Baroque, Venice, Theatre, PhilosophyThis 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. |
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Adorno aesthetic allegorical Alvise Cornaro Aminta Angelo Beolco appears artistic audience baroque pastoral becomes Bilora Bomarzo Cardinal Carnevale chapter character Christ Church Colonna’s comedy commedia dell’arte created Deleuze Deleuze’s dialogue diarchic discipline dramaturgy Egginton event excess exterior Foucault Francesco Gaismair garden thinking God’s historical hortus conclusus identity individual interior internal difference Italian Jesuit theatre L’Aminta landscape Leibniz’s Lettera giocosa literary live Loyola mode Muir mystic nature neobaroque offered one’s Ortolani Ottonelli Padua Palazzo Ducale Palmio pastoral power path peasants Performance Philosophy perspective Piazza San Marco piú play poetic Poliphilo political present Renaissance Republic reveals Ruzzante Ruzzante’s scene scenic priest scenography Seconda Oratione sense shepherd Silvia sixteenth century social Society of Jesus soul space specific spectators Spiritual Exercises stage Tasso teatro del mondo territory theatre practice theatrical tion truth unfolds Valcamonica Valsanzibio Venetian Venetian Republic Veneto Venice Venice’s Villa Barco words Zorzi