Natalie Crohn Schmitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1530285 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natalie Crohn Schmitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natalie Crohn |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmitt |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMITT N C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Moscow State University of Technologies and Management named after K.G. Razumovskiy |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Befriending the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala
The most important theatrical movement in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe, the commedia dell’arte has inspired playwrights, artists, and musicians including Molière, Dario Fo, Picasso, and Stravinsky. Because of its stock characters, improvised dialogue, and extravagant theatricalism, the commedia dell’arte is often assumed to be a superficial comic style. With Befriending the Commedia dell’Arte of Flaminio Scala, Natalie Crohn Sc…
Il finto negromante
In 1611, during what is called the golden age of commedia dell'arte, 1570–1630, Flaminio Scala published the only collection of scenarios to have been printed during the seventeenth century. Recently Robert Henke has invited close examination of these scenarios by asserting that they are "sophisticated and detailed dramaturgical machines." I provide evidence to defend this view with a close study of one of the scenarios, Il finto negromante (The …
Commedia dell'Arte
Commedia dell'arte, performance improvised upon a scenario by itinerant Italian professional players from the mid‐sixteenth to the late eighteenth century, has continued to live on in memory primarily due to the extensive iconography of it. Commedia dell'arte widely influenced the arts of the twentieth century. And presently a considerable number of performance groups are inspired by it. Increasingly scholars have discovered and learned to make u…
Actors and Onlookers
Casting the Audience
In the fall of 1989, Steve Nelson published an article in TDR in which he concluded that environmental theatre today attempts to cater to a more withdrawn and voyeuristically inclined audience than that of the I960s and early '70s and, therefore, leaves the barrier between actor and spectator intact. Today's environmental theatre, he concluded, may move the fourth wall around a bit, but no one is put up against or through it(Nelson 1989:93). In t…
Actors and Onlookers
This is the first detailed and analytic study of the revolutionary impact of contemporary scientific views of nature on contemporary postmodern theater in all its aspects -directing, scripting, producing, and acting. Natalie Schmitt centers her analysis on the opposition between the philosophical system of Aristotle, which for centuries anchored Western concepts of theater, and the non-systematic theorizing of John Cage, whose formulations most c…
Theatre and Children's Pretend Play
There are a number of reasons why children's pretend play should be of interest to those in theatre. As our definition of theatre changes to include non-literary theatre and performance art, children's pretend play can be seen as theatrical activity, or at least as a paratheatrical activity as worthy of attention as are the religious ceremonies and popular entertainments currently being analyzed by those in theatre. To renew and justify our theat…
Intimations of Immortality
It has often been observed that At the Hawk's Well (1917) marks a stylistic turning point in William Butler Yeats's career. But the relationship between the style and the meaning of the play has been largely ignored, perhaps because such influential critics as Richard Ellmann have assumed that the meaning of the play is expressed explicitly in the lines with which the chorus ends the play in the original prose draft: Accursed the life of man-betw…
Ecstasy and Insight in Yeats
Commedia dell'Arte
Commedia dell'arte, performance improvised upon a scenario by itinerant Italian professional players from the mid‐sixteenth to the late eighteenth century, has continued to live on in memory primarily due to the extensive iconography of it. Commedia dell'arte widely influenced the arts of the twentieth century. And presently a considerable number of performance groups are inspired by it. Increasingly scholars have discovered and learned to make u…
Actors and Onlookers
This is the first detailed and analytic study of the revolutionary impact of contemporary scientific views of nature on contemporary postmodern theater in all its aspects -directing, scripting, producing, and acting. Natalie Schmitt centers her analysis on the opposition between the philosophical system of Aristotle, which for centuries anchored Western concepts of theater, and the non-systematic theorizing of John Cage, whose formulations most c…
Theatre and Children's Pretend Play
There are a number of reasons why children's pretend play should be of interest to those in theatre. As our definition of theatre changes to include non-literary theatre and performance art, children's pretend play can be seen as theatrical activity, or at least as a paratheatrical activity as worthy of attention as are the religious ceremonies and popular entertainments currently being analyzed by those in theatre. To renew and justify our theat…
Ecstasy and Insight in Yeats
Intimations of Immortality
It has often been observed that At the Hawk's Well (1917) marks a stylistic turning point in William Butler Yeats's career. But the relationship between the style and the meaning of the play has been largely ignored, perhaps because such influential critics as Richard Ellmann have assumed that the meaning of the play is expressed explicitly in the lines with which the chorus ends the play in the original prose draft: Accursed the life of man-betw…
Theatre and Children's Pretend Play
There are a number of reasons why children's pretend play should be of interest to those in theatre. As our definition of theatre changes to include non-literary theatre and performance art, children's pretend play can be seen as theatrical activity, or at least as a paratheatrical activity as worthy of attention as are the religious ceremonies and popular entertainments currently being analyzed by those in theatre. To renew and justify our theat…
Actors and Onlookers
This is the first detailed and analytic study of the revolutionary impact of contemporary scientific views of nature on contemporary postmodern theater in all its aspects -directing, scripting, producing, and acting. Natalie Schmitt centers her analysis on the opposition between the philosophical system of Aristotle, which for centuries anchored Western concepts of theater, and the non-systematic theorizing of John Cage, whose formulations most c…
Casting the Audience
In the fall of 1989, Steve Nelson published an article in TDR in which he concluded that environmental theatre today attempts to cater to a more withdrawn and voyeuristically inclined audience than that of the I960s and early '70s and, therefore, leaves the barrier between actor and spectator intact. Today's environmental theatre, he concluded, may move the fourth wall around a bit, but no one is put up against or through it(Nelson 1989:93). In t…
Actors and Onlookers
Commedia dell'Arte
Commedia dell'arte, performance improvised upon a scenario by itinerant Italian professional players from the mid‐sixteenth to the late eighteenth century, has continued to live on in memory primarily due to the extensive iconography of it. Commedia dell'arte widely influenced the arts of the twentieth century. And presently a considerable number of performance groups are inspired by it. Increasingly scholars have discovered and learned to make u…
Il finto negromante
In 1611, during what is called the golden age of commedia dell'arte, 1570–1630, Flaminio Scala published the only collection of scenarios to have been printed during the seventeenth century. Recently Robert Henke has invited close examination of these scenarios by asserting that they are "sophisticated and detailed dramaturgical machines." I provide evidence to defend this view with a close study of one of the scenarios, Il finto negromante (The …
Befriending the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala
The most important theatrical movement in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe, the commedia dell’arte has inspired playwrights, artists, and musicians including Molière, Dario Fo, Picasso, and Stravinsky. Because of its stock characters, improvised dialogue, and extravagant theatricalism, the commedia dell’arte is often assumed to be a superficial comic style. With Befriending the Commedia dell’Arte of Flaminio Scala, Natalie Crohn Sc…
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