Condition: Good. Farces, Italian Style.
Seller: Lazy Letters Books, Market Rasen, United Kingdom
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Small closed tear to front cover, else crisp and tight. Owner's details to first page. Playscripts.
Published by Personabooks 0932456-02-2, Oakland
ISBN 10: 0932456022 ISBN 13: 9780932456021
Seller: Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
[0932456-02-2] 1981, 2nd printing. (4to paperback) Very good. 86pp. Photographs. The spine is faded, there is a previous bookseller's sticker on the front cover, and pages 19-23 are a bit soiled. "The scarcity of commedia dell'arte plays in English is surprising when one recalls that commedia flourished for as long as two to three hundred years, and that farce is fun. But the dearth is less surprising when one remembers that this semi-improvisational theatre form used stock characters and a narrow range of plots, neither of which lessened its fun but did lessen the need for written texts" - from the Introduction. Book about Commedia Dell'arte & Italian Comedy. Adapted by Bari Rolfe. (Theater, Comedy, Drama, Theater).