Five Tales for the Theatre

Name: Five Tales for the Theatre
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ISBN: 9780226305806

ISBN-10: 0226305805

ISBN-13: 9780226305806

Edition: 1989

Authors: Carlo Gozzi, Albert Bermel, Ted Emery, Ted Emery, Ted Emery

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For Count Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806), theater was a fabulous world apart, in which human beings, statues, and animals change places by magical transformations. Gozzi's stage becomes a multiscenic home for adventures, loves, enmities, and dazzling visual effects. This collection brings together for the first time modern English translations of five of Gozzi's most famous plays: The Raven, The King Stag, Turandot, The Serpent Woman, and The Green Bird, each annotated by the translators and preceded by the author's preface. Ted Emery's Introduction places Gozzi in his social and historical context, tracing his world view in both the content and the form of his tales. In the ten works he called…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/15/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Introduction


Carlo Gozzi in Context



The Raven


A Tragicomic Tale for the Theatre in Five Acts


Notes


The King Stag


A Tragicomic Tale for the Theatre in Three Acts


Notes


Turandot


A Tragicomic Tale of China for the Theatre in Five Acts


Notes


The Serpent Woman


A Tragicomic Tale for the Theatre in Three Acts


Notes


The Green Bird


A Philosophic Tale for the Theatre in Five Acts


Notes


Afterword