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Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom and Revenge
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Edward Kritzler
Mask Arts Company
, January 01, 2012
Read this book three times. It give an amazing account of history of this very important time period. During the time of the Pirates of the Caribbean they had the most open and democratic form of government on the planet. True there was killing and take ships. But they were attacking Spain who took property from everyone who did not think exactly like them. And the Grand Inquisitor of Spain had hoods just like the KKK. It is about the smart fight for freedom and very brave people who had nothing to loose.
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The Commedia Dell'arte in Naples: A Bilingual Edition of the 176 Casamarciano Scenarios
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Cotticelli, Francesco
Mask Arts Company
, October 15, 2009
This is the best book on the Southern Commedia dell'Arte that I've seen and the best new book published on the Commedia dell'Arte as of September 2009. It is different from the Northern tradition of the Commedia dell'Arte, which most people are familiar, Scenarios of the Commedia dell'Arte. The authors/translators have excellent reputations and the forward can be a book on its own covering Commedia dell'Arte history, the translation and finding these scenarios. What is also lovely about this book is that you do not have an expert telling you what Southern Commedia dell'Arte was. Rather here is a book where you can read for yourself the scenarios they performed. The English translation is excellent, as they have tried to be as exact as possible preserving some of the fine detail of the structure of the scenarios that make it great for performers, directors and teachers. I use it in our school Roving Classical Commedia University,as it is great for teaching scenario work and getting a handle on the Southern Commedia dell'Arte and how it is different from the Northern. The authors also encourage institutions to try to perform these scenarios and do not ask for a royalty fee if you're an educational institution. They would like you to send them a video of your performance. There is one wonderfully frustrating things about these scenarios. Often in the scenarios, it refers to a character doing his or her lazzi. We have no idea what those lazzi's were, but they wrote it for their use and not for ours. Some characters can be unfamiliar, so recommend you buy an excellent English and Italian dictionary (a cheap paperback Italian dictionary will not cut it). Looking up the names of the characters, the translation will give you a window into many of these Southern Commedia characters. This is an excellent-valued two-volume set. They also include several pages of the original handwritten scenarios.
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