by Carlo Goldoni · Non Basic Stock Line · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788804236160
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«La Locandiera» is the play by Carlo Goldoni in an Italian paperback edition (175 pages).
Goldoni's comedy centres on Mirandolina, a shrewd innkeeper who fends off the attentions of a count and a marquis. When a knight who boasts of despising women arrives at her inn, she decides to teach him a lesson with her seductive wiles, in a plot about pride, power and female independence.
The play premiered at the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice in 1753. This edition belongs to the Oscar Classici collection and includes an introduction by Giorgio Strehler.
Aimed at students of Italian literature and readers of eighteenth-century classical theatre who want to approach Goldoni in his original language.
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.
