{"product_id":"secret-sharers-in-italian-comedy-9780822317609","title":"Secret Sharers in Italian Comedy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eModern vernacular comedy took shape in early sixteenth-century Italy with the many plays adapted from and modeled on Plautine New Comedy. This work demonstrates how Italian dramatists reacted to the wide success of this genre with a counterparadigm, a comedy that exploits secrecy as form. It examines this major development in Italian theater.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Cope has defined a counter-generic genre that sharpens and refines our understanding of the distinctive Italian contribution to the history of theater. His analysis is shrewd, and his careful close readings of a large number of plays make this fascinating theater of complicity available to readers with little or no Italian. Beyond that, he provokes endless reflection on theater itself as a metaphor of the knowable, and of the ways in which that metaphor was transformed between the early humanistic revivals of Plautus and Terence, and the rise of Gozzi.”—Walter Stephens, Dartmouth College\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments        ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction        1\u003cbr\u003e Il Padano to Il Veneto        17\u003cbr\u003e Siena: Piccolomini's \u003ci\u003eDialogo \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eRozzi Rusticali\u003c\/i\u003e        49\u003cbr\u003e Florence        75\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIl Manco male\u003c\/i\u003e: Maggi's Meneghino in Milan        117\u003cbr\u003e Goldoni        139\u003cbr\u003e Afterword on Secrecy and Literary Genres        185\u003cbr\u003e Notes        191\u003cbr\u003e Index        217","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406017667415,"sku":"9780822317609","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822317609.jpg?v=1730494257","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/secret-sharers-in-italian-comedy-9780822317609","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}