Theater and social marginality : the life of Raffaele Viviani

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Raffaele Viviani, was an artist who with his dramaturgy was able to extrapolate the most secluded and most overlooked aspects of the society, offering characters who lived on the margins of society, a disadvantaged class of persons that the author chose to talk about.

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[...] These were years of deprivation, but with his talent he could win the public habit of this kind. His sketches on stage wearing a jarring note with respect to the variety show, always cheerful and light, as they were loaded with an accent dramatic, tragic, marked with a keen sense of realism. The Art of Variety was made of immediacy, simultaneity and Viviani synthetic and it was an extraordinary performer, with its unique capacity to stage its presence through a crowd plebeian type propagated in detail, in an incomparable manner. [...]

[...] First published 1954- vols. Paris: Albin Michel (French) Dandrey, Patrick, ed. Dictionnaire des lettres françaises: Le XVIIe siècle. Collection: La Pochothèque. Paris: Fayard Prose: * (French) Adam, Antoine, ed. Romanciers du XVIIe siècle. (An anthology). Collection: Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. Paris: Gallimard (French) Coulet, Henri. [...]

[...] The cultural and social situation in which Viviani began to take its first steps was varied and difficult. The life of the city was still shaken by the experience of cholera '84. The most tragic phase of this period of crisis was that of May 1898, when Naples was struck by the reaction of the conservative bourgeoisie and General Umberto which thrust upon the populace's guns Beccaris Bava. The streets and squares were agitated by the crowd frightened and rebellious, and among these, surely, had to disperse our own, who knew closely those men, women, family tragedies and dramas, the hunger, "the hovels in which they slept eight in one room.” This consciousness of reality so bitter, in which he was immersed, exploded in his mind, his desire to become educated, to learn to read and write self-taught, in order to tell everyone to this pitiful truth, through his creations, from witness or protagonist. [...]

[...] Theater and social marginality : the life of Raffaele Viviani Table of Content i. Introduction ii. The life of Raffaele Viviani iii. Social marginality iv. Conduct v. Conclusion vi. Reference Introduction From'' The Theater of Raffaele Viviani between social marginality and theatrical game'' Serena Romano on custody a short extract around that fascinating line between drama and social reality The life of Raffaele Viviani "An artist of efficacy terrible evidence of pathetic," so Ferdinando Russo, dialect poet and journalist very close to him, called Raffaele Viviani. [...]

[...] Le roman jusqu'à la Révolution. Paris: Colin ISBN 2-200-25117-3 Poetry: (French) Allem, Maurice, ed. Anthologie poétique française: XVIIe siècle. Paris: Garnier Frères Theater: (French) Scherer, Jacques, ed. Théâtre du XVIIe siècle. (An anthology). Collection: Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. Paris: Gallimard, 1975. [...]