Questions tagged [the-coffee-shop]
Questions about the comedy 'La bottega del caffè' ("The Coffee Shop", 1750–1751) by Carlo Goldoni. Use with the tags [carlo-goldoni] and [italian-language].
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Why would Goldoni have wanted to allude to a treatise on thermal waters in "La bottega del caffè"?
I managed to find a copy of the critical edition edited by Roberta Turchi of Goldoni's La bottega del caffè. In this book, I found a note that caught my attention. It is a commentary regarding this ...
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Is the fact that "La bottega del caffè" is an ensemble comedy an innovation by Goldoni?
Reading La bottega del caffè, one striking fact is that if you ask who the main characters are, the answer is that there are none. It is truly what we would call today an ensemble piece: there are ...
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Did Goldoni decide to set the action of "La bottega del caffè" during a Venetian carnival for the sake of verisimilitude?
I know that Goldoni is the great reformer of Italian theater, who transformed the 'commedia dell'arte' into
true and ‘modern’ theatre texts, entirely scripted, with the various roles defined and ...
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