@article{1435375,
      author = {McMahan, Matthew J.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1435375},
      title = {Border-crossing and comedy at the Théâtre Italien,  1716-1723 /},
      abstract = {How do nationalized stereotypes inform the reception and  content of the migrant comedians work? How do performers  adapt? What gets lost (and found) in translation?  Border-Crossing and Comedy at the Theatre Italien,  1716-1723 explores these questions in an Early Modern  context. When a troupe of commedia dellarte actors were  invited by the French crown to establish a theatre in  Paris, they found their transition was anything but easy.  They had to learn a new language and adjust to French  expectations and demands. This study presents their story  as a dynamic model of coping with the challenges of  migration, whereby the actors made their transnational  identity a central focus of their comedy. Relating their  work to popular twenty-first century comedians, this book  also discusses the tools and ideas that contextualize the  border-crossing comedians workincluding diplomacy,  translation, improvisation, and parodyacross time. Matthew  McMahan is the Assistant Director of the Center for Comedic  Arts at Emerson College, USA, where he teaches the history  of comedy, sketch, and improvisation.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70071-3},
      recid = {1435375},
      pages = {1 online resource},
}