Changes in the Organisation of Theatre in Italy at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

Abstract

Two articles on Italian theatre at the beginning of the twentieth century, seen from two particular perspectives, both refer to the economic and business aspects of the theatre that has not been fully examined. Livia Cavaglieri examines the situation in Italy, the way in which the country experienced the radical transformation that invested Western theatre on an international level between the end of the nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth centuries. She adopts a point of view that is not neglected, but rather, generally looked down upon: the market.