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Carlo Goldoni’s The Year of Sixteen Comedies. Publishing principles
https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2024-4-131-143
Abstract
The article announces the first exclusively scholarly edition of Goldoni’s works in Russian, which is being prepared by A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the RAS. The Year of Sixteen Comedies [God shestnadtsati komediy] constitutes an important milestone in Goldoni’s oeuvre: the playwright experiments with new genre variants and challenges French comedy to an artistic competition, as well as produces a play completely free from masked characters. As if to underscore the significance of the new theatrical season, Goldoni opens with a manifesto drama The Comical Theatre. Interestingly, The Year of Sixteen Comedies has never been published as an entire collection, even in Italian editions of Goldoni’s complete works. As none of Goldoni’s original manuscripts have survived and the scholars’ textual criticism is based on printed works, the author discusses the history of the plays’ authorized editions and explains why, of any two possible versions of the text, the translator chooses the one that meets the dramatist’s final instructions. Concluding the article is a characteristic of existing translations and arguments in favour of their replacement.
About the Author
M. L. Andreev
A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences ; School of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Mikhail L. Andreev, Doctor of Philology, Academician of the RAS
25A/1 Povarskaya St., Moscow, 121069
82 Vernadsky Av., Moscow, 119571
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Andreev M.L. Carlo Goldoni’s The Year of Sixteen Comedies. Publishing principles. Voprosy literatury. 2024;(4):131-143. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2024-4-131-143
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