The scruffy scoundrels
(gli straccioni)
Annibal Caro
Résumé
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.
Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | NUMERIQUE | |
Éditeur(s) | Wilfrid Laurier University Press | |
Auteur(s) | Annibal Caro | |
Parution | 03/06/1981 | 03/06/1981 |
Nb. de pages | - | 126 |
Contenu | - |
PDF |
EAN13 | 9780889201033 |
9780889208650 |
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