Baroque, Venice, theatre, philosophy
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Baroque, Venice, theatre, philosophy
（Performance philosophy）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2017
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-256) and index
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Description
This book theorizes the baroque as neither a time period nor an artistic style but as a collection of bodily practices developed from clashes between governmental discipline and artistic excess, moving between the dramaturgy of Jesuit spiritual exercises, the political theatre-making of Angelo Beolco (aka Ruzzante), and the civic governance of the Venetian Republic at a time of great tumult. The manuscript assembles plays seldom read or viewed by English-speaking audiences, archival materials from three Venetian archives, and several secondary sources on baroque, Renaissance, and early modern epistemology in order to forward and argument for understanding the baroque as a gathering of social practices. Such a rethinking of the baroque aims to complement the already lively studies of neo-baroque aesthetics and ethics emerging in contemporary scholarship on (for example) Latin American political art.
Table of Contents
Introduction.- Part I. Baroque Pastoral.- Chapter 1. Garden Thinking and Baroque Pastoral.- Chapter 2. Pastoral Askew and Aslant.- Chapter 3. Jesuit Pastoral Theatre.- Part II. Discipline and Excess.- Chapter 4. Ruzzante Takes Place.- Chapter 5. The Enscenement of Self and the Jesuit 'Teatro del Mondo'.- Chapter 6. Baroque Diarchic Self.- Bibliography.- Index.
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