L''anconitana - The Woman From Ancona

Informationen zum Autor Nancy Dersofi is Professor of Italian at Bryn Mawr and author of Arcadia and the Stage: An Introduction to the Dramatic Art of Angelo Beolco! called Ruzante (1978). Klappentext In Italy Angelo Beolco! called Ruzante! is recognized as the most original of the Italian Renaissance dramatists. However! his plays are hardly known in English! mainly because few translators have been able to take on the Pavano dialect Ruzante employed for the character he played. With Nancy Dersofi's vigorous and faithful translation of "L'Anconitana!" presented opposite the authoritative version of the Italian text! Ruzante's most successful play is now available to English-speaking audiences for the first time. Zusammenfassung In Italy, Ruzante is recognized as the most original of the Italian Renaissance dramatists; but his plays are hardly known in English. This is a translation of his most successful play, "L'Anconitana", set opposite the Italian version of the play.

Product details

• Authors: Ruzante, Angelo Beolco Ruzante
• Assisted by: Nancy Dersofi (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.09.1994
• EAN: 9780520085268
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08526-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Biblioteca Italiana; Biblioteca Italiana
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; DRAMA / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, Literary studies: general, Italian, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Plays, Playscripts, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form