Eduardo Scarpetta à l'heure française. La transposition du vaudeville à Naples ou la réécriture d'un modèle

In the aim of providing a descriptive analysis of a borrowing case involving a modification of the theatrical canon, this study examines the case of the Neapolitan author and comedian Eduardo Scarpetta (1853-1925), whose repertoire partly constitutes a Neapolitan reproduction of the Parisian comic theatre produced between the late 1800 and the early 1900 (Alfred Hennequin, Alexandre Bisson, Georges Feydeau, among others). Indeed, the very scale of the borrowing imposed by the dramatist on the Neapolitan stages leads to a rather radical evolution of the local traditional comic genre, going from the character of Pulcinella to the bourgeois show.