Il Campiello

by Carlo Goldoni

This Goldoni comedy recounts the matrimonial scheming, gossip, and games enlivening the daily activity of a bustling but poor Venetian piazza where gaming, dancing and pandemonium reign. The haughty Gasparina catches the attention and interest of an attractive visiting Count. Zaretta and Gnese are two years too young to marry as their mothers desperately desire. Lucietta is not trusted by her jealous and handsome fiancé, Anzoletto, and the toothless mothers of all are busily plotting for husbands of their own. Squabbles run throughout this madcap story of the square, are silenced by a wedding feast, and erupt again as the festivities draw to a close.

"The coarse Latin flavor of [the characters'] scraps is nicely captured by Richard Nelson's new adaptation, in suitably vulgar modern English." —James Lardner, Washington Post

Genres: Theatre, Classics, Italy, Italian Literature

90 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1756

About the author

Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty. His plays offered his contemporaries images of themselves, often dramatizing the lives, values, and conflicts of the emerging middle classes. Though he wrote in French and Italian, his plays make rich use of the Venetian language, regional vernacular, and colloquialisms. Goldoni also wrote under the pen name and title "Polisseno Fegeio, Pastor Arcade," which he claimed in his memoirs the "Arcadians of Rome" bestowed on him.

Reviews

[Paolo D'Amelio · Rating 4 out of 5]

E' una "commedia di ambiente" tra le più riuscite del Goldoni... Non c'è un personaggio o una vicenda che superi le altre in importanza ma una giustapposizione di scene tutte accomunate dal sorriso bonario con cui l'autore guarda al popolo ed alle sue minuterie... Mi è parso di avvertire da parte sua anche un po' di nostalgia per quel matriarcato che la cultura ufficiale di solito rinnega...

[Carlo Mayer]

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[Elisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

注释太少扣一星（我一般不会这么做，但此处已经导致相当一部分文本我根本看不懂），附录Strehler的导演札记加1000000颗星。倘若不读附录，实际上正文也只如未读而已。GS的解说如拨云见日般帮助我这个戏剧文盲看到了哥尔多尼对舞台空间的政治化运用（剧中有从楼上用篮子把东西吊到楼下的情节，也许当代人在那不勒斯电影里看到它只觉得活泼有趣，但其实它是一套严厉、高效、实际上对底层社会的完整性已经不可或缺的父权结构的反映），以及他描述一个他终身没有也不可能真正理解的阶层时准确到不可思议的分寸感。这种准确不是来自理性的思辨，而是来自人性的诚实、审慎与多情。【然而我还是不能理解为什么《一仆二主》的方言那么好懂而注释那么多，本篇这么难注释却这么少（在我看来这种方言强度逐句出串讲都不为过），难道编者自己也看不懂吗摔

PS 虽然这部里并没有反派，但情节仍然是：脑子正常的威尼斯人们成功把一小撮脑子不太正常的那不勒斯人赶走了。🙂 （这个故事里倒是没有都灵人可能因为它是个阶级故事而18世纪都灵不符合观众对傻X贵族的刻板印象吧。）