Goldoni in Paris - La Gloire Et Le Malentendu

Jessica Goodman sheds new light on Carlo Goldoni's experience as a dramatic author in 1760s Paris, and on his critical reactions to that experience. She draws on contemporary Com¿e-Italienne archives to offer the most comprehensive existing account of this oft-neglected theatre and its authorial relations.

List of contents

• Comédie-Italienne timeline


• Goldoni timeline


• Prologue


• Introduction


• I: The strange case of Carlo Goldoni


• II: Mapping theatrical Paris


• III: Being an author in eighteenth-century theatre


• IV: The rules of the game: authorship at the Comédie-Italienne


• V: Goldoni's dilemma: authorship and authority


• VI: Goldoni's Parisian career


• VII: The Mémoires and their legacy


• VIII: The afterlife of an author


• Conclusion - La gloire, malentendue


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Jessica Goodman was educated at a state school in Cardiff, and studied French and Italian at Worcester College, Oxford. Following a Masters in the European Enlightenment, she completed her DPhil under the supervision of Alain Viala, before taking up a Junior Research Fellowship at Clare College, Cambridge. She returned to Oxford and joined St Catherine's College as Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow in 2015. She specialises in the field of eighteenth-century literature and thought, with a particular interest in the ways in which authors create a public image of themselves, both in their lifetime and after their death.

Summary

Jessica Goodman sheds new light on Carlo Goldoni's experience as a dramatic author in 1760s Paris, and on his critical reactions to that experience. She draws on contemporary Comédie-Italienne archives to offer the most comprehensive existing account of this oft-neglected theatre and its authorial relations.

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Jessica Goodman, Jessica Goodman, Jessica (St Catherine's College Goodman, Jessica (St Catherine''s College Goodman, Jessica Mary Goodman
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.2017
• EAN: 9780198796626
• ISBN: 978-0-19-879662-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs; Oxford Modern Languages & Lite; Oxford Modern Languages & Lite; Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, Literary studies: general, Italian, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights