Secret Sharers in Italian Comedy: From Machiavelli to Goldoni
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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 widespread 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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0822317605
ISBN13:9780822317609
Release Date:May 1996
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:232 Pages
Weight:1.18 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"
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