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L'AVARE JALOUX

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À Naples, au milieu du XVIIIe siècle, que se passe-t-il dans la maison de Pantalon, devenue le refuge des extravagances ? Contrairement à la tradition, Pantalon a quarante ans à peine, et il n’est pas marchand, mais homme d’affaires. Marié depuis dix ans à Eufemia, il en est toujours amoureux, il en est même très jaloux et la fait vivre presqu’enfermée. Mais il aime l’or, aussi, et en plus de ses affaires, il fait le changeur en trichant sur la valeur des pièces et le prêteur avec des taux usuriers. Or voilà qu’un jeune seigneur s’obstine à vouloir, selon la mode, « servir » Eufemia qui s’y refuse absolument… Telle est la comédie shakespearienne par laquelle s’ouvre en 1753, la troisième phase de la carrière théâtrale de Carlo Goldoni, le réformateur du théâtre italien.

168 pages, Paperback

First published October 7, 2012

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Carlo Goldoni

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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.

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