[Production of accentuated personality traits in baroque opera : Opera buffa Arcifanfano-Re dei matti (1749)].

CONCLUSION: The opera Arcifanfano is essentially characterized by continuous madness. A typology of the fools can be worked out from the precise depiction of the personalities. A mirror is held up to the spectators in terms of vices, in the tradition of the contemporary baroque opera. At the same time, the opera can be classified psychiatrically and historically as a seismograph of its time when in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries people with mental illness were isolated and incarcerated.
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Source: Der Nervenarzt - June 28, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: Brunner J, Hirsch T, Steger F Tags: Nervenarzt Source Type: research