Convent Theatre in Early Modern Italy
Convent Theatre in Early Modern Italy
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This study shows how theater was an important feature of convent life from the early fifteenth century, probably in all of Catholic Europe and its colonies. For this study, mainly devoted to Tuscany, the author has found an extensive corpus of theatrical works of convent provenance, which argues for the widespread practice of theater in the convents. She traces its chief characteristics--what the nuns' own writings tell us about their literacy and that of their audiences, and how their lives and work intersect with secular society and literary culture.
- Brings in focus the topic of convent theatre in Italy
- Draws on unusual and rare archives in which the author has discovered many talented women dramatists and their works
- Shows a high level of culture and literacy among Italian nuns during the early modern period
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"[An] important contribution to the history of theater, the history of monasticism, and women's studies...This volume should be found in all college and university libraries." Religious Studies Review
Product details
August 2007Paperback
9780521039024
324 pages
228 × 151 × 16 mm
0.488kg
17 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Notes on texts and translations
- Introduction
- 1. Renaissance culture in Italian convents, 1450–1650
- 2. The convent theatre tradition
- 3. Plays and playwrights: the earliest examples
- 4. Spiritual comedies in the convents
- 5. From manuscript to print, from the convent to the world
- 6. Beyond Tuscany
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index.
