Pamela Nubile Pamela Maritata
ISBN 78-88-32193-49-7
Language: Italian
Publisher: Paolo Loffredo Editore Srl
Description
Pamela Nubile Pamela Maritata
In the european imaginary during the middle XVIII century, the figure of the virtuous servant Pamela bursts with the strength and effectiveness of the myth, on the wake of the novel “Pamela or the rewarded virtue” (1740) by Samuel Richardson.
The Neapolitan playwright Francesco Cerlone, for so long labelled ad Goldoni’s Neapolitan epigone, has written on that two comedies full of plot twists and adventures, eceltic and heterodox compared to the principles of the Goldonian reform, in which the dialectical writing is alternating to a literal Italian, far from the used one.
The diptych Pamela unmarried-Pamela married, right because of the comparison with the Goldonian dramaturgical and linguistic model, is a singular case in the wide Cerlonian production and is here showed for the first time in a critical edition with linguistic commentary.
Reading the texts and the language analysis allow to know better the most important Neapolitan author from his time. He had the merit of broadening the horizons of a popular theatre which was living a crisi, dried up by the prolongation of a “baracconesque” spectacle, proposing new plots and unpublished characters and imposing a different way od playing theatre, marked by a stenuous work on the text and on the staging.
