Part Two - Case Studies
Published 2019-03-14
How to Cite
Ciancarelli, R. (2019). Visions of the City in Seventeenth-Century Roman Popular Theatre. Journal of Early Modern Studies, 8, 173–188. https://doi.org/10.13128/JEMS-2279-7149-24886
Abstract
The extraordinary circulation of comic scripts (texts, manuscripts, scenarios and zibaldoni) in seventeenth-century Rome allows us to observe the profiles of a ‘self-referential theatre’ that involved citizens, amateur actors and authors, and depicts clear images of milieus, conventions and habits of the city.