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Goldoni, Carlo - kärˈlō gōldôˈnē, 1707–93, Italian dramatist. He was enamored of comedy from childhood, having sketched his first comic drama at eight. He took a degree in law at Padua but thereafter devoted himself to the theater. He created a new Italian character comedy, considered artistically superior to the old commedia dell'arte. This

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Secret Sharers in Italian Comedy: From Machiavelli to Goldoni » Read Now
by Jackson I. Cope. 224 pgs.

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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...
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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. Cope's 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 Goldoni's villeggiatura trilogy. Secret Sharers in Italian Comedy establishes a new comedic canon that demands a revision of Italian dramatic history and the history of European dramatic theory.
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Three Comedies: The Fan, The Boors, and Mine Hostess » Read Now
by Carlo Goldoni. 296 pgs.

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...EDITOR: ARCHIBALD COLQUHOUN CARLO GOLDONI THREE COMEDIES No copies of...Warwick Square, London. E.C.4. CARLO GOLDONI THREE COMEDIES MINE HOSTESS...CONTENTS A NOTE ON CARLO...
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The Chief European Dramatists: Twenty-One Plays from the Drama of Greece, Rome, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, and Norway, from 500 B.C. to 1879 A.D. ("The Mistress of the Inn" by Carlo Goldoni begins on p. 503) » Read Now
by Brander Matthews. 786 pgs.

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Goldoni and the Venice of His Time » Read Now
by Joseph Spencer Kennard. 551 pgs.

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...MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO CARLO GOLDONI Portrait by G. B. Piazzetta...CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF CARLO GOLDONIS LIFE ix BIBLIOGRAPHY...319 CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY...
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Commedia Unbound, in American Theatre » Read Now
by Silvana Tropea. 2 pgs.

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World Drama from Aeschylus to Anouilh ("Gozzi and Goldoni" begins on p. 378) » Read Now
by Allardyce Nicoll. 1000 pgs.

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...GROWTH OF BOURGEOIS COMEDY page 371 The First Steps in England and France , p. 372 Gozzi and Goldoni , p. 378 The Awakening of the North: Holberg , p. 389 The Last Flickers...
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A Short History of Italian Literature ("Goldoni" begins on p. 319) » Read Now
by Robert A. Hall Jr. 434 pgs.

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Multicultural Writers from Antiquity to 1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook ("Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793)" begins on p. 144) » Read Now
by Alba Amoia, Bettina L. Knapp. 497 pgs.

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This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries for more than 100 world writers from antiquity to 1945, who were significantly influenced by cultures other than their own. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a brief biography, a discussion of multicultural themes and...
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This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries for more than 100 world writers from antiquity to 1945, who were significantly influenced by cultures other than their own. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a brief biography, a discussion of multicultural themes and contexts, a summary of the author's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The entries focus on the socio-historical circumstances that led to the author's exile, emigration, religious conversion, education, and travel or residence in a foreign country.
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Dictionary of Italian Literature ("Goldoni, Carlo" begins on p. 269) » Read Now
by Peter Bondanella, Julia Conaway Bondanella. 716 pgs.

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This revised and expanded edition of the only English dictionary of Italian literature covers the field from the Middle Ages to the present, includes new entries for contemporary authors, and provides current bibliographical information for all entries.
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The Feminist Encyclopedia of Italian Literature ("Goldoni, Carlo (1707-1793)" begins on p. 135) » Read Now
by Rinaldina Russell. 406 pgs.

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Over the last 20 years, there has been an increasing interest in feminist views of the Italian literary tradition. While feminist theory and methodology have been accepted by the academic community in the U.S., the situation is very different in Italy, where such work has been done largely outside...
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Over the last 20 years, there has been an increasing interest in feminist views of the Italian literary tradition. While feminist theory and methodology have been accepted by the academic community in the U.S., the situation is very different in Italy, where such work has been done largely outside the academy. Among nonspecialists, knowledge of feminist approaches to Italian literature, and even of the existence of Italian women writers, remains scant. This reference work, the first of its kind on Italian literature, is a companion volume for all who wish to investigate Italian literary culture and writings, both by women and by men, in light of feminist theory. Included are alphabetically arranged entries for authors, schools, movements, genres and forms, figures and types, and similar topics related to Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and summarizes feminist thought on the subject. Entries provide brief bibliographies, and the volume concludes with a selected, general bibliography of major studies.
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