Staging “Euridice”: Theatre, Sets, and Music in Late Renaissance Florence. Tim Carter and Francesca Fantappiè. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xxx + 252 pp. $99.99

[...]as the authors stress, it has mainly been the subject of theoretical investigation, regarded as an academic exercise: a precedent anticipating the successful season of artists such as Claudio Monteverdi. [...]scholars have not considered Euridice as a production intended for the mise-en-scene: they have mostly ignored the collective contribution of poets, musicians, and artists, and underestimated the complex processes of transposing text and music to the stage. [...]the problems that the new acting style (stile rappresentativo) imposed on its creators and technicians have not been thoroughly considered. Euridice is now offered to scholars from various historical disciplines (such as art, literature, architecture, music, and theater) through the lens of stage practice, which allows for more reliable hypotheses than festival books, usually compiled prior to the event.