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...spirit of the early eighteenth-century Italian comedy will tread the boards of Brattle Hall on the evenings of December 6, 7, and 8, when the Dramatic Club will present "The Orange Comedy," an adaptation by Gilbert Seldes '14 from a comedy of Carlo Gozzi...
Gozzi was one of the most prominent exponents of the Comedie del Arte in the Italian drama of the eighteenth century. "The Love of the Three Oranges," the original from which Mr. Seldes made his adaptation, is a sort of fairy tale, with all the fantastic stock characters of early comedy. Mr. Seldes taking the idea of the Italian play, has fashioned an amusing burlesque of modern customs...
Tobias George Smollett, the doctor who looked at an dwrote about various aspects of life of the eighteenth century, was born in Dumbartonshire, a Scotch county in the year 1721. At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to a surgeon of Glasgow, but three years later, following the example of Thomson, set forth for England with his first and worst literary venture "The Regicide...
...next production was a sort of relapse. Nothing is more difficult to do well than Italian comedies of the eighteenth century. And in selecting Carlo Goldini's "The Liar," the Dramatic Club failed to realize that the Anglo-Saxon audiences to which it played could not easily catch the spirit of the gay Venetian. Goldini is not done now--even by the most artistically advanced of professionals; for an amateur organization he is almost impossible...
Three years ago the Club produced Carlo Goldini's "The Liar". This eighteenth century Italian comedy is a difficult piece to play and a difficult piece for a modern audience to appreciate. This fall another eighteenth century Italian comedy will find its way onto the Brattle Hall boards, with "The Orange Comedy", an adaptation by Gilbert Seldes '14 from the Italian original by Carlo Gozzi, a contemporary of Goldini's. Gozzi wove around the stock characters of early slapstick comedy a story from the Arabian Nights, welding together the comic and the romantic elements. The result is something unique...