in Italian (Antonio Fava)

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Issue 9: Spring/Summer 2023

Contents:

1. Introducing Issue 9 of Zannizine

2. Cyril W. Beaumont: A Recollection (Barry Grantham)

3. Dance in Commedia – Part I (Bill Tuck)

4. Cyril W. Beaumont: An Appreciation (Barry Grantham)

5. Choreographing Callot (Klaus Abromeit)

6. Cyril W. Beaumont and Cecil Sharp (Bill Tuck)

7. The Changing Fortunes of Mr Punch (Bill Tuck)

8. Stage Craft – Part II (Barry)

9. Book Reviews:

i. John Rudlin’s “The Metamorphoses of Commedia dell’Arte, or Whatever Happened to Harlequin” (Olly Crick)

ii. The collected articles in “Commedia dell’Arte in Context”, editor Balme (Bill Tuck)

10. Ends and Odds: Highlights from World Commedia Day, 25 February 2023 (Cheryl Stapleton)

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