For the sake of cleanliness and attempting to reign in an already over-wieldy collection of information, I have purposefully avoided keeping a constant citation system through these pages. Although I've occassionally listed links when I specifically sought new info, more often than not I've relied on my own past studies, teachings, or interests in these areas, or on summarizing and conflating information from numerous sources into a single narrative. Although this is certainly not "best practices" from a scholarship perspective, the duties of a dramaturg to his or her cast and production are inherently different than that of an academic author to an editor or readership.

 

That said, there are a few resources that I would have been lost without:

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* For Commedia illustrations, I greatly prefer (and have heavily utilized) the famed 19th Commedia prints of Maurice Sand.

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* Although there have been a number of notable academic texts on Commedia over the years (Mel Gordon's contributions being especially worthy of mention), for my money there is no greater single work than John Rudlin's renowned Commedia dell'Arte: an Actor's Handbook (Routledge, 1994). Whenever I'm faced with Antonio Fava saying one thing and Dell'Arte Int'l saying another, I always return to Rudlin.

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* My studies in Commedia over the years have been greatly aided by collaborations and workshops with Julie Goell (fmr instructor at Dell'Arte Int'l); numerous students and workshop presenters from Dell'Arte; numerous artists at the Celebration Barn Center for Physical Theatre; students of the great Antonio Fava; the circus and physical theatre performers of Theatre in the Open; and my own students as we tackeled and explored Commedia together for a semester at the beloved but now closed Chester College of New England.  Perhaps the artist who inspired me the most when it comes to Commedia, however, was Tim Shane and his Commedia Dell'Carte performance troupe. If there's info about Commedia on this site, it's a fair bet I stole it from either Rudlin or Shane. Although the troupe is no longer active, their website is a treasure trove of information and can still be found at http://shane-arts.com/commedia.html