Commedia dell’arte and the Gate Theatre

This essay reveals the centrality of commedia dell’arte in defining the Gate’s theatrical style in the first four decades of its existence. In its theatricality, as well as its emphasis on the international and the queer, Hilton Edwards and Micheál mac Liammóir found the commedia dell’arte to be an...

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Main Author: Ian R. Walsh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies 2021-06-01
Series:Review of Irish Studies in Europe
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Online Access:http://risejournal.eu/index.php/rise/article/view/2649/2109