Secrets Sharers in Italian Comedy.: From Machiavelli to Goldoni.

Language: English

Published by Duke University Press, 1996

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221 p. Lediglich der Schutzumschlag ist leicht berieben. Sonst aber ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar/ Only the dust jacket is slightly rubbed. Otherwise, however, a good and clean copy. - CONTENT: Introduction i Il Padano to II Veneto Siena: Piccolominis Dialogo and the Ro^i Rusticali Florence Il manco male: Maggis Meneghino in Milan Goldoni Afterword on Secrecy and Literary Genres Notes. Modern vernacular comedy took shape in early sixteenth-century Italy with the many plays adapted from and modeled on Plautine New Comedy. As Jackson I. Cope demonstrates in this study, some Italian dramatists reacted to the wide-spread success of this genre with a counterparadigm, a comedy that exploits secrecy as form. In both historically and critically engaging fashion, Cope identifies and examines this major development in Italian theater. Though outwardly similar to New Comedy with its characteristically harmoni-ous closure, this essentially anti-Plautine form employs a secretknown by the audience but unequally shared among the playersto introduce a radical discrepancy between simultaneous stories unfolding in a single action doubly understood. The result is a plot that is misleading at the surface, contingent and unfinished at its end. The audience, in a position of enforced collusion with regard to the secret, becomes a formal ingredient in the production. The play, more cynical than carnivalesque, opens onto vistas of disruption and deception rather than closing on a note of renewed social harmony. Copes close and original readings of both classic and lesser-known plays by Machiavelli, Ruzante, Cecchi, Grazzini, Fagiuoli, Maggi, and others follow this peculiarly Italian, anti-Plautine paradigm through variations across three centuries to its masterful and complex culmination in Carlo Goldonis villeggiatura trilogy. Secret Skarers in Italian Comedy establishes a new comedic canon that demands a revision of Italian dramatic history and the history of European dramatic theory. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.…

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Title
Secrets Sharers in Italian Comedy.: From Machiavelli to Goldoni.
Author
Cope, Jackson I.:
Publisher
Duke University Press
Publication year
1996
Condition
Sehr gut
Dust jacket
Dust Jacket Included
Binding
Hardcover with dust jacket.
Language
English
Item weight
550 grams
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