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Item Details
| Title:
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SCRUFFY SCOUNDRELS
GLI STRACCIONI |
| By: |
Annibal Caro, Massimo Ciavolella (Editor), Donald Beecher (Editor) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£31.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
088920103X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780889201033 |
| Publisher: |
WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
28 September, 1981 |
| Pages: |
123 |
| Translated from: |
Italian |
| Synopsis: |
"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. |
| Publication: |
Canada |
| Imprint: |
Wilfrid Laurier University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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