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Carlo Goldoni | Brittany Asaro | Cesare de Michelis

Five Comedies

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A02=Brittany Asaro
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Author_Brittany Asaro
Author_Carlo Goldoni
Author_Cesare de Michelis
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781442650282
  • Weight: 840g
  • Dimensions: 165 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Mar 2016
  • Publisher: University of Toronto Press
  • Publication City/Country: CA
  • Product Form: Hardback
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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.
About Carlo Goldoni | Brittany Asaro | Cesare de Michelis
Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793) was a leading eighteenth-century Venetian playwright. Gianluca Rizzo is the Paul D. and Marilyn Paganucci Associate Professor of Italian Language and Literature at Colby College. Michael Hackett is a professor in the Theatre Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. Michael Hackett is a professor in the Theatre Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. 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.