The Comic Mask in the Commedia Dell’arte: Actor Training, Improvisation, And the Poetics of Survival

Italian actor, playwright, director, teacher, and mask maker Fava explains a method for understanding and practicing a living form of theater that has been given up for dead by book-bound scholars and practitioners. Being improvisational, he says, Commedia dell-Arte is as much a genre of training than of performance. There is no index. No publication data is cited for the Italian original La Maschera Cominca nella Commedia dell’Arte. The English translation was first published in 2004 by ArscomicA. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)