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Berlin: Guglielmo Wittich, 1826 .Bound with Abhandlung uber die comodie aus dem stegreif un die Italianische masken. Berline: Ludwig Wilhelm Wittich , 1826. 4to, half red levant and red linen covered boards; gilt decorated spine. Joints worn; text pages and the paper of the final two plates browned. Twenty superb and colored plates of characters and scenes of the commedia dell'arte, including Pantalone, Arlecchino, Smeraldina and a male and female Pulcinella (who evolved into the Punch of English Punch and Judy shows). An important text, complete in Italian and German as called for. "Comedy of the craft of improvisation" with masked types in specific roles in travelling companies performing on outside stages with minimal props. Begun in Italy in the 16th century and popular in Germany after the publication of Goethe's Romische Carneval in 1789. This improvised acting became a professional theatrical form with an established repertoire. Women's roles were played by women, which was standard on the…
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Tratatto Su La Commedia Dell'arte, Ossia Improvvisa. Maschere Italiane, Ed Alcune Scene Del Carevale Di Roma
by Valentini, Francesco
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Père Ubu
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Paris: Georges Crès Fine copies in original pictorial wrappers preserved in handsome custom clamshell case of black cloth with gilt-lettered spine and front cover in red leather. Vollard has adopted his friend Alfred Jarry's satirical figure, Père Ubu, in these short plays, mocking the absurdity of World War I. Jarry, dead at the age of 34 in 1907, was a link between the 19th century and the early 20th century avant-garde, influencing the Theater of the Absurd, Duchamp, the Surrealists, Rouault, Max Ernst, and William Kentridge. He coined the term and concept of pataphysics: the science and philosophy of the absurd, using irony and whimsey to examine imaginary phenomena and symbolic truths. LE PÈRE UBU À L'HOPITAL. Two copies: Paris: "Cette Petite Tragédie N'est Pas Mise dans le Commerce", 1917, and Paris: Éditions Georges Crès, 1918. Both with cover, frontispiece, and title page vignette (black in 1917 and red in 1918) by Pierre Bonnard. LE PÉRE UBU À L'AVIATION. Paris: Georges Crès. 1918.…
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