Theatre iconography: An introduction

Theatre Research International

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 185-189

  Erenstein, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 61449108615     PISSN: 03078833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0307883300016990     Document Type: Editorial

References (22)

1. See Cesare Molinari, 'About Iconography as a Source for Theatre History', unpublished lecture, Istituto Internazionale per la Ricerca Teatrale, Venice, 1991, pp. 1-2.
2. See Franco Ruffini, 'Restauro e iconografia dell'attore', Quaderni di Teatro, VII, 28 (May 1985), pp. 9-18.
3. On the actor's portrait and the aesthetics developed in the eighteenth century for capturing the moment in actors' portraits, see Maria Ines Aliverti, Il ritratto d'attore nel Settecento francese e inglese (Pisa: ETS, 1986)
4. and Shearer West, The Image of the Actor: Verbal and Visual Representation in the Age of Garrick and Kemble (London: Pinter, 1991).
5. See D. Barnett, 'The Performance Practice of Acting: The Eighteenth Century. Part V: Posture and Attitudes', Theatre Research International, 6, 1 (1980-81), pp. 1-31.
6. See the interesting 'Presentazione' by Cesare Molinari in the special issue 'Teatro e arti figurative', Quaderni di Teatro, 14, 1981.
7. See, for example, Tadeusz Kowzan, 'Iconographie-iconologie théâtrale: le signe iconique et son référent', Diogène, No. 130 (April-June 1985), pp. 51-68;
8. Aliverti, Il ritratto d'attore, pp. 24-32;
9. Maria Ines Aliverti, 'Per una iconografia della Commedia dell'arte', Teatro e Storia, IV, 1 (April 1989), pp. 71-88;
10. M.A. Katritzky, 'Italian Comedians in Renaissance Prints', Print Quarterly, IV, 3 (1987), pp. 236-54;
11. M.A. Katritzky, 'Lodewyk Toeput: Some Pictures Related to the Commedia dell'arte', Renaissance Studies, 1, 1 (1987), pp. 71-125;
12. Renzo Guardenti, 'Il dipinto dei 'Farceurs françois et italiens' e le immagini dei divi', Biblioteca Teatrale, 11 (1989), pp. 1-22;
13. Bent Holm, 'King, Carnival and Commedia: Images in the Copenhagen Fossard Collection', Nordic Theatre Studies, 4 (1991), pp. 110-31;
14. M.A. Katritzky, 'Eight Portraits of Gelosi Actors in 1589?', Theatre Research International, 21, 2 (Summer 1996), pp. 108-20.
15. E.H. Gombrich, 'The Evidence of Images', in Charles S. Singleton, ed., Interpretation: Theory and Practice, The Johns Hopkins Humanities Seminars, VIII (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 1969), p. 97.
16. The study group consisted of Robert L. Erenstein (University of Amsterdam), Thomas F. Heck (Ohio State University), M.A. Katritzky (Wimbledon School of Art), Frank Peeters (University of Antwerp), and Lyckle de Vries (University of Groningen).
17. Important Dutch-language articles by Hummelen in which iconography plays a key role include Inrichting en gebruik van het toneel in de Amsterdamse Schouwburg van 1637, Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, afd. Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, Deel LXXIII, No. 3 (1967)
18. and Amsterdams toneel in het begin van de Gouden Eeuw ('s-Gravenhage: Nijhoff, 1982).
19. Articles published in English: 'Illustrations of Stage Performances in the Works by Crispijn de Passe the Elder (c. 1560-1637)', in Essays on Drama and Theatre: Liber Amicorum Benjamin Hunningher (Amsterdam: Moussault, 1973), pp. 67-84;
20. 'Types and Methods of the Dutch Rhetoricians' Theatre', in C. Walter Hodges, S. Schoenbaum & Leonara Leone, eds., The Third Globe: Symposium for the Reconstruction of the Globe Playhouse: Wayne State University, 1979 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1981), pp. 133-48
21. and 'The Boundaries of the Rhetorician's Stage', Comparative Drama, 28 (1994), pp. 235-51.
22. See, for example, Torben Krogh, Musik og Teater (Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1955).