Baroque, Venice, Theatre, Philosophy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • Will Daddario

   Pages 1-18

3. Baroque Pastoral

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Garden Thinking and Baroque Pastoral

      • Will Daddario

      Pages 21-50

   3. Pastoral Askew and Aslant: Ruzzante’s Historico-Theatrical Consciousness

      • Will Daddario

      Pages 51-77

   4. Jesuit Pastoral Theatre: The Case of Father Pietro Leon da Valcamonica

      • Will Daddario

      Pages 79-107

4. Discipline and Excess

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. Ruzzante Takes Place

      • Will Daddario

      Pages 111-158

   3. The Enscenement of Self and the Jesuit Teatro del Mondo

      • Will Daddario

      Pages 159-202

   4. Baroque Diarchic Self

      • Will Daddario

      Pages 203-246

5. Back Matter

   Pages 247-261

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This book theorizes the baroque as neither a time period nor an artistic style but as a collection of bodily practices developed from clashes between governmental discipline and artistic excess, moving between the dramaturgy of Jesuit spiritual exercises, the political theatre-making of Angelo Beolco (aka Ruzzante), and the civic governance of the Venetian Republic at a time of great tumult. The manuscript assembles plays seldom read or viewed by English-speaking audiences, archival materials from three Venetian archives, and several secondary sources on baroque, Renaissance, and early modern epistemology in order to forward and argument for understanding the baroque as a gathering of social practices. Such a rethinking of the baroque aims to complement the already lively studies of neo-baroque aesthetics and ethics emerging in contemporary scholarship on (for example) Latin American political art.

• Jesuit theatre
• Baroque philosophy
• Baroque Venetian theatre
• pastoral theatre
• baroque pastoral
• garden thinking
• Sacred Wood of Bomarzo
• garden of Valsanzibio
• Venetian class system
• contemporary philosophy
• medieval philosophy
• historiography
• early modern history

“Baroque, Venice, Theatre, Philosophy is a clearly written, closely argued, and carefully drawn study of the Italian baroque in historical (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries), architectural, and metaphorical space and time.” (Spencer Golub,Theatre Journal, Vol. 71 (4), December, 2019)

“A worthy addition to the Jesuit theater bookshelf.” (Kevin J. Wetmore, Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 5, 2018)

• Independent Scholar, Asheville, USA

  Will Daddario

Will Daddario is Co-Editor with Karoline Gritzner of Adorno and Performance (2014) and with Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca of Manifesto Now! Instructions for Performance, Philosophy, Politics (2013). He is the Chair of the Performance and Philosophy Working Group within Performance Studies international and a founding member of the international network Performance Philosophy.

Policies and ethics