Baroque Venice Theatre Philosophy

This 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.