Five Comedies / / Carlo Goldoni; Gianluca Rizzo, Michael Hackett.

One of the first and most important Italian playwrights to move away from the commedia dell'arte tradition of improvisation, Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793) wrote more naturalistic "comedies of character" that featured the dialect and situations of everyday life in Venice.Five Comedies coll...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
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Physical Description:1 online resource (432 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Credits
  • Chronology
  • Introduction: The Theatrical Machine of Carlo Goldoni
  • The New House
  • The Coffee House
  • THE HOLIDAY TRILOGY: THREE COMEDIES
  • Off to the Country
  • Adventures in the Country
  • Back from the Country
  • Afterword: Goldoni Our Contemporary