The series Studi Teatrali aims to provide a space for publishing the results of scientific research and reflections on phenomena and artistic personalities of live performance, from past centuries to the present, highlighting their peculiarities and the processes of continuity/discontinuity in stage practices. The series, aware of how theatre and, more generally, the various forms of live performance are always closely interconnected with cultural history and contemporary reality, promotes studies capable of renewing the perception of the past, the present, and future perspectives, aiming to activate processes of critical reading or re-reading of phenomena, that take into account the relationships with the aesthetic and literary disciplines, as well as the impact on the collective imagination. The series is divided into «Essays» (volumes with a predominantly theoretical and historical-critical reflection), «Sources» (volumes based on historical, archival documentary research with a critical rereading of unpublished or rare data), and «Instruments» (volumes with a critical-methodological approach also designed for university teaching). The series intends to enhance the dialectic between the different forms of live performance, investigating them in the essential areas of stage writing, the actor, the author, the spectator, and the space, in a perspective open to the stimulating complexity and interdependence of performance genres.
The series is primarily aimed at a specialized audience of scholars in the field and, more broadly, at specialist readers interested in the realm of performance for its connections to literary, historical, artistic and philosophical themes related to the individual volumes. However, the division into three sections is also designed with university teaching in mind, particularly for master's and doctoral level education with an international focus. The majority of the members of the scientific committee are directly involved in the Unimi CRC “Altrescene” and in the interclass master's degree program in Theatre, Arts, and Literature. In this direction, the «Instruments» section aims to develop as a channel for open-access texts in English, targeting an audience of international students.
