In the canon
Four Comedies
Carlo Goldoni
- Form
- Form Play
- Year
- Year 1747
- Originally in
- Originally in Italian
- Pages
- Pages 350
Venice at Carnival, and a lawyer who has walked away from the courts for the playhouse is quietly taking the masks off Italian comedy. For two centuries the actors had improvised around fixed types, the miser and the braggart and the ravenous servant, the same business handed down like furniture.
Plague on my disposition! I cannot continue angry as long as I would.
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