THE ITALIAN STAGE AND THE THEATRICALITY OF ITALIAN EVERYDAY CULTURE ARE CRUCIAL FEATURES IN ROMANTIC-PERIOD DESCRIPTION AND EVALUATIONS OF ITALY. WHAT A COUNTRY PUTS ON STAGE IN THEATRES LARGE AND SMALL, AS WELL AS WHAT IT PERFORMS IN ITS STREETS, PLACES OF WORSHIP, AND PARLOURS IS PART OF ITS IDENTITY, CUSTUMS, AND BELIEFS. IN ADDITION, ROMATIC-PERIOD WRITERS RECOGNIZE AND CELEBRATE THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE THEATRE TO THE CREATION OF A NATIONAL IDENITY. WITHIN THE WIDER CONTEXT OF THE "GRAND TOUR", THIS ESSAY DISCUSSES THE THEATRE AND THEATRICALITY OF ITALY AS PERCEIVED, CONSTRUED, AND ASSESSED BY BRITISH TRAVELES BETWEEN THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH AND THE BEGINNING OF NINETEENTH CENTURIES. THROUGH THE TRAVAL ACCOUNTS OF MRS. PIOZZI, LEIGH HUNT, LADY MORGAN, LORD BYRON AND MANY OTHERS, IT DEMONSTRATES HOW, FOR ROMANTIC-PERIOD COMMENTATORS, ITALIAN THEATRE AND THEATRICALITY BECAME A SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ARENA WHICH MATTERED NOT SO MUCH FOR THE ARTISTIC QUALITY OF WHAT WAS OFFERED ON STAGE, BUT RATHER AS SPACES ON TO WHICH INTELLECTUALS COULD PROJECT THEIR OWN PRECONCEPTIONS AND PREOCCUPATIONS.
Il saggio affronta sia il teatro italiano che la teatralità della cultura quotidiana italiana, come caratteristiche cruciali nelle descrizioni della penisola da parte dei viaggiatori britannici nel corso del Romanticismo
Theatre and theatricality in British Romantic constructions of Italy
CRISAFULLI, LILLA MARIA
2005
Abstract
THE ITALIAN STAGE AND THE THEATRICALITY OF ITALIAN EVERYDAY CULTURE ARE CRUCIAL FEATURES IN ROMANTIC-PERIOD DESCRIPTION AND EVALUATIONS OF ITALY. WHAT A COUNTRY PUTS ON STAGE IN THEATRES LARGE AND SMALL, AS WELL AS WHAT IT PERFORMS IN ITS STREETS, PLACES OF WORSHIP, AND PARLOURS IS PART OF ITS IDENTITY, CUSTUMS, AND BELIEFS. IN ADDITION, ROMATIC-PERIOD WRITERS RECOGNIZE AND CELEBRATE THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE THEATRE TO THE CREATION OF A NATIONAL IDENITY. WITHIN THE WIDER CONTEXT OF THE "GRAND TOUR", THIS ESSAY DISCUSSES THE THEATRE AND THEATRICALITY OF ITALY AS PERCEIVED, CONSTRUED, AND ASSESSED BY BRITISH TRAVELES BETWEEN THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH AND THE BEGINNING OF NINETEENTH CENTURIES. THROUGH THE TRAVAL ACCOUNTS OF MRS. PIOZZI, LEIGH HUNT, LADY MORGAN, LORD BYRON AND MANY OTHERS, IT DEMONSTRATES HOW, FOR ROMANTIC-PERIOD COMMENTATORS, ITALIAN THEATRE AND THEATRICALITY BECAME A SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ARENA WHICH MATTERED NOT SO MUCH FOR THE ARTISTIC QUALITY OF WHAT WAS OFFERED ON STAGE, BUT RATHER AS SPACES ON TO WHICH INTELLECTUALS COULD PROJECT THEIR OWN PRECONCEPTIONS AND PREOCCUPATIONS.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
