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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154758403321

Autore

Caro Annibal <1507-1566.>

Titolo

The scruffy scoundrels (Gli straccioni) / / Annibal Caro ; translated with an introduction and notes by Massimo Ciavolella and Donald Beecher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ontario, : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1980

ISBN

0-88920-865-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (126 p.)

Collana

Carleton Renaissance plays in translation

Altri autori (Persone)

CiavolellaMassimo <1942->

BeecherDonald

Disciplina

852/.4

Soggetti

Italian fiction

Italian literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A play.

Translation of: Gli straccioni.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""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""

Sommario/riassunto

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.