Dante’s Performance: Music, Dance, and Drama in the “Commedia”

Francesco Ciabattoni

Open Access Veröffentlicht von De Gruyter 2024

Dante’s Performance

Music, Dance, and Drama in the “Commedia”

Francesco Ciabattoni

Band 116 der Reihe Mimesis

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111406497

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Through an historical and philological lens, this book explores passages from Dante’s Commedia which reveal elements inspired byprocessions, pageants, liturgical drama, psalm singing, or dance performance. The sacred poem finds influence in medieval theories of the performing arts as well as actual performances which Dante would have seen in churches or town squares. Dante’s Performance opens a new perspective from which to consider the Commedia: Dante expected his contemporary readers to recognize references to and echoes of psalms, sacred plays, and performative practices. Twenty-first-century readers are tasked with reconstructing a cultural framework which allows us to grasp those same textual references.

From the dramatization of the harrowing of hell in Inferno IX, to Beatrice’s celebratory return on top of Mount Purgatory, to the songs of the blessed, this study connects Dante’s language to coeval theoretical and practical texts about performance.

If hell is "the Middle Age’s theatrum diaboli," purgatory stages a performed purification through songs and acting, while paradise offers the spectacle of blessed spirits within the heavenly spheres as an aid to human understanding (Par. IV 28–39).

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Francesco Ciabattoni is Full Professor and Term Professor in Italian Literature, and Director of Global Medieval Studies Program at Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA.

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Frontmatter Open Access PDF downloaden	I
Acknowledgments Open Access PDF downloaden	VII
Contents Open Access PDF downloaden	IX
Note about the Texts Open Access PDF downloaden	XI
List of Illustrations Open Access PDF downloaden	XIII
Introduction Open Access PDF downloaden	1
Chapter one. Medieval Theatre before and up to Dante Open Access PDF downloaden	13
Chapter two. Dialogue, Drama and Carnival in the Inferno Open Access PDF downloaden	57
Chapter three. Liturgical Drama in the Purgatorio Open Access PDF downloaden	97
Chapter four. Dancing in the Afterlife Open Access PDF downloaden	137
Chapter five. Theatre, Dance, and Polyphony in the Paradiso. Open Access PDF downloaden	189
Conclusions Open Access PDF downloaden	236
Bibliography Open Access PDF downloaden	239
Index Open Access PDF downloaden	262

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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: De Gruyter
Copyrightjahr: 2024
Zielgruppe: Literary scholars, Dante scholars, medievalists, Italianists, musicologists, scholars of early drama and theater
Seiten
- Frontmatter: 13
- Inhalt: 269
Abbildungen
- Farbige Abbildungen: 18
Schlagworte: Dante Alighieri; Italienische Literatur; Mittelalterliche Literatur; Musikwissenschaft

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Veröffentlicht: 6. August 2024
ISBN: 9783111406497

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