TRAGICOMEDY OF CARLO GOLDONI
Journal Title: Studia Litterarum - Year 2016, Vol 1, Issue 3
Abstract
Goldoni’s tragicomedies while being less popular and lesser studied than his comedies nonetheless provide us with rich material for the study of the genre’s general properties. Goldoni’s tragicomedies fall into two groups: in his plays written in the 1730s, the author but revises conventional repertoire tradition of commedia dell arte; in his plays of the 1750s, he makes an attempt to reform the genre itself. The latter group forms three peculiar trilogies: passions, sincerities, and hypocrisies. In this part of his creative work, Goldoni remains true to the study of the character as the main object of dramatic representation. However, whereas in comedies, the character is the major impediment to the achievement of the plotline goals, in tragicomedies, it plays the opposite function: leads the dramatic collision to the happy conclusion. The change of function marks the shift within the generic framework.
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Mikhail L. Andreev
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- DOI 10.22455/2500-4247-2016-1-3-4-70-81
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