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Much has been written about commedia dell'arte travel, but not nearly enough has been said about the transnational and multicultural work of this theater. Professor Jaffe-Berg's important study reads the performance texts (most especially the scenarios) historically and culturally. To connect the many Greeks, Armenians and Jews mentioned in the commedia documents with the commercial and cultural mediatio ns performed by these groups in the Mediterranean is extremely exciting. - Robert Henke, Washington University, St. Louis, USA Erith Jaffe-Berg expertly uses this rich and complex art form to engage with questions about the nature of the Mediterranean generally and the Italian peninsula specifically, and with certain thematic questions. - Nicholas D. Brodie, Hobart, Tasmania in Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, volume 33.1 (2016).

""Much has been written about commedia dell’arte travel, but not nearly enough has been said about the transnational and multicultural work of this theater. Professor Jaffe-Berg’s important study reads the performance texts (most especially the scenarios) historically and culturally. To connect the many Greeks, Armenians and Jews mentioned in the commedia documents with the commercial and cultural mediatio ns performed by these groups in the Mediterranean is extremely exciting."" - Robert Henke, Washington University, St. Louis, USA ""Erith Jaffe-Berg expertly uses this rich and complex art form to engage with questions about the nature of the Mediterranean generally and the Italian peninsula specifically, and with certain thematic questions."" - Nicholas D. Brodie, Hobart, Tasmania in Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, volume 33.1 (2016).

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Erith Jaffe-Berg is Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of California-Riverside, USA.

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