The Veteran «(Parlamento de Ruzante)» and Weasel «(Bilora)»
Two One-Act Renaissance Plays
Will be published approx. on 1. August 1995
Book
Hardback
152 pages
978-0-8204-2700-3 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first scholarly translation-study in English of the Parlamento de Ruzante ('The Veteran') and Bilora ('Weasel'). These two one-act renaissance plays, set and performed around 1530 in Venice, are remarkable for their linguistic and gestural vitality, brutal humour, psychological penetration and controversial topicality. Written in rustic Paduan, Venetian and Bergamask, they are the central achievement of Angelo Beolco (Ruzante), who is increasingly recognized as the most significant playwright of the Italian Renaissance.
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The Editor: Ronnie Ferguson is lecturer in Italian Studies at Lancaster University. He was educated at the universities of Glasgow and St. Andrews, and has published on the Italian Renaissance and on language and society in Italy. He is the author of Italian False Friends and of the first English translation-study of Ruzante's La Moscheta.