TY  - GEN
N2  - 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.
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-030-70071-3
DO  - doi
AB  - 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.
T1  - Border-crossing and comedy at the Théâtre Italien, 1716-1723 /
AU  - McMahan, Matthew J.,
ET  - 1st ed.
CN  - PN2049
ID  - 1435375
KW  - Theater and society
KW  - Actors
KW  - Italian drama (Comedy)
KW  - French drama (Comedy)
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Théâtre et société
KW  - Acteurs
KW  - Comédie italienne
KW  - Comédie française
KW  - Émigration et immigration
SN  - 9783030700713
SN  - 3030700712
TI  - Border-crossing and comedy at the Théâtre Italien, 1716-1723 /
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-70071-3
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