[PDF.73ij] Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance

Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance

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 | #1201641 in Books |  Johns Hopkins University Press |  2003-05-28 |  2003-05-28 | Original language:Italian | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.77 x6.00l,1.08 | File type: PDF | 368 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Fun|By Peter Smallhill|A good selection of comedies from early sixteenth century Italy, including plays by the ever-sharp Aretino and the brilliant Machiavelli. All are lively and entertaining, with frequent plot twists reminiscent of Hollywood screwball comedies from the 1930s and 40s. The characterizations, and the behavior of the characters, are true to life.

I| ||"The translations of these bold and sometimes bawdy Italian imitations of raucous Latin comedy are readable and playable." (Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance)

|"The five plays chosen for this volume represent some of the finest, and mo

At the turn of the sixteenth century, Italian playwrights rediscovered and recast an old art form―the ancient Latin comedy―to create witty, ribald, and intricately plotted plays that delighted Renaissance audiences with their clever reversals of gender and class roles. Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance brings together the best of these works in lively new translations by Laura Giannetti and Guido Ruggiero, who also place the comedies in their cultural and...

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