by Carlo Goldoni · Newton Compton Editori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788879830645
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«La locandiera» is the three-act comedy by Carlo Goldoni, published by Newton Compton Editori in paperback (100 pages, in Italian).
Mirandolina runs an inn and manages her suitors with cunning: a marquis, a count, and a knight who boasts of not being able to stand women. With wit and coquetry, she reverses the rules of courtship and maintains her independence; the play criticizes male vanity and celebrates female intelligence.
The play premiered at the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice in 1753; this 1993 edition is part of the Tascabili economici Newton collection, edited by Giovanni Antonucci with the complete text.
Intended for students of Italian and for readers of eighteenth-century classical theatre.
Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty. His plays offered his contemporaries images of themselves, often dramatizing the lives, values, and conflicts of the emerging middle classes. Though he wrote in French and Italian, his plays make rich use of the Venetian language, regional vernacular, and colloquialisms. Goldoni also wrote under the pen name and title Polisseno Fegeio, Pastor Arcade, which he claimed in his memoirs the "Arcadians of Rome" bestowed on him.
