TY  - BOOK
AU  - Caro,Annibal
AU  - Beecher,Donald
AU  - Ciavolella,Massimo
TI  - The Scruffy Scoundrels: A Dual-Language Edition
T2  - Renaissance and Modern Plays Series
SN  - 9781599103341
AV  - PN1785 .C376 2017 
U1  - 809.20094 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Italica Press
KW  - European drama-Renaissance, 1450-1600-History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- _ftnref11 -- _GoBack -- _GoBack
N2  - Annibal Caro wrote The Scruffy Scoundrels (Gli Straccioni) in Rome in early 1543 for his patron Pierluigi Farnese, the eldest son of Pope Paul III. Its performance was delayed, then canceled after the death of its patron. The play, which survives in a unique manuscript, is a masterpiece of humanist playwriting. The two "scruffy scoundrels," the love squabble between servants, the stock farcical routines, the comic invectives and the long pathetic side-tales all derive from the forms, plots and characters of ancient Roman comedy. Caro's play, set firmly in the streets of early modern Rome, is both a social satire and an endorsement of the civic and legal reforms promoted by the Farnese pope, Paul III. Introduction, bibliography, plot summary, notes
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