The Scruffy Scoundrels
Author
Original Work
Translators
Editor
Massimo Ciavolella & Donald Beecher
Language
Year
2017
Publisher
Country
United States
Pages
216
ISBN
9781599103334
THE SCRUFFY SCOUNDRELS(Gli Straccioni) is a masterpiece of humanist playwriting. Caro wrote his play in 1543 and set it firmly in the streets of early modern Rome, making it both a social satire and an endorsement of the civic and legal reforms of the Farnese pope, Paul III. Drama imitates and helps construct life. In the end, the legal order imposed on the fictive Rome of the stage anticipates the new social order the pope intended for the marble, brick and mortar city. Caro extends the rangeand variety of sophisticated farce, adapting contemporary stage conventions, based on the classical Roman plays of Plautus and Terence, to his acute observation of Roman life in the 1540s. The “scruffy scoundrels” genre meets Boccaccio’s farce and an elaborate love story borrowed from ancient Greek romance. Edited and translated by Massimo Ciavolella & Donald Beecher Introduction, bibliography, plot summary, notes.— Google Books
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