The Scruffy Scoundrels: (Gli Straccioni)

By Annibal Caro and Marziano Guglielminetti

Book Overview

The Scruffy Scoundrels by Annibal Caro offers the student, scholar, and general reader a sixteenth-century masterpiece in modern English translation. From one vantage point, The Scruffy Scoundrels would appear to be no more than a series of unrelated scenes and sketches grouped around a highly conventionalized and loosely structured love plot: the arrival of Pilucca and Tindaro in Rome abounding in topical references; the appearance of the two ragged brothers so arbitrarily related to the rest of the events of the play; the love squabble between two servants that leads to Nuta's memorably comic invective; the stock farcical routines of the Mirandola episodes; the long pathetic tale of Tindaro so little of which actually takes place on the stage. There is a sense, however, in which each scene contains its own ethos and milieu and hails from a particular comic genre, each with its own topoi and character types. This efficient management of plot is simply a measure of Caro's comic genius.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 088920103X
• ISBN13: 9780889201033
• Release Date: June 1981
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.5" x 6.8"