The course will focus on the analysis of particular aspects of the Italian theater of the nineteenth century and on the knowledge of the authors and texts that characterized the first half, as well as on the diffusion by the great actors of this repertoire in Italy, in Europe and above all in the new World. The Americas, in fact, constituted an incredibly receptive landing place for Italian dramaturgy and for its textuality in the original language. The Grand'attori configured themselves, in that temporal juncture, as authentic "passeurs" of the pen and the scene who had the merit of spreading romantic writings and the suggestive modalities of Italian acting first in the Old Continent and then in the United States, in America Latin and even in Oceania and Africa. They dared to stage Dante, Manzoni, Alfieri in Italian but also the labors of little-known contemporary playwrights such as Camma, tragedy in three acts by Giuseppe Montanelli, La creola della Luigiana, comedy in 5 acts by Alberto Nota, Amor ch'a nullo amato amar perdona, a one-act comedy by Luigi Suñer; and again Sister Teresa by Luigi Camoletti, Francesca da Rimini by Silvio Pellico, Pia de 'Tolomei by Carlo Marenco with a success of overwhelming proportions.
