Word: gozzi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...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 on the modern stage, and the particular piece which the Dramatic club has chosen has never...
...Macgowan was instrumental in the choice of "The Orange Comedy" for production by the Dramatic Club this fall. This play, an adaptation by Gilbert Seldes '14, from the eighteenth century Italian original by Carlo Gozzi, has never been played in America...
...early eighteenth century Italian comedy was flourishing, but was written and produced in slap-stick style, with stock characters and stereo typed jokes. Gozzi broke from this familiar fashion, and while he kept most of the stock characters, like Harlequin and Pantaloon, he wove around them a romantic story, taken from the Arabian Nights and embellished with a good deal of humor not entirely of the slapstick variety. His work is in some sense the flower of the Comedie del Arte of early Italian drama, and it-will be interesting to see on the modern stage his combination...