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CLASSICAL COMEDY 1508-1786 IBD

LEGENDA
10 / 2022
9781839540974
Anglès

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We may recognize similarities between comedies by Moliÿre, Marivaux, Goldoni and Beaumarchais, but it is not fully appreciated that these playwrights belong to a single continuous genre of comedy inspired by Plautus and Terence. In fact comedies which we can call Classical were first composed by Humanists such as Ludovico Ariosto, and their format was quickly taken up by improvising actors of what we now call commedia dellâÇÖarte.áThe erudite and artisan strains soon mingled, and created a series of audience expectations in Europe as to what comedies should contain. A dialogue developed over nearly three centuries between stage comedies in Italy and France, with the two traditions regularly consulting, and borrowing from, each other.áComic opera contributed to the mix, and the story reaches its climax and its end with Le nozze di Figaro by Da Ponte and Mozart.Richard Andrews graduated in Italian and French from St JohnâÇÖs College, Oxford, where his personal tutor was the Moliÿre specialist W.G. Moore.áHe is Emeritus Professor Of Italian at the University of Leeds.

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