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The scruffy scoundrels (Gli straccioni) / Annibal Caro ; translated with an introduction and notes by Massimo Ciavolella and Donald Beecher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caro, Annibal, 1507-1566.
- Series:
- Carleton Renaissance plays in translation.
- Carleton Renaissance plays in translation
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Italian fiction.
- Italian literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (126 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1980.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Scruffy Scoundrels by Annibal Caro offers the student, scholar, and general reader a sixteenth-century masterpiece in modern English translation. From one vantage point, The Scruffy Scoundrels would appear to be no more than a series of unrelated scenes and sketches grouped around a highly conventionalized and loosely structured love plot: the arrival of Pilucca and Tindaro in Rome abounding in topical references; the appearance of the two ragged brothers so arbitrarily related to the rest of the events of the play; the love squabble between two servants that leads to Nuta’s memorably comic invective; the stock farcical routines of the Mirandola episodes; the long pathetic tale of Tindaro so little of which actually takes place on the stage. There is a sense, however, in which each scene contains its own ethos and milieu and hails from a particular comic genre, each with its own topoi and character types. This efficient management of plot is simply a measure of Caro’s comic genius.
- Contents:
- ""THE SCRUFFY SCOUNDRELS""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Life""; ""Literary Production""; ""History of the Text""; ""The Play""; ""Plot""; ""Characters""; ""The Language""; ""A Note on the Translation""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""Notes to the Introduction""; ""THE SCRUFFY SCOUNDRELS""; ""Dramatis Personae""; ""Prologue""; ""ACT I""; ""ACT II""; ""ACT III""; ""ACT IV""; ""ACT V""; ""Notes""
- Notes:
- A play.
- Translation of: Gli straccioni.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780889208650
- 0889208654
- OCLC:
- 144144853
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