Five Comedies (Lorenzo da Ponte Italian Library) - Hardcover

Carlo Goldoni

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1442650281 ISBN 13: 9781442650282

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2016

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793) was a leading eighteenth-century Venetian playwright. Brittany Asaro is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Literatures at the University of San Diego. Cesare de Michelis is emeritus professor of contemporary Italian literature at the University of Padua, and president of Marsilio Editori. Gianluca Rizzo is an assistant professor in the Department of French and Italian at Colby College. Michael Hackett is a professor in the Theatre Department at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1442650281
• ISBN 13: 9781442650282
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Gianluca Rizzo, Michael Hackett