Five Comedies:

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 collects...

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1. Verfasser: Goldoni, Carlo 1707-1793 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Asaro, Brittany 1984- (MitwirkendeR), De Michelis, Cesare 1943-2018 (VerfasserIn eines Nachworts), Hackett, Michael 1950- (HerausgeberIn), Rizzo, Gianluca (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Toronto University of Toronto Press [2017]
Schriftenreihe:Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
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Zusammenfassung: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 collects a selection of Goldoni’s finest plays, annotated and translated into English: The New House, The Coffee House, and "The Holiday Trilogy" (Off to the Country, Adventures in the Country, and Back from the Country). Editor Michael Hackett provides an introduction to Goldoni and his performance tradition for directors, actors, and designers, revealing the masterful construction of Goldoni’s plays, while an afterword by Cesare de Michelis carefully reconstructs the playwright’s life and times
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Jan. 23, 2017). 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 Description 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 collects a selection of Goldoni's finest plays, annotated and translated into English: The New House, The Coffee House, and "The Holiday Trilogy" (Off to the Country, Adventures in the Country, and Back from the Country). Editor Michael Hackett provides an introduction to Goldoni and his performance tradition for directors, actors, and designers, revealing the masterful construction of Goldoni's plays, while an afterword by Cesare de Michelis carefully reconstructs the playwright's life and times
Beschreibung:1 online resource
ISBN:9781442622715
DOI:10.3138/9781442622715

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