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10 - European Theater Scene

from Part II - Theater

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Franklin J. Hildy
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 77 - 83
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Further reading

Arnott, Peter D. An Introduction to the French Theatre. Totowa: Rowman and Littlefield, 1977.Google Scholar
Brockett, Oscar G., and Hildy, Franklin J.. History of the Theatre. 10th ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2008.Google Scholar
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Castagno, Paul C. Theatre Symposium. Vol. 4: Theatre Spaces and Dramatic Places: The Reemergence of the Theatre Building in the Renaissance. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1993.Google Scholar
Clayton, Tom, Brock, Susan, and Fornés, Vicente. Shakespeare and the Mediterranean. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2004.Google Scholar
Farrell, Joseph, and Puppa, Paolo, eds. A History of Italian Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.Google Scholar
Lawner, Lynne. Harlequin on the Moon: Commedia Dell’Arte and the Visual Arts. New York: Abrams, 1998.Google Scholar
Mulrune, J. R., and Shewring, Margaret. Theatre of the English and Italian Renaissance. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1992.Google Scholar
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Vince, Ronald. Renaissance Theatre: A Historiographical Handbook. Westport: Greenwood, 1984.Google Scholar
Williams, Simon, and Hamburger, Mark. A History of German Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.Google Scholar

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