Of this second root Dario Fo he speaks of a true alternative culture to the official one: although widespread as an idea, some scholars such as Giovanni Antonucci [it] do not agree in considering it as such. In this regard, see Antonucci, Giovanni (1995). Storia del teatro italiano (in Italian). Newton Compton Editori. pp. 10–14. ISBN978-8838241604.
Among the first to adopt an attitude of transversal analysis in the study of the theatre is Mario Apollonio [it], a theatrical historian to with a different approach from the school of Benedetto Croce, who saw in the theatre the supremacy of written word and in its effect on the spectator an interest sociological. Apollonius focuses on the spoken and acted word, thus including in the analysis of the theatrical phenomenon a completely different meaning: interdisciplinary, which also had to grasp the weapons necessary to face and understand the subject in other fields of study.
Here too the opinions differ: if some (such as Giovanni Antonucci [it]) see in the sacred representation an evolution of the Umbrian-Abruzzese lauda dramatica, others (see the works and studies of Paola Ventrone) recognize original outcomes and diversified experiences.
