“Pensare il teatro” (Thinking the Theatre). Theatre Life and the Work of the Historians in the 1980s
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Raimondo Guarino
Roma Tre University
Abstract
In 2024, Titivillus published Pensare il teatro (Thinking the Theatre), edited by Roberto Cuppone; the book presents, for the first time, a collective work originally circulated in 1987 as a preprint for the Ph.D. in Performing Arts Studies at the University of Bologna, signed by Fabrizio Cruciani, Claudio Meldolesi, Franco Ruffini, and Ferdinando Taviani. In this contribution, I offer information and reflections regarding this significant collective scholarly endeavour, linking it to the trends and debates surrounding the historian’s work in the 1980s, as well as to its theatrical contexts (the Santarcangelo di Romagna festival, the ISTA - International School of Theatre Anthropology) and to the founding of the journal «Teatro e Storia» in 1986.
Keywords
theatre history, historiography, theatre studies, theatre practices
Raimondo Guarino
Raimondo Guarino has taught theatre studies at the universities of Cagliari and Bologna, and is Full Professor in Roma Tre, where he is currently the Research Coordinator for the Performing Arts section of the Department of Philosophy, Communication, and Performing Arts. His publications include the books La tragedia e le macchine (1982), Teatro e mutamenti. Rinascimento e spettacolo a Venezia (1995), Il teatro nella storia (2005), Shakespeare. La scrittura nel teatro (2010), and Beyond Books and Plays: Cultures and Practices of Writing in Early Modern Theatre (2019, co-edited with Lene Buhl Petersen).