Italian Method of Drammatica


 

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The Italian Method of La Drammatica: Its Legacy and Reception

edited by Anna Sica,

Mimesis Edizioni, 2014; pp. 1-242

The volume  includes the long and complex investigation to identify the Italian acting-code system of the drammatica used by nineteenth-century Italian actors such as Adelaide Ristori, Giovanni Grasso, Tommaso Salvini, Eleonora Duse. In particular, their acting inspired Stanislavsky who reformed twentieth-century stage. The declamatory code of the drammatica was composed by symbols for notation of voice and gesture which Italian actors marked in their prompt-books. The discovery of the drammatica’s code sheds new light on nineteenth-century acting.

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